Case Study: Katapult achieves high-performance, cost-effective cloud storage with VAST Data

Vast, Nvidia And Krystal Partner To Create “katapult”, The Uk’s Homegrown Hypercloud

Katapult, the UK homegrown hypercloud from Krystal Hosting, needed a reliable, scalable, and affordable all-flash infrastructure to compete with AWS, Azure, and GCP while supporting rapid customer growth. The team wanted high performance, linear scalability, and a lower cost per TB than the major cloud providers could offer.

VAST Data, together with NVIDIA networking, provided Katapult with VAST Universal Storage on an all-flash DASE architecture to power Katapult Files and shared storage services. The solution delivered consistently high performance, simple operations, and better economics through QLC flash, data reduction, and erasure coding, enabling Katapult to offer premium cloud file storage at a lower price than hyperscalers while still maintaining profitability to reinvest in development.

Katapult

Simon Blackler

Chief Executive Officer