Go Daddy goes Swift with storage

SANTA CLARA, USA: SwiftTest Inc., player in storage validation, announced that Go Daddy, the Web's top platform for small businesses, is using its technology to help control storage costs and optimize service delivery.

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Go Daddy's storage team manages a hefty (28 Petabytes) and rapidly growing storage infrastructure with 99.999 per cent uptime in a storage-as-a-service model. The team faces the constant challenge of innovating to improve service delivery and to reduce costs. Having the ability to validate innovations prior to deployment in production was a critical requirement for Go Daddy, as "testing in production" with live customers was not an option. Adoption of SwiftTest has turned what was once an arduous process into an efficient, effective solution.

"If you can't validate technology before it's deployed into production, then you are flying blind," said Julia Palmer, storage protection and data manager at Go Daddy. "SwiftTest gives us the confidence of knowing exactly how our infrastructure will behave in the real world, in a matter of days instead of months. It helps us determine an optimal balance of better, faster, and affordable storage system technologies that ultimately benefit Go Daddy's 11 million customers worldwide.

SwiftTest is leveraged by Go Daddy in a variety of use cases including product bake-offs, new technology evaluations, density testing, and routine change management. "We can now assess cutting edge storage technologies like SSDs, caching / tiering, and dedup against our full production requirements, faster and more accurately than ever before," says Justin Richardson, senior storage engineer at Go Daddy. "SwiftTest puts us in the driver's seat when it comes to our storage roadmap and our cost structure."