Case Study: Hosted Network achieves scalable, QoS‑guaranteed high‑performance DaaS with NetApp SolidFire

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Hosted Network, an Australia-based cloud service provider, offers white‑label VMware Horizon Desktop-as-a-Service to partners across Australia and New Zealand. As it expanded into VDI, legacy and hybrid storage couldn’t handle the intensive, multi‑tenant I/O, leaving Hosted Network with scaling, performance‑guarantee and management challenges that threatened service reliability and cost efficiency.

Hosted Network deployed SolidFire SF3010 all‑flash storage (48TB effective) with per‑volume QoS, always‑on inline deduplication, a scale‑out node‑by‑node architecture and REST API automation. The result: predictable, guaranteed desktop performance (eliminating boot‑storms and noisy‑neighbor issues), high availability even through node loss, faster automated provisioning via VAAI and APIs, reduced storage footprint and lower TCO, and the ability to grow infrastructure granularly alongside the business.

Hosted Network

Ben Town

Managing Director