CIO Review Names Infinidat’s Customer Ryan Walker a Top CIO of 2024 for His Leadership to Transform the Data Infrastructure of a Cloud Service Provider
Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, today announced that CIO Review has named Ryan Walker, CIO of Net3 (an Infinidat customer), one of the Top 10 CIOs of the Year. Walker is being honored for his forward-thinking use of the industry’s most advanced storage technology to transform the data infrastructure of Net3, a leading cloud service provider (CSP) in the U.S. With Walker excelling as the CIO and building a world-class team of outstanding IT professionals, Net3 has become a prime example of how to run a cloud services business efficiently and economically.
Infinidat has provided the enterprise-grade storage technology, supporting Net3’s business with 100% uptime, intelligent automated capabilities, cost savings, and flexible consumption with capacity on demand. Infinidat’s unique active-active-active, triple redundant architecture is cited as a key to the always-on reliability. The company’s enterprise storage solutions have emerged as the most CIO-friendly option.
“We congratulate Ryan Walker for his remarkable work as CIO of Net3 to set an example of how the combination of a business-first IT strategy with the right storage architecture can improve the way a cloud service provider operates and serves its customers,” said Jim Chesbrough, Sales Director at Infinidat. “We are proud to celebrate Ryan’s recognition as a Top 10 CIO of 2024. It’s wonderful to have a CIO given an accolade for the superior use of enterprise-grade storage technology. This is reflective of the trend we see of CSPs embracing the business and technical value of Infinidat’s solutions for the storage infrastructure.”
To deliver a positive turnaround for Net3, Walker made a critical decision to replace Net3’s existing storage infrastructure with enterprise storage solutions from Infinidat. Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Net3 owns and operates a private cloud, PvDC, which has coast-to-coast locations, giving their customers a choice of where they want their data to be run and to be protected. The first InfiniBox was installed in March 2022. Since then, this CSP has installed three additional systems, with a total of 8 petabytes of capacity. Infinidat’s enterprise storage solutions were acquired through Dynamix and Adapture, Infinidat channel partners. All of their Infinidat systems are in data center colocation facilities in Atlanta and Las Vegas.
By using Infinidat’s flexible consumption model, the financial benefit to Net3 and their customers is that they are not paying for storage that they are not using. This fixed the previous issue that Net3 had with the shortcomings of monolithic storage arrays from other vendors.
“Infinidat is run by storage industry veterans who understand how to overcome the common problems with enterprise storage,” said Ryan Walker, CIO of Net3. “Our main storage obstacle in recent years had been keeping up with the pace of growth while ensuring performance and availability to our customers. Infinidat has solved all of the pain points that we’ve had with previous storage providers through unmatched performance and availability. I thank Infinidat for all of their white glove support.”
To read Ryan Walker’s guest blog on Infinidat’s website, click here.
To read CIO Review’s profile of Ryan Walker as a Top 10 CIO, click here.
To read the Net3 case study, click here.
About Infinidat
Infinidat provides enterprises and service providers with a platform-native primary and secondary storage architecture that delivers comprehensive data services based on InfiniVerse®. This unique platform delivers outstanding IT operating benefits, support for modern workloads across on-premises and hybrid multi-cloud environments. Infinidat's cyber resilient-by-design infrastructure, consumption-based performance, 100% availability, and cyber security guaranteed SLAs align with enterprise IT and business priorities. Infinidat’s award-winning platform-native data services and acclaimed white glove service are continuously recommended by customers, as recognized by Gartner® Peer Insights reviews. For more information, visit www.infinidat.com.
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