Colohouse Builds a Scalable Storage Service Platform

When Colohouse fueled rapid expansion with six strategic acquisitions and needed to replace its costly and inefficient
storage solutions nearing end-of-life, the firm chose Pure Storage®.

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Summary

Colohouse, a managed IT service provider, serves hundreds of clients with variable IT workloads that require an agile storage infrastructure. To gain more visibility, agility, performance, control, and financial flexibility, Colohouse began consuming storage as a service via Evergreen//One™, enabling it to scale capacity on the fly to meet fluctuating client demands. With Pure Storage, Colohouse also eliminated common bottlenecks in its recovery operations.

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Technology

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North America

Use Cases

Enable Multi-Cloud
Flexible Storage Performance and Capacity
Modernize Data Protection

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Challenges

Following six strategic acquisitions, managing its different storage solutions had become a logistical nightmare for Colohouse. These spinning disk systems were costly, inefficient, and reaching end of life, with little ability to handle fluctuating capacity demands. The firm also needed to provide its customers with fast data recovery in the event of cyberattack or data loss.

Results

Business Transformation

Built an agile cloud services storage portfolio to grow its services
Provides customers with enterprise grade performance and data protection capabilities
Cut costs by paying only for the storage needed with the flexibility to scale

IT Transformation

Unifies storage across storage service portfolio
Provides performant and cost-optimized storage to meet customer workload and recovery demands
Improves management of capacity to demand with a consumption-based model

“The Pure Evergreen//One subscription is a game-changer, allowing us to scale our capacity up and down without sacrificing speed, reliability, or availability. We also get support and oversight directly from Pure, which improves our ability to support critical storage operations, and ensure optimal health and performance of the storage infrastructure our customers rely on.”

CTO, Colohouse

Scott Fuhriman