© Carrenza Limited 2015

ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR CLOUD?

Aaron Yates, CTO, CommuniGator Carrenza/Solidfire Customer Case Study.

Marketing Automation & Lead Generation

GatorMail GatorLeads GatorSocial GatorDocs

GatorEventsGatorWorkflow GatorCRMGatorSurveys

GatorSuite

Marketing Automation

Pardot Marketo Hubspot Silverpop

Pure360Dotmailer ConstantContactMailchimp

GatorCompetitors

Email Marketing

2005 Incorporation

8000+ Users 1.2k B2B Clients

4 billiion Website pages

tracked1 billion emails

a year

CommuniGator

35+ Virtual Machines

Microsoft + LAMP

Webcache AccelerationSAAS

1k SQL Dbs = 8 YEAR BATTLE WITH STORAGE

Challenges:

• 3000+ own IP addresses• 1000+ SQL dbs 24/7• MTA Farm• Performance at its limit• Legacy application limitations

2005 2007 2011 2012 2015 2016

Gator Incorporated

Onpremise

1st TermDedicated

2nd TermDedicated

Rackspace CloudNew Product GatorLeads Launched

CarrenzaConsolidation Project

Solidfire

Challenges: Dedicated Hosting

• X Year Contract• Guestimate future growth• Lack of agility• Infrastructure and App Battle• High cost of change

Challenges: Rackspace

• Lacking enterprise delivery• Cost

Why Carrenza

• Expertise• Cloud• Migration• Performance• Security• Cost

LIVE MIGRATION MULTIPLE DATA CENTRES

Dell Equalogic 4 Years Ago

Today Carrenza and Solidfire

Solidfire

• Turbocharged Performance• Upgrade Path• Eliminates variability• Guaranteed quality of service

A personal conclusion!!

Due to unprecedented performance

• I focus on App Not the Infrastructure

STORAGE BATTLE GONE = NO MORE NIGHTMARES

THANK YOU!

© Carrenza Limited 2015

ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR CLOUD?15:30 - 16:00 Welcome and networking

16:00 - 16:15 Matthew McGrory, MD, CarrenzaIntroduction. Why we, as a cloud provider, chose Solidfire

16:15 - 16:45 Bart Veldhuis, Cloud Architect, WeolcanCurrent State of the Cloud Union.

16:45 - 17:15 Josh Atwell, Cloud Architect, NetApp (once Solidfire)The benefits of an API driven infrastructure.

17:15 - 17:30 Aaron Yates, CTO at CommuniGator Carrenza / Solidfire (NetApp) customer case study.

17:30 - 18:00 Close with Q&A with discussion panel.