Ninefold, an Australian cloud computing and storage firm, stands out for its commitment to local data storage, responsive customer support, customizable self-service options, and minimal latency. This enables clients to swiftly provision virtual servers and cloud storage, effortlessly adjusting capacity as needed, and only paying for utilized resources. As the pioneering public cloud storage provider in Australia, Ninefold serves as the local counterpart to global giants like Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files. However, Ninefold's essence transcends mere technological infrastructure. In the realm of cloud computing, it's the dynamic interplay between developers and entrepreneurs, startups and corporations, vendors and clients that truly defines their mission. It's within these collaborative exchanges that groundbreaking ideas emerge, business challenges find ingenious solutions, and innovation flourishes through experimentation and partnership.

The cloud data storage market is very price sensitive, thus Ninefold need a cost efficient solution, while their technological product requires optimal performance. It became apparent Ninefold needed an operating system that would cater to the large capacity requirements of cloud storage, yet meet the needs at an affordable price in order to maintain competitiveness within the industry. The operating system would need to be able to support the cloud architecture from ‘Citrix Cloud Services,’ which requires storage for data and applications. Furthermore, the solution needed to provide data compression, data deduplication, snapshot, monitor and support so there technical operations would run as smooth as possible.

We had a unit of Supermicro Server with LSI HBA, STEC/OCZ SAS SSDs, Hitachi SAS HDDs, Intel DualPort 10GbE running on a version of NexentaStor 3.1.3.5. for storage repositories, which fulfilled the above requirements. This met the required 2000 IOPS.