Datapipe Meets Enterprise Demand for HPC Cloud; Guaranteed Performance Storage Fueled by SolidFire

JERSEY CITY, NJ--(Marketwired - Dec 3, 2013) - Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, today announced that it has selected SolidFire, the leader in all-flash storage systems for next generation data centers, as the primary storage system for its Stratosphere^® Cloud platform. The Stratosphere^® Cloud platform was designed to meet the increasing demands of current and prospective enterprise customers, whose businesses depend on guaranteed performance and reliability.

Datapipe's Stratosphere^® Cloud platform delivers support for a wide range of customer solutions including high performance computing (HPC), managed private cloud, as well as elastic self-service public and private cloud offerings. All offerings are accessible via the Stratosphere^® Cloud Management Portal or programmatically via API. Stratosphere^® enables enterprises to solve complex business problems and drive new revenues using popular big data applications and NoSQL databases in a secure and predictable high performance cloud.

"The integration of SolidFire's fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) into the CloudStack management framework was a key driver behind our decision to move forward with the technology," said Robb Allen, CEO, Datapipe. "Having SolidFire as the primary storage system for Stratosphere^® allows us to deliver guaranteed performance storage and services catered to the enterprise."

SolidFire's all-SSD storage platform is the only technology capable of delivering guaranteed performance to thousands of applications within a shared infrastructure. Within both their public and private cloud offerings, Datapipe customers can take advantage of SolidFire's ability to manage performance independent of capacity and adjust application speed instantly and on demand. "Within our SolidFire-based offerings we have completely eliminated the need to reallocate or migrate data to gain performance. Customers can simply turn the performance dial and the required resources are immediately available," said Allen.

"The ability to support and guarantee both HPC applications and general cloud workloads from a single storage system makes Datapipe extremely agile in responding to the changing application demands of their customers," said Stuart Oliver, Senior Cloud Program Manager, SolidFire. "We look forward to helping them drive their unique solution set into the marketplace."

Enterprises interested in Datapipe's Stratosphere^® Cloud services should contact Datapipe to talk to an experienced technical consultant.

About Datapipe

Datapipe is the single provider solution for optimizing, managing and securing mission-critical IT services for the enterprise. Areas of expertise include private and public cloud, HIPAA, PCI compliance, security, database, network, storage and disaster recovery. Datapipe operates data centers in influential technical and financial markets including New York Metro, Ashburn VA, Silicon Valley, Iceland, London, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. For more information about Datapipe visit www.datapipe.com. Follow Datapipe on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

About SolidFire

SolidFire is the market leader in all-flash storage systems designed for next generation data centers. Leveraging SolidFire's all-flash architecture, with volume-level Quality-of-Service (QoS) controls, customers now can guarantee storage performance to thousands of applications within a shared infrastructure. Coupling this functionality with in-line data reduction techniques and system-wide automation results in substantial capital and operating cost savings relative to traditional storage systems.

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