Pinja achieves SaaS delivery scalability with Managed Private Cloud

Simplifying infrastructure while scaling SaaS delivery

Pinja, a growing SaaS provider based in Europe, expanded capacity to address new customer requirements with a secure, high-performance managed private IaaS solution from Equinix Managed Solutions. Using a private cloud solution interconnected to the public cloud, Pinja is now able to reach a broader set of customers while simplifying its IT infrastructure management processes. 

For SaaS, scalability is everything 

Pinja, which provides SaaS solutions for industrial and supply chain operations companies around the world, faced a challenge as it expanded its customer base and global reach: It needed to ensure that it could keep scaling to support more clients without compromising on performance or reliability. 

Just as important, the company sought to improve sustainability, provide more flexible digital solutions to its customers and reduce the operational complexity of maintaining IT infrastructure. And it wanted to do all of this while retaining a high degree of control and customizability over its infrastructure, something that the public cloud can’t provide. 

Pinja needed to increase its infrastructure capacity to support a growing SaaS business. Already serving customers in 30+ countries, the company wanted to scale its capacity on infrastructure that would support future growth, emphasize sustainability and enable it to facilitate its customers’ digital transformations. With a high-performance, cost-effective managed private cloud solution paired with virtual interconnection to the public cloud, Pinja can achieve its mission to be a digital partner to customers, enabling innovation and growth. 

Combining scalability with simplicity 

Pinja found the solution it sought in Equinix Managed Private Cloud, a managed IaaS solution that provides server virtualization inside Equinix data centers. As a managed solution, the private IaaS hybrid cloud architecture offered by Equinix eliminates costly investments in hardware and reduces operational complexity, making it easier for Pinja to expand capacity for its customers. 

By reducing IT management burdens while maximizing flexibility, the solution “helps us focus more on developing our customers’ business-critical applications, information management solutions, information security and customer service,” says Pekka Nurminen, CIO, Pinja. 

It also supports the company’s sustainability goals by using Equinix data centers that offer 96% or higher renewable energy coverage. 

The deployment includes two production sites with private compute, storage and networking, as well as managed backups in a third data center for high resiliency. Just as important, it leverages Equinix Fabric to provide interconnection to public cloud environments, enabling high-performing network connectivity for reaching Pinja’s customers no matter where their infrastructure is based. 

A trusted partner for ongoing growth 

In Equinix, Pinja not only found a managed solution to support its capacity needs, but also a true partner that can scale the solution globally, enabling the company’s continued expansion and future opportunities. Pinja now has access to cloud-adjacent infrastructure that offers the opportunity to access major clouds and deploy digital services like Equinix Fabric on a flexible, vendor-neutral ecosystem. 

Benefits

Scalable, high-performance private infrastructure 

The private IaaS solution from Equinix provides the capacity that Pinja needs now, as well as room to grow in the future with modular service options on a neutral cloud ecosystem. 

Simplified infrastructure management 

With a managed IaaS solution, Pinja’s teams are free to focus on innovation and the transformation of its business, while Equinix focuses on delivering secure operational excellence. 

Flexible, virtual interconnection to the cloud 

Equinix Fabric® enables secure, software-defined interconnection to the public cloud, supporting Pinja’s hybrid cloud strategy and allowing the flexibility to place workloads in the right places seamlessly. 

Easy consumption and fast time-to-market 

As a comprehensive managed solution, Pinja’s private IaaS can easily be replicated in other locations and deployed quickly without up-front infrastructure investments. 

Built-in disaster recovery 

With its multisite solution, Pinja can ensure business continuity and fast recovery time in the event of an unexpected outage. 

Renewable energy sourcing 

Leveraging renewable energy or equivalent power sourcing within Equinix data centers supports Pinja’s sustainability goals.