SugarSync

Company: SugarSync
Industry: Services
Carpathia Services: Managed Cloud

Why Carpathia?

• Carpathia established itself as a go-to-provider for companies with significant compute and storage requirements for dedicated or public and private cloud infrastructure.
• Carpathia’s partnership with Citrix Systems allowed SugarSync to access the power of Citrix NetScaler MPX™ and its Pay-as-You-Grow pricing model.
• SugarSync can quickly and affordably expand its infrastructure as performance and capacity requirements dictate, without incurring the heavy fixed costs and service interruptions of hardware upgrades.

Background
SugarSync is a powerful data syncing and online backup service providing always-connected consumers and mobile professionals a powerful way to organize, manage, share and access all their files on-the-go, instantly and securely from any Mac, PC or mobile device.

Challenge
Because use of SugarSync varies from day-to-day, the company needed to find a hosting solution that would cost-effectively scale to meet the peaks of customers’ usage while still being fully-managed.

Approach
SugarSync chose Carpathia Hosting to provide a managed hosting solution for the company’s digital sync, backup and sharing service. Carpathia hosts and manages one of SugarSync’s private compute and storage clouds, utilizing its partnership with Citrix to take advantage of the Citrix NetScaler MPX line of application acceleration, load balancing and web security appliances.

Solution
SugarSync is located in Carpathia Hosting’s fault-tolerant, secure data center in Phoenix, AZ. The solution is delivered as a service, allowing SugarSync to avoid significant capital expenditure, while ensuring the highest level of support for its critical infrastructure. The combination of SugarSync’s private cloud innovation, Carpathia’s managed hosting solutions and the NetScaler MPX technology has resulted in an industry-leading private cloud solution that demonstrates how enterprises can truly take advantage of cost-effective cloud technology, without sacrificing scale. SugarSync can now quickly and affordably expand its infrastructure as performance and capacity requirements dictate, without incurring the heavy fixed costs and service interruptions of hardware upgrades.