Case Study: Cloud Carib achieves 50% faster application performance and 65% lower storage CapEx with VMware vSAN

Cloud Carib Propels Performance, Productivity and Growth with VMware Virtual SAN Solution

Cloud Carib, a Nassau, Bahamas–based cloud service provider and IT professional services firm, faced rapid growth that exposed limits in storage capacity, inconsistent application performance, rising CapEx/OpEx, and operational complexity from adding external SAN/NAS arrays. To address predictable I/O bottlenecks, noisy-neighbor latency, and the need for simpler, more scalable infrastructure, Cloud Carib evaluated and selected VMware vSAN (VMware Virtual SAN) as its software-defined storage solution.

Using VMware vSAN, Cloud Carib converted to a hyper-converged, fully virtualized storage architecture deployed on Cisco UCS hosts, cutting deployment time and administration overhead while enabling linear scale-out. The VMware vSAN implementation delivered measurable benefits: application latency and launch times improved by about 50%, upfront storage CapEx dropped ~65%, incremental and per-GB SSD/HDD costs fell 2–4x (flash cost from ~$9/GB to ~$3.50/GB), and the company eliminated $20K of external engineering fees and saved ~$32K in IT labor—supporting new services, a second data center, and faster revenue growth.

Cloud Carib

Stelios Xeroudakis

Cloud Carib