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HOW INFINIDAT LETS YOU PAY FOR THE STORAGE AND GROW AS YOU NEED . level services that small to medium-sized businesses need . This has fuelled VDC ’ s fast growth and utilisation of virtualisation technology and VMware solutions for its capabilities of providing hosting , managed services , VPN hosted firewall services and website hosting . Critical to VDC ’ s business is data storage .
Growth can be challenging
As a growing company , VDC was always looking for upgrades in terms of SAN storage . “ We came to the realisation that if we wanted to truly grow to the next level , we needed substantially more storage capability ,” said Cole Thompson , President and CEO , VDC . “ In fact , we needed capability and speed requirements that we could access as we needed it and at a price that was simple to understand .”
Thompson admits that his expectation was initially that an all-flash array would be ‘ the answer ’ to VDC ’ s growth plan . He also already had an inclination towards one of the big incumbent vendors in
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