Case Study: Krystal Hosting powers Katapult with all-flash cloud storage from VAST Data

Krystal Hosting - Customer Case Study

Krystal Hosting, a UK-based cloud service provider, sought to compete with large public cloud giants by launching its own high-performance cloud service, Katapult. Their challenge was to out-innovate these wealthy incumbents by delivering an all-flash platform with superior performance, near-infinite scalability, and a lower cost per terabyte than the competition. To achieve this, they needed a powerful and economical file storage solution.

VAST Data implemented its VAST Data Platform, which is built on a Disaggregated, SharedEverything (DASE) architecture and integrated with NVIDIA networking. This solution provided Krystal with consistently high all-flash performance, simple management via API, and revolutionary economics driven by QLC flash and advanced data reduction. As a result, VAST Data enabled Katapult to profitably offer a premium file service for less than the cost of competitors' disk storage, creating a key differentiator in the market.

Krystal Hosting

Simon Blackler

Chief Executive Officer