Case Study: RapidScale achieves up to 75% lower TCO and 3× scalable data growth with NetApp

RapidScale Lays a Foundation for Business Expansion Across the Globe

RapidScale, a managed cloud service provider with data centers in the US, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam, faced explosive unstructured data growth—more than doubling in 2017 and projected to triple within nine months—along with slow ingestion rates and high cloud backup costs that threatened its ability to scale and expand into new geographies while meeting GDPR requirements.

By deploying NetApp StorageGRID with FAS/AFF and ONTAP integration, RapidScale implemented policy-based tiering, a single global namespace, Snapshot/SnapMirror workflows, and metadata-driven compliance controls. The solution eliminated ingestion bottlenecks, cut lifecycle costs (potentially reducing TCO by up to 75%), enabled a new Veeam-as-a-Service offering, improved disaster recovery and backup economics, and positioned the company for continued global expansion.

RapidScale

William Hiatt

Chief Technology Officer