Case Study: Internet Solutions halves operational costs and reduces procurement time threefold with NetApp SolidFire

Offering Performance-Based Tiering Services in Africa with NetApp SolidFire

Internet Solutions is a Pan‑African converged communications provider operating in 14 countries (with international points of presence) that needed a more cost‑effective, flexible storage platform to support rapidly growing cloud services and granular, performance‑based tiering. Their legacy arrays required frequent, costly migrations, led to capacity‑planning pain, long procurement cycles, and rising operational overhead.

By deploying NetApp SolidFire all‑flash storage (integrated with VMware and OpenStack) with node‑by‑node scaling and portable nodes between data centers, IS eliminated forklift upgrades, sped provisioning from months to weeks, and enabled instant performance tiers. The rollout cut procurement time roughly 3×, reduced operational overhead by about 50%, shrank storage footprint up to 5×, and delivered predictable QoS and faster cloud deployments across multiple data centers.

Internet Solutions

Andrew Green

Cloud Infrastructure Manager