Delivering a Flexible Path to Speed and AI Innovation

Espresso Gridpoint (EGP) provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for diverse clients. With the Pure Storage platform, EGP delivers reliable, high-speed storage for its customers, improving efficiency and reducing data delivery time from a week to 24 hours.

As a leading provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, EGP delivers a high-performance, reliable infrastructure to diverse clientele, including IT startups, managed service providers (MSPs), and AI-centric companies. “We are a local private cloud vendor competing with the biggest names in the cloud business,” explains Marga Reuver, CEO, EGP. “We provide an environment with flexible building blocks that customers can rely on to build and grow their businesses.”

However, as EGP continues to grow and support an increasing number of customers, it faces a critical challenge: ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of its storage infrastructure.

EGP’s customers increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making and AI-powered solutions. The company needs reliable, high-performance storage that is capable of handling increasing volume and velocity of data while delivering continuous availability for the IaaS platform.

One customer in the Netherlands developed a solution that processes large volumes of geographic image data from distributed data sources. This generates significant data that must be processed and delivered quickly.

In the past, the customer experienced performance bottlenecks because legacy storage couldn’t keep up with the demands of its workloads.

The Everpure platform delivers fast flash performance, high reliability, and non-disruptive maintenance to help EGP ensure that its AI-ready infrastructure is always available for customers. The company uses a combination of Everpure FlashArray//X and FlashBlade//E to provide a robust storage foundation in a small footprint that supports sustainability goals with minimal power and cooling requirements. 

The Evergreen//One subscription service streamlines storage management and capacity planning, while also keeping storage up to date with non-disruptive upgrades. This allows EGP to provide efficient and scalable data solutions for its customers. 

“We create continuity for our customers, making sure that they can do business at any time,” says Piet Honkoop, CTO at EGP. “With the non-disruptive maintenance through Evergreen, customers don’t even notice updates. We only operate with proven technology providers like Everpure that we can trust to deliver consistent levels of availability and performance.” 

Reuver agrees that Evergreen//One and support from the Everpure team are key business advantages. “Our customers have large data requirements. The Everpure platform and Evergreen//One gives us the ability to scale up and down to meet customer needs while giving them predictable performance and solid reliability.”

The performance and reliability of the Pure Storage platform have helped transform operations for this customer, accelerating processing speeds by 60x to 100x. What once took up to a week can now be delivered within 24 hours, removing storage performance as a constraint and allowing teams to focus on delivering outcomes rather than managing infrastructure.

This performance shift also opens the door for broader business opportunities. With greater scalability in place, EGP now has the capacity to deliver on larger and nationwide contracts that were previously unattainable.

The Pure Storage platform positions EGP for continued expansion with a performant, scalable storage foundation that supports rapid growth and innovation.