Hybrid Cloud Case Study
Vidsys Corporation (i.e. Vidsys.com, an Ares Security Company) is a leading provider of Converged Security & Information Management Solutions since 2005. They help organizations streamline their security operations to reduce risk, manage security events in real-time, and respond to incidents more effectively. They have hundreds of security enterprise customers as well. One of their most notable high-profile customers is Apple Computer.
The Issue at Hand
Vidsys had an infrastructure that consisted of aging non clustered virtualized servers and single node storage, and as it turned out, many VM’s that weren’t being backed up properly. They needed upgrading and technical support, and they evaluated several alternatives before choosing Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud Solution (which is a fully managed solution).
Ares:
156 Cores
1.79TB RAM
100+ VM’s
106TB Storage
Vidsys:
72 Cores
1.2TB RAM
124 VM’s w/HA
52TB Storage
Cost Options
Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
Turnkey Solution
$7,350
per month
✔ Affordable Business Continuity
✔ GEO-Redundancy Included
Compute and Backup
✔ Rapid Rollback
✔ World Class Intel Hardware
Azure Cloud Services
Plus Managed Services
$18,768
per month
✘ Overpriced Business Continuity
✘ GEO-Redundancy – Additional Charge;
Zone Redundant Storage Only
✘ Time Consuming Backups
✘ Hardware Unknown
Hybrid Cloud Case Study Conclusion:
Nfina Hybrid Cloud Turnkey Solution
- High performance and low latency: < 5 ms on-prem vs ~100 ms cloud
- More copies of their data plus cluster-to-cluster replication reduces risk
- $11,418 monthly savings; $685,080 savings over 5-years
- Eliminated the need and expense of in-house IT Staff
- Hyperscale cloud infrastructure is much more expensive
“Nfina’s products and managed solutions play a key role in insuring that our security solutions are continuously up and running and maximizing the availability of our IT Ecosystem and ultimately, the protection for our clients.”
– Ben Eazzetta, CEO, Ares Security