Case Study: Mainstream achieves global cloud growth, flash performance, and up to 30% capacity savings with NetApp storage

Mainstream Blends Flash Performance and Efficiency of NetApp Storage to Grow Its Cloud Business Globally

Mainstream, based in Beograd, Serbia, is the country’s largest web-hosting provider, running multiple Tier‑3 data centers (including sites in the US and France) and supporting 800+ virtual machines and up to 30,000 HTTP requests per second. Rapid data growth (up to 300% annually), rising rich-media and analytics demand, performance pressure and increasing costs threatened its managed hosting and new mCloud public‑cloud services.

Mainstream standardized on NetApp storage with Fujitsu servers—deploying FAS systems, Data ONTAP, Flash Cache and Flash Pool plus Snapshot, cloning and deduplication—to deliver fast front‑end performance, rapid provisioning and efficient back‑end management. The result: sub‑10‑minute VM provisioning, higher performance and redundancy on demand, up to 30% storage savings through dedupe, delayed disk purchases and a scalable platform ready to expand into the EU and US.

Mainstream

Aleksandar Milosavljević

Chief Technical Officer