An in-depth look at how the highest performing cloud is helping real businesses. Join us as we discuss candid and relevant examples of how a secure, performance oriented implementation is positively impacting Zeta Compliance Technologies. We'll cover how the secure FireHost infrastructure was designed from the ground up and fine-tuned with performance in mind, and how those decisions led to it outranking all other cloud providers in third party performance benchmarks.

1. How a Secure High
Performance Cloud Powers
Critical Applications
Presenter: Todd Gleason (Director of Technology, FireHost)
Featured Customer: Chris Wiles (CTO, Zeta Compliance Technologies)
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Introductions
Todd Gleason
Director of Technology
Chris Wiles
Chief Technology Officer

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Agenda
• FireHost’s Secret Sauce
• Define secure, high performance cloud
• Explain what goes into making a world class, high performance
infrastructure
• Review results for the 2013 global benchmark study of
infrastructure performance
• ZetaSafe SaaS - Results in the High Performance Cloud
• How application performance & security have improved this year
• Your Questions Answered
Submit your questions throughout the talk via chat.
We’ll address them live at the end or follow up offline

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Defining FireHost’s Secure and High
Performance Cloud

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Purpose Built for Speed
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Best-in-class technology
High-performance hypervisor
Hardware-assisted virtualization and hyper-threading
High-speed memory (and lots of it)
Fibre Channel storage connectivity for low-latency access
SSD acceleration for high IOPs and blended IO workloads
ATS for scalable lock management
Compartmentalize resources
& avoid oversubscribing

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2013 Global Benchmark Study Results
FireHost
Provider 1
Provider 2
Provider 3
Provider 4
Provider 5
Provider 6
See the full report at: www.firehost.com/performance

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A Business Case for Selecting a High
Performance Infrastructure

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What is ZetaSafe?
• ZetaSafe® is the cloud based solution to accurately and
efficiently Collect, Manage and Share data for Health, Safety,
Quality and Environmental compliance
• Schedule and Collect data using PDA barcode readers or
smartphones
• Manage the status of your assets and monitor your compliance
via your personalized ZetaSafe® dashboard on your tablet or PC
• Share business critical information via powerful reporting tools

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Making the Switch
The Challenges
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“We saved thousands in technical
expertise and consultants just by
employing FireHost and opening
support tickets”
Chris Wiles
Not getting guaranteed resources
Lack of technical expertise for complex configurations
Large amounts of data with stringent demands
Massive spikes in traffic levels and needed optimal functionality
The Solution
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Web and System architecture guidance (mirroring, backup, etc.)
Security measures that exceed compliance requirements
Ongoing expert support and consultation
Easy server resource control via a secure portal
The Results…

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750% Reduction in Response Time
Previous average response time: 4500 milliseconds
FireHost average response time: 600 milliseconds

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Thank You
Let’s review the questions
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