Anyone looking for a house in the Netherlands almost always looks at Funda. The platform offers a complete home search experience, with detailed information, photos, floor plans and videos. Behind the scenes, a team of 45 developers works daily on improvements and new functionalities. A fast and stable IT infrastructure is essential to support the continued development of the platform.
Customer perspective
A platform that continuously innovates
The existing storage infrastructure, a traditional SAN environment, was a bottleneck. The shared storage capacity was slow, had a lot of downtime and was expensive to maintain. This slowed development processes and limited the flexibility of the development team. “Constant innovation of the platform is crucial to maintain our edge. Faster development, testing and deployment helps us do that.”
A future-proof storage solution
To dramatically improve development speed, Funda engaged Databalance to implement a Dell EMC Compellent full-flash storage environment. The new solution offers not only speed and stability, but also the scalability to accommodate future growth. The optimized storage strategy allows each development team to work more efficiently with data. “Now we have room for growth and can move forward at least four years with this solution.”
In addition to performance improvements, the new storage solution has also resulted in a more reliable IT environment. Downtime has been greatly reduced and management costs have been lowered. The collaboration with Databalance meant not only the implementation of a new infrastructure, but also strategic advice on how Funda can further optimize its IT environment.
Shorter turnaround of new features
