The challenge
With its legacy storage subscription up for renewal, Xpeedio wanted a modern, agile platform with low latency and simple operation for a large virtual machine estate, without giving up power or features.
Customer story · Managed services and private cloud · Sweden
Xpeedio optimises mixed workloads with AiRE's flexibility.
A seamless migration from a legacy unit to a next-generation unified data platform, AiRE.
- AiRE IntelligentFiler 3128
- Custom workload profiles and policies
- Always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots
- GDPR-compliant private cloud
Customer Xpeedio
Managed services and private cloud
Sweden
binero.com (opens the customer’s website in a new tab)Mixed
Workloads optimised per data set with custom profiles and policies
STORViX customer story — Xpeedio
Self-healing
Always on, with point-in-time snapshots, behind a GDPR-compliant private cloud
STORViX customer story — Xpeedio
Less admin
Time on administrative tasks, more on value-added activities
STORViX customer story — Xpeedio
The solution
An AiRE IntelligentFiler 3128 that optimises each data set for its workload through intelligent profiles and policies, with always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots protecting Xpeedio's private cloud.
- AiRE IntelligentFiler 3128
- Custom workload profiles and policies
- Always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots
- GDPR-compliant private cloud
The situation
As Xpeedio faced the renewal of its legacy system subscription, the company sought a modern and agile data storage solution. It learned of STORViX through a business partner and was impressed by AiRE's flexibility, simplicity and performance in mixed-workload scenarios.
Asked what matters most when choosing a data storage solution, Xpeedio's IT manager Tomas Buckau answered: "Latency, ease of use and accessibility. We have virtual machines and a lot of them. The solution has to be simple while still being more powerful and feature-rich than a basic solution."
What was deployed
One of the main reasons Xpeedio chose an AiRE IntelligentFiler model 3128 was its flexibility in supporting mixed workloads. That flexibility rests on AiRE's ability to optimise data sets automatically for a wide range of workloads, through intelligent management of custom profiles and policies. As a result, Xpeedio can provide tailored solutions to its customers and deploy new innovations rapidly.
"We always aim to have the newest and best technology in the market so we can provide our customers with the best solution." John Josefsson, CEO and Sales Executive, Xpeedio.
AiRE's integrated data protection, with always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots, helps Xpeedio improve the efficiency and sustainability of its data protection process. That is crucial for high security and GDPR compliance, especially for Xpeedio's private cloud, while meeting uptime commitments to demanding customers.
What changed
AiRE's simple and consistent user experience across multiple classes of memory and mixed workloads let Xpeedio get up and running with the new solution quickly. It also lets the company "spend less time on administrative tasks, saving our team a lot of headache and enabling them to focus more on value-added activities," according to Tomas Buckau.
The icing on the cake, in line with one of Xpeedio's key requirements, is that AiRE does not compromise on performance or features to achieve that simplicity. On the contrary, its optimisation capabilities let Xpeedio tailor performance, redundancy and efficiency to a variety of workloads, such as its many virtual machines.
About Xpeedio
Xpeedio was founded in 2003 and has followed the ever-changing IT landscape closely ever since. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, the managed service provider's mission is to simplify everything related to IT for its customers. Xpeedio provides a secure, GDPR-compliant private cloud and a comprehensive portfolio of managed IT services with a focus on support, operations and monitoring, with 24/7 support delivered directly from Sweden.
The name derives from the Greek "expedio", to liberate, altered a little to sound cooler, in line with the aim of liberating customers from costly and time-consuming IT tasks. Xpeedio became part of Binero in January 2024, and the partnership with STORViX continues under the Binero name.
Results
What was measured afterwards
- Mixed workloads optimised automatically, data set by data set, with custom profiles and policies
- Less time on administrative tasks, so the team focuses on value-added work
- Always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots protecting a GDPR-compliant private cloud
“Latency, ease of use and accessibility. We have virtual machines and a lot of them. The solution has to be simple while still being more powerful and feature-rich than a basic solution.”
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