IT SERVICES

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY

Business Mobile Solutions deploys Zadara Storage

to provide high-performance, enterprise-grade
storage for their AWS EC2 compute instances

“We don’t have time for cumbersome IT tasks like managing storage. Why would anyone
want to run those data center operations, when you can utilize Zadara Storage, and focus
instead on growing your business.” Thomas Bouvrette, CTO of Business Mobile Solutions

Zadara Addresses Performance,

Customer Profile:
Business Mobile Solutions develops
innovative mobile collaboration
solutions, including CosmosSync, a
tool for team collaboration and Scalability, Disaster Recovery and
Management Requirements
business efficiency.

Challenge:
• High performance file-based cloud
storage across multiple AWS
compute resources
• Elasticity to support rapid growth
and scalability
• Easy management across multiple
instances with group permissions
and other traditional on-premise
features
Solution:
• Zadara Storage VPSA™ Storage
Array with Backup to S3 at AWS
Results:
• Easy to scale, adjust and grow on-
demand, as-needed
• Enterprise-grade capabilities such
as resource isolation, snapshots
and advanced backup to AWS S3
• Avoided complexities associated
with storage management
Business Mobile Solutions (BMS) They run the entire workflow more
develops innovative mobile collabora- efficiently, boosting productivity and
tion solutions including CosmosSync, revenues, reducing expenses and
used by auto body repair shops, car improving customer service.
rental agencies, and insurance compa-
nies to create efficient digital workflows. The firm was an early adopter of the
The solution allows team members to data center-as-a-service (DCaaS) model
perform walk-around vehicle inspections back in 2013, choosing Amazon Web
from a mobile device, creating photos, Services (AWS) for compute resources
videos and voice memos of the status of instead of spending CapEx to build an
a vehicle, and then synchronizing and on-premise data center. However, after
storing these files centrally, so that users a trial deployment of S3 storage from
can annotate, share and manage records AWS, it quickly became apparently that
more efficiently. These shops process using an object storage solution made it
25 to 30 vehicles a day, and sometimes difficult for the CosmoSync application
more – with tens of files per vehicle. By to retain its file folder structure. The
using CosmosSync, companies reduce need to rename each file entered in
movement around the business and
instead can directly transmit infor-
mation to the right person in real-time.
 the object storage system quickly grew service levels. BMS maintains a 2-
complex at scale, and created signifi- server setup, replicating between the
cant performance consequences. two locations and adding an extra
element of availability into the system.
“This is truly ‘set it and In addition, to support international
forget it’ storage that is expansion, the company required BMS CTO Thomas Bouvrette particu-
storage across multiple AWS locations larly appreciates the Zadara online
fast, secure and agile – the simultaneously. This required group management interface from which he
permissions so storage could be shared can easily change storage levels, media,
perfect choice for us. across these multiple instances – a controllers and add specialized features
feature not available in most cloud- on-the-fly. Proactive alerts notify his
Other storage products
enabled storage. team when they are reaching capacity
gave us ‘good’ thresholds allowing them to make
BMS also needed the ability to take resource decisions without impacting
performance, but Zadara frequent storage snapshots to allow customers. “We’re just a click away
customers to restore data that may from putting more resources into our
Storage gave us have been accidentally deleted or lost system at any time,” he said.
exceptionally high due to corruption issues – not a
common feature in cloud storage. He is billed only for the storage that is
performance and consumed, and Zadara Storage takes
“This is truly ‘set it and forget it’ care of all provisioning, operation,
enterprise-caliber features storage that is fast, secure and agile – maintenance and upgrades. Zadara
we couldn’t find the perfect choice for us,” said Thomas Storage also provides a 100% SLA
Bouvrette, CTO of Business Mobile guarantee as well as guaranteed
elsewhere.” Solutions. “Other storage products Quality of Service levels – which also
gave us good performance, but Zadara are rare among cloud storage solutions.
Storage gave us exceptionally high
“We’re just a click away performance and enterprise-caliber The company also leverages the Zadara
features we couldn’t find elsewhere.” Storage Backup to S3 (B2S3) feature,
from putting more using its rules to capture a snapshot
BMS uses SSDs to store its EC2 every hour. This makes restoration
resources into our system computing instances at AWS East, and effortless and turns the customer
cost-effective RAID from Zadara support team into heroes in the rare
at any time.”
Storage. Zadara’s resources are collo- occurance a restoration is needed.
cated nearby AWS data centers via high
speed fiber lines, for extremely low “We don’t have time for cumbersome
Thomas Bouvrette, latency and easy scalability. All BMS IT tasks like storage management,”
storage resources are dedicated and Bouvrette continued. “Why would
CTO of Business Mobile not shared with anyone else – anyone want to run those data center
Solutions providing the company with isolated operations, when you can leverage
resources and no “noisy neighbor” Zadara Storage, and focus instead on
problems, where other tenants impact growing your business.”

Zadara Storage
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