Case Study: TierPoint achieves simplified hybrid IT and seamless scaling with NetApp FlexPod (FAS & AFF)

Making Complex Cloud Services Simpler by Bringing Hybrid IT Full Circle

TierPoint is a rapidly growing cloud services provider with more than 5,000 customers and 40 data centers focused on hybrid IT. Faced with an increasingly complex mix of single-purpose devices that couldn’t scale or meet rising expectations for reliability and performance, TierPoint needed a simpler, more scalable infrastructure to deliver consistent SLAs across colocation, managed and multitenant cloud services.

TierPoint standardized on FlexPod with NetApp FAS and All Flash FAS (AFF), creating a unified storage platform that simplified management, supported automation and self-service, and enabled secure multitenancy. The deployment delivered nonstop availability with a 99.99% SLA (with a goal of five nines), over 300,000 IOPS at under 2 ms latency, non-disruptive upgrades, and easier scaling—reducing footprint and specialized skill requirements while improving performance and data protection.

TierPoint

David Hines

Vice President of Architecture and Engineering