Case Study: ServerCentral achieves elastic, highly available, cost-effective software-defined storage with Nexenta (NexentaStor)

Managed Software-Defined Storage by ServerCentral and Nexenta

ServerCentral, a fast-growing Chicago-based IT infrastructure provider serving clients like Shopify, Discovery and New Relic, needed a more elastic, highly available storage platform to meet bursty, mission-critical demands without forcing customers to rearchitect. After evaluating many options, the team sought software-defined storage that could deliver HA, fast replication, consistent performance and manageable costs.

They deployed NexentaStor on certified commodity hardware, gaining quick replication, seamless reconfiguration with no downtime, and rapid installation. The managed Nexenta solution scaled across multiple locations (now managing petabytes of data), delivered enterprise HA and performance, and reduced storage costs dramatically—about four to eight times cheaper than comparable traditional solutions.

ServerCentral

George Nelson

Manager of Managed Services