Presentation by Chris Royall, Operations Director at CommuniGator and client of Carrenza. Delivered at the 'Are you in control of your cloud? event, hosted in partnership with NetApp on the 14th March, 2017 in London. In these slides you will see Chris present the many benefits Carrenza brings his business in terms of digital transformation, migration and seamless integration with other platforms.

1. © Carrenza Limited 2015
ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR
CLOUD?
Aaron Yates, CTO, CommuniGator
Carrenza/Solidfire Customer Case Study.

2. Marketing Automation & Lead Generation
GatorMail GatorLeads GatorSocial GatorDocs
GatorEventsGatorWorkflow GatorCRMGatorSurveys
GatorSuite

3. Marketing Automation
Pardot Marketo Hubspot Silverpop
Pure360Dotmailer
ConstantConta
ct
Mailchimp
GatorCompetitors
Email Marketing

4. 2005 Incorporation
8000+ Users
1.2k B2B
Clients
4 billiion
Website pages
tracked
1 billion emails
a year
CommuniGator
35+ Virtual
Machines
Microsoft +
LAMP
Webcache
Acceleration
SAAS
1k SQL Dbs = 8 YEAR BATTLE WITH STORAGE

5. Challenges:
• 3000+ own IP addresses
• 1000+ SQL dbs 24/7
• MTA Farm
• Performance at its limit
• Legacy application limitations

6. 2005 2007 2011 2012 2015 2016
Gator
Incorporated
Onpremise
1st Term
Dedicated
2nd Term
Dedicated
Rackspace Cloud
New Product
GatorLeads
Launched
Carrenza
Consolidation Project
Solidfire

7. Challenges: Dedicated Hosting
• X Year Contract
• Guestimate future growth
• Lack of agility
• Infrastructure and App Battle
• High cost of change

8. Challenges: Rackspace
• Lacking enterprise delivery
• Cost

9. Why Carrenza
• Expertise
• Cloud
• Migration
• Performance
• Security
• Cost
LIVE MIGRATION MULTIPLE DATA CENTRES

10. Dell Equalogic 4 Years Ago

11. Today Carrenza and Solidfire

12. Solidfire
• Turbocharged Performance
• Upgrade Path
• Eliminates variability
• Guaranteed quality of service

13. A personal conclusion!!
Due to unprecedented performance
• I focus on App Not the Infrastructure
STORAGE BATTLE GONE = NO MORE NIGHTMARES

14. THANK YOU!

15. © Carrenza Limited 2015
ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR
CLOUD?15:30 - 16:00 Welcome and networking
16:00 - 16:15 Matthew McGrory, MD, Carrenza
Introduction. Why we, as a cloud provider, chose Solidfire
16:15 - 16:45 Bart Veldhuis, Cloud Architect, Weolcan
Current State of the Cloud Union.
16:45 - 17:15 Josh Atwell, Cloud Architect, NetApp (once Solidfire)
The benefits of an API driven infrastructure.
17:15 - 17:30 Aaron Yates, CTO at CommuniGator
Carrenza / Solidfire (NetApp) customer case study.
17:30 - 18:00 Close with Q&A with discussion panel.