Case Study: RSAWEB achieves up to 5× faster guaranteed cloud performance and 15-second tier changes with NetApp SolidFire

RSAWEB Guarantees Faster Performance to Help Enterprise Cloud Customers Succeed Online

RSAWEB, a fast-growing South African hosting and connectivity provider, faced noisy‑neighbor performance issues as customers moved business‑critical workloads like databases to its multitenant cloud. To sustain rapid cloud adoption in the region and deliver predictable, enterprise‑grade performance, RSAWEB needed a next‑generation storage architecture that could guarantee fast, consistent I/O across thousands of applications.

By deploying NetApp SolidFire with volume‑level QoS controls (with ShapeBlue support), RSAWEB eliminated noisy‑neighbor contention and immediately boosted customer response times by 4–5×. The platform also cut tier‑change time from about 2 hours to 15 seconds, enabled nondisruptive scale‑out growth, reduced rack/power costs, and let customers handle huge traffic spikes and rapid scaling—driving measurable business outcomes such as 23% traffic growth for marquee customers.

RSAWEB

Allan Boyle

Chief Operating Officer