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Government agencies are seeking a better way to access, store and process data closer to where it is being created and consumed, whether that is in a data center, branch location, cloud environment or at the edge where devices connect to the network.

Based in London, Carrenza is a global cloud service company that provides award-winning infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) to customers that range from government agencies to leading retailers and financial-services firms. Carrenza has vast expertise in public-cloud integration, supporting customers that use Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud Air, and Microsoft Azure.

Based in London, Carrenza is a global cloud service company that provides award-winning infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) to customers that range from government agencies to leading retailers and financial-services firms. Carrenza has vast expertise in public-cloud integration, supporting customers that use Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud Air, and Microsoft Azure.

Premier Eye Care turned to NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and implemented a NetApp® SolidFire® all-flash storage system for its Microsoft SQL database workloads to solve major challenges with backup and recovery, latency, and reporting. In doing so, Premier Eye Care reduced its backup-and-recovery time from up to nine hours to seven minutes. Latency fell from 150 to 200 milliseconds to 1 to 2 milliseconds per transaction. Reports that took hours now take minutes, and database maintenance cycles accelerated from 22 hours to approximately 4 hours.

Premier Eye Care turned to NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and implemented a NetApp® SolidFire® all-flash storage system for its Microsoft SQL database workloads to solve major challenges with backup and recovery, latency, and reporting. In doing so, Premier Eye Care reduced its backup-and-recovery time from up to nine hours to seven minutes. Latency fell from 150 to 200 milliseconds to 1 to 2 milliseconds per transaction. Reports that took hours now take minutes, and database maintenance cycles accelerated from 22 hours to approximately 4 hours.

Premier Eye Care turned to NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and implemented a NetApp® SolidFire® all-flash storage system for its Microsoft SQL database workloads to solve major challenges with backup and recovery, latency, and reporting. In doing so, Premier Eye Care reduced its backup-and-recovery time from up to nine hours to seven minutes. Latency fell from 150 to 200 milliseconds to 1 to 2 milliseconds per transaction. Reports that took hours now take minutes, and database maintenance cycles accelerated from 22 hours to approximately 4 hours.

FlashForward Capacity Licensing extends new software licensing rights to SolidFire customers, including the right to perpetually transfer software across multiple generations of hardware at no additional cost, and the ability to pool software licensing across an enterprise’s entire storage footprint. With FlashForward Capacity Licensing, customers can now combine the simplicity of purchasing SolidFire SF-Series Appliances at commodity hardware costs with the flexibility of licensing NetApp SolidFire Element OS on an enterprise-wide basis. FlashForward software and support licenses are purchased in capacity increments (starting at 100TBs) that cover a pooled amount of capacity across an unlimited number of SolidFire systems. This model allows customers to license SolidFire’s software in greater alignment with the dynamic and growing nature of their business.

“SolidFire transforms storage from a significant cost and management burden at HedgeServ into an innovation enabler,” said Isa Berisha, Director of Global Platform Engineering at HedgeServ. “HedgeServ is taking advantage of SolidFire to unleash its business and IT agility, and to create pioneering new client services—our advantage for staying profitable and competitive.”

“SolidFire transforms storage from a significant cost and management burden at HedgeServ into an innovation enabler,” said Isa Berisha, Director of Global Platform Engineering at HedgeServ. “HedgeServ is taking advantage of SolidFire to unleash its business and IT agility, and to create pioneering new client services—our advantage for staying profitable and competitive.”