The Hut Group (THG) Selects SoftIron's Ceph-based HyperDrive® for Eco-Friendly, Mission-critical Enterprise Storage
SoftIron's 'Task-specific' Storage Appliances Deliver Resilient, Scale-Out eCommerce Infrastructure While Helping Achieve on Carbon Neutral Objectives
LONDON, Jan. 6, 2021 /CNW/ -- SoftIron Ltd., the leader in purpose-built and performance-optimized data center solutions, today announced that The Hut Group (THG), the UK's leading multi-product, multi-website online retailer, has selected SoftIron's HyperDrive® as the storage backbone for its global THG Ingenuity e-commerce platform. The company cites SoftIron's task-specific approach to (open source software-defined storage software) Ceph, ease of use and efficiency as critical determinations for the selection.
SoftIron's Ceph-optimized storage solution, HyperDrive, tackles mission-critical issues such as scalability, resiliency, and cloud-native flexibility, while also excelling in power, performance, and efficiency. The implementation helps the e-commerce giant achieve a resilient, agile infrastructure to power its world-leading retail platform while retaining its CarbonNeutral® certification and avoiding vendor lock-in.
The integration of SoftIron's HyperDrive comes as THG prepares for growth after raising £1.88 billion in its initial public offering (IPO) in September 2020 - the largest UK IPO on record. With plans to scale globally, THG has built a state-of-the-art e-commerce platform called THG Ingenuity that delivers enterprise-class scalability and resiliency, is cloud-native, provides superior efficiency and exists within its carbon-neutral THG Eco initiative.
"At THG, part of our success is a result of our bold ambition to do things differently, and by so doing, to create new efficiencies and opportunities that put ourselves and our customers ahead of the curve," said Schalk Van der Merwe, CTO at THG. "While open source solutions may seem like a 'science project' for non-tech companies – for us, being cloud-agnostic, free of lock-in, and achieving 'Cloud Native Without Cloud,' is all strategically important within our architecture. We love the 'task-specific' approach SoftIron is taking to make open-source Ceph deployable and manageable at scale for enterprises like ours, while at the same time creating efficiencies that reduce our environmental footprint."
Phil Straw, CEO of SoftIron said "SoftIron's HyperDrive storage appliances are the ultimate productization of Ceph, providing enterprise-grade capabilities in a package that delivers the best of both worlds in raw performance and green efficiency,". He added, "we've engineered HyperDrive storage hardware from the source code and motherboard on up – a method which we call 'task-specific.' We've custom-built our hardware to support the source code first and have thus eliminated the inefficiencies that exist using the legacy 'commodity' approach. The result is a powerful storage appliance providing the 'Swiss Army Knife' benefits of Ceph (including the flexibility of universal block, object, and file storage) in a powerful and hyper-efficient package that delivers advantages in both performance and TCO."
As THG grows and the trend towards more edge infrastructure deployments gains momentum, Schalk and his team will continue to add to their 24 data centers across the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia. "SoftIron's solution offers superior management & resilience capabilities without sacrificing efficiency, which perfectly support our short and long term objectives for the business," says Schalk. " We're already operational with HyperDrive in the UK, Germany and the US and look forward to working together to deliver a new class of service and support for our customers across the globe."
More information about how THG are addressing their requirements for a scalable, efficient and cloud native storage solution with SoftIron can be found in the case study here http://bit.ly/THGSelectsSoftIron
About SoftIron®
SoftIron® is the world-leader in task-specific appliances for scale-out data center solutions. Their superior, purpose-built hardware is designed, developed and assembled in California, and they are the only manufacturer to offer auditable provenance. SoftIron's HyperDrive® software-defined, enterprise storage portfolio runs at wire-speed and is custom-designed to optimize Ceph. HyperSwitch™ is their line of next-generation, top-of-rack switches built to maximize the performance and flexibility of SONiC. HyperCast™ is their high-density, concurrent 4K transcoding solution, for multi-screen, multi-format delivery. SoftIron unlocks greater business value for enterprises by delivering best-in-class products, free from software and hardware lock-in. For more information visit www.SoftIron.com.
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