Case Study: Global Source2Pay Analytics Company Solves Object Storage Scalability Challenges with Verinext, OSNexus & Seagate Solution

Company Overview

A global leader in Recovery Audit and Spend Analytics came to Verinext as their Value Added Reseller (VAR) looking for a new solution to solve their major object storage scalability issues. In this industry, the amount of data being processed in order to glean business value is in the billions of objects and not many object storage offerings can perform in this capacity. The customer required a fast, reliable object storage solution that would deliver 5PB of storage with the ability to grow to 20PB and beyond, and at the same time perform well with billions of small objects.

“QuantaStor really stood out to us with its ease of use and appliance-like integration with Seagate hardware that made it turn-key to deploy in just hours. But the biggest win has been QuantaStor’s performance and auto- tiering features that are critical to our workloads,” said the Verinext representative for the end user.

The Solution

Verinext’s customer had over 4x racks of an existing object storage solution that wasn’t performing well and with over 5 billion objects under management and 100,000 buckets, the system became too sluggish to even handle basic queries and metadata was not accessible in some cases. The customer urgently needed a reliable and scalable solution, and Verinext proposed OSNexus QuantaStor and Seagate 5U84 servers. The deployment was quick and there was on-site support from both OSNexus and Seagate for the rack and stack as well as the cluster configuration stage. The combined solution was an immediate success and the customer was impressed with the performance and reliability of the platform, as well as the features for object storage clusters.

The Result

The OSNexus + Seagate solution addressed Verinext’s customer’s scalability issues and delivers the whole object store as a fully integrated solution that is easy for the organization to manage, expand, and maintain over time. The problems with accessing metadata from their previous solution have been solved completely, which has greatly improved automation, time savings, and cost reductions. This customer opted for OSNexus Platinum Support and stated the support team has been great for assistance with scripting, upgrade assistance, deep diving on architecture elements and more.

“QuantaStor has really exceeded our expectations; it’s fast, reliable, and we’ve been really impressed with some of the latest features such as the overflow system where objects can be directed to hybrid storage when there’s low space in the all-flash tier,” said the Verinext representative for the end user.