The challenge
Hot copies of customer VMs had to stay available around the clock through Zerto replication, with a hard sub-millisecond latency ceiling for a key account.
Customer story · Cloud services and managed security · Italy
Sub-millisecond latency for a cloud provider's most demanding tenant.
An Italian cloud and managed security provider serving more than 2,000 companies put Zerto-replicated customer VMs on all-flash AiRE with a hard latency ceiling.
- AiRE 3258
- AiRE 3282 all-flash
- Zerto replication
- FlexiPay
- SmartCARE
Sub-ms
Maximum latency on the all-flash tier for the key account
STORViX customer story — Eteria
2×
Compression factor with maximum compression enabled
STORViX customer story — Eteria
≥ 50%
Saved on the investment against the alternative
STORViX customer story — Eteria
The solution
AiRE 3258 and an all-flash 3282, integrated with Zerto, on FlexiPay with a SmartCARE plan and maximum compression enabled.
- AiRE 3258
- AiRE 3282 all-flash
- Zerto replication
- FlexiPay
- SmartCARE
The situation
Eteria provides cloud services and managed security to more than 2,000 companies in Italy. Part of that service is keeping hot copies of customer virtual machines available around the clock, replicated with Zerto, so that a failover is a decision rather than a recovery project.
One key account came with a hard requirement: maximum storage latency below one millisecond, sustained, on the replicated copies. The platform also had to make commercial sense for a provider whose margins depend on how much tenant data each unit of capacity can carry.
What was deployed
Two AiRE systems were deployed: a 3258 for the general tenant estate and an all-flash 3282 for the latency-bound workload, both integrated with Zerto for the replication layer. Maximum compression was enabled across the data sets.
The systems run on FlexiPay with a SmartCARE support plan, so Eteria carries them as a monthly operating cost with support included rather than as capital equipment.
What changed
The all-flash tier delivered sub-millisecond maximum latency for the key account. Compression halved the capacity the tenant data consumed, and Eteria reports saving at least 50 per cent on the investment compared with the alternative it evaluated.
Results
What was measured afterwards
- Sub-millisecond maximum latency achieved
- Compression factor of 2
- At least 50% saved on the investment
Source: STORViX customer story. Figures are the customer’s own as published by STORViX and have not been independently verified.
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