US Signal deploys InfiniBox

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Enterprise storage solutions leader, Infinidat announces US Signal, the only open-source cloud services solutions available in the United States today is deploying Infinidat’s award-winning the next-generation InfiniBox™ SSA G4 all-flash solution as the storage backbone of its groundbreaking Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) product − OpenCloud.

“US Signal’s OpenCloud is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that revolutionizes the cloud hosting market by providing the performance, cost certainty, security, and flexible consumption that customers demand to run their critical enterprise workloads,” explains John White, Chief Operating Officer, US Signal.  “Wherever you are in your cloud journey, organizations consistently see faster performance, lower costs, and improved outcomes with US Signal’s OpenCloud compared to other cloud platforms.  One of the reasons US Signal can deliver these key benefits to our customers is by leveraging the power of Infinidat’s InfiniBox SSA G4.”

Designed for its high performance, high capacity, 100% availability, ease of IT operations management, cyber resilience and flexibility in support of the critical data needs of enterprise customers, the InfiniBox SSA G4 gives US Signal the most powerful all-flash storage capabilities on the market today.

“Infinidat is the storage backing our OpenCloud as a multi-tenant infrastructure-as-a-service,” adds David Humes, Vice President of Product, US Signal.  “The platform that our new OpenCloud offering is based on is much more cloud-like and flexible for customers than a traditional VMware virtualization-as-a-service in which a service provider provides customers with a fixed quantity of resources, and they can’t go above that. With US Signal’s groundbreaking OpenCloud, we allow our customers to provision storage on the fly. Infinidat’s InfiniBox SSA G4 all-flash solution is perfect for it.”

When setting out to select a storage system for the core of its new cloud platform, US Signal established a high-end storage criterion for the highest performance, lowest latency, rugged reliability, flexible consumption models, cyber storage resilience, and cost effectiveness.  They required an uncompromising enterprise storage solution that they could trust.  Infinidat met the criteria better than any of the competition in the storage industry.

Infinidat exceeded several of US Signal’s critical metrics to achieve the goals for the OpenCloud solution. They found that not only did the InfiniBox SSA G4 deliver 2x better performance for their OpenCloud workloads, but it was half the cost per petabyte (PB) than the competition.  Additionally, ease of management to reduce IT operational resources and reduce OPEX was essential for their OpenCloud offering.  With Infinidat’s service-oriented automation and “set-it-and-forget-it” operational processes, US Signal can manage >27 petabytes (PB) of Infinidat storage with only two administrators.

“As an enterprise storage system, the InfiniBox SSA G4 is a breeze to work with.  It’s exactly what we have come to expect from Infinidat,” comments Daven Winans, Vice President of Engineering and Innovation, US Signal.  “From the easy-to-use user interface to the proactive monitoring to the capacity management, the InfiniBox SSA is a winner.  It has exceeded all our performance marks.  We’re extremely happy with what the InfiniBox G4 can do.”

“US Signal exemplifies how an infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud service provider can fully leverage the high-performance storage capabilities and exceptional business value offered by Infinidat’s InfiniBox enterprise storage solutions,” says Steve Sullivan, Chief Revenue Officer, Infinidat.  “Their OpenCloud product has positioned US Signal with a significant competitive edge in the U.S. market, providing enterprises with a compelling value proposition.  Powered by InfiniBox systems that are trusted by 28% of Fortune 50 companies, US Signal’s innovative infrastructure-as-a-service platform stands as a testament to their forward-thinking approach, and we are proud to be their core storage provider and a key enabler of their continued success.”

The new InfiniBox® G4 family adds a new level of performance, expanding beyond the already impressive benchmarks set by previous InfiniBox generations.  The G4 is backed by Infinidat’s SLA-driven, enterprise-proven guarantees: performance, 100% availability, cyber storage resilience, and the enhanced data services built into InfuzeOS™, which is Infinidat’s software defined storage operating system.