Case Study: Doner triples capacity and cuts hosting costs by 40% with Pulsant Cloud Services

Move to cloud triples capacity & cuts costs by 40%

Doner, a London-based digital agency managing high-profile clients and eCRM campaigns, was hampered by an inflexible, costly hosting partner that ran 10 SAN-backed servers in active/active mode, provided poor support and suffered a full-scale outage. Needing 100% availability, scalable capacity, strong security and a seamless migration, Doner selected Pulsant’s Cloud Services (implemented using VMware vSphere virtualization) to redesign its hosting platform.

Pulsant deployed a virtualised VMware vSphere solution on two redundant high‑capacity SANs in its Reading datacentre, mapped a full migration plan with SLAs and implemented advanced security and firewalling. As a result, Doner reduced infrastructure from 10 to 4 servers, achieved 100% availability, tripled capacity and cut hosting costs by 40%, while gaining faster, more cost‑effective web and campaign deployment with no client disruption.

Doner

Phil Hobgen

Technical Director