Case Study: Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA) achieves 100% elimination of performance issues and guaranteed millisecond transaction processing with NetApp SolidFire

We Removed 100% of Performance Issues

Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA), an IT services provider for hedge funds, private equity firms and other financial customers, was hampered by a conventional spinning‑disk storage architecture that created noisy‑neighbor and density bottlenecks. Their transaction‑processing, analytics and database workloads require millisecond responses, and the existing platform could not guarantee consistent performance or cost‑effective, scalable growth.

RFA deployed a five‑node SolidFire SF3010 all‑flash cluster with per‑volume QoS and deep VMware integration, enabling non‑disruptive, linear scale‑out and eliminating noisy‑neighbor contention. The result: guaranteed millisecond transaction processing, a 100% decrease in performance issues (translating to virtually zero help‑desk pain), reduced rack and power consumption, improved ROI, and the ability to scale capacity as needed.

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Gair Betts

Director of Sales