Case Study: Data Comfort achieves guaranteed uptime, 75% faster application performance and instant storage provisioning with NetApp SolidFire

Delivering Advanced Cloud Infrastructure Capabilities to Customers

Data Comfort, a Dutch cloud service provider, needed to guarantee uptime, immediate data access, and predictable performance for customers while managing explosive internal growth (about 30% per month). The company risked losing customers if it couldn’t deliver reliable, fast, and scalable infrastructure for business-critical workloads.

Working with NetApp, Data Comfort deployed a SolidFire-based cloud platform with per-volume QoS, IOPS-as-a-Service, and VMware vCloud Director self-provisioning—implemented in just half a day. The result: automated storage provisioning cut from 2 hours to 1 second, a key customer saw a 75% reduction in compile time (20 → 5 minutes), fast, reliable recoveries after power tests, and the ability to scale and sell predictable performance-based services.

Data Comfort

Harry Mauritz

Chief Technology Officer