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Case Studies > Naitways Customers Get Scalable Websites Without Having to Manage Any Infrastructure or Operating Systems with Portworx

Naitways Customers Get Scalable Websites Without Having to Manage Any Infrastructure or Operating Systems with Portworx

Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Fleet Management
Inventory Management
Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Data Science Services
System Integration

The Challenge

Naitways, an IT service provider based in Paris, France, was facing challenges in scaling to meet customer demand, especially for the many stateful services they offer like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, MySQL, & Redis. Most persistent storage options for containers didn’t provide both high performance storage for applications like MySQL, and multi-writer shared volumes for WordPress, both hard requirements for typical hosting customers. They needed a solution that could provide scalable, easy-to-use container-as-a-service offering and hosted web applications.

About The Customer

Naitways is an IT service provider company, based in Paris, France. The company is composed of two business units, the hosting business unit, and the infrastructure business unit. Founded 10 years ago, Naitways' mission is to help and advise their clients with their infrastructure, especially as they move into the cloud. In order to provide the best service to their clients, they have built their entire infrastructure themselves from scratch. They have always offered a VMware based private cloud, but nowadays, more and more customers are asking for public cloud services. For these services, they are using Kubernetes. They now have around 30 employees and they look forward to hiring new talent in 2018.

The Solution

Naitways decided to use Kubernetes and Docker container management platform for a scalable, easy-to-use container-as-a-service offering and hosted web applications. They also chose to use Portworx Enterprise for cloud native storage and data management. Portworx enabled Naitways to increase revenue by offering an easy upgrade path for customers to purchase additional storage or backup services. Portworx reduced Naitways’ time to market by allowing it to focus on building customer functionality since core operational requirements like high availability and backups were taken care of. Portworx increased Naitways’ operational efficiency by automatically handling common failures that occur in a dynamic server environment like server failures and network partitions.

Operational Impact

Portworx enabled Naitways to increase revenue by offering an easy upgrade path for customers to purchase additional storage or backup services.
Portworx reduced Naitways’ time to market by allowing it to focus on building customer functionality since core operational requirements like high availability and backups were taken care of.
Portworx increased Naitways’ operational efficiency by automatically handling common failures that occur in a dynamic server environment like server failures and network partitions.

Quantitative Benefit

Naitways was able to increase revenue by offering an easy upgrade path for customers to purchase additional storage or backup services.
Portworx reduced Naitways’ time to market, saving them four to five months of development time.