One of the largest financial organizations in the world had already recognized the power of Ceph as a distributed, opensource, scale-out storage platform catering to their high-bandwidth research needs, however, their current storage cluster was on the brink of failure and falling into disrepair. They needed a partner who understood their needs and could offer them a solution that was easy to implement and could meet the HPC demands of their economists. SoftIron was the obvious choice with HyperDrive: a Ceph-optimized storage solution that could be seamlessly integrated and enhance their existing Ceph environment, as well as an offering that gave them total end-to-end support for both the hardware and the software.