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The company also wanted a development partner to help design and develop its corporate website.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%2323344a|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”TwinStrata chose to partner with Folio3 for this project, due to Folio3’s extensive expertise in enterprise cloud application development services and in website & web application design & development; which made Folio3 a one stop shop solution provider for TwinStrata, for this project.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%2323344a|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”After evaluating the requirements, Folio3’s team of engineers started work on the project. Working in close collaboration with TwinStrata’s executive management, the team first designed and developed TwinStrata’s corporate website, over a period of 3 months. They then started work on the life cycle management application for TwinStrata’s cloud storage solution – the “Cloud Array” web portal.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%2323344a|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”Based on the requirements provided by TwinStrata, the Folio3 team first designed the Cloud Array Web portal and its backend infrastructure, which comprised of Linux based server clusters and their configuration. Once the solution architecture design was approved by TwinStrata’s management, Folio3’s engineers then started on the actual development. 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The most significant update to the Cloud Array web portal came in August 2012 when TwinStrata needed to upgrade its cloud storage infrastructure, due to the rapid growth of its customer base and their rising cloud storage demands. As such, the cloud storage solution’s architecture needed to be scaled horizontally and vertically in order to meet customer requirements. To cater to this demand, Folio3 designed and implemented clustered servers with distributed processing in the cloud storage architecture, including a NoSQL server, within a short span of 6 months.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%2323344a|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”As a result of these architectural improvements, the Cloud Array solution can now handle millions more users per day as well as several times the number of concurrent users, than it could previously.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%2323344a|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”Thanks to Folio3’s efforts, TwinStrata was not only able to rapidly bring its state of the art cloud storage solution to market but also progressively enhance and scale its solution architecture as needed, in order to meet the rising cloud storage demands of its user base. Subsequently, TwinStrata continues to be valuable partner of Folio3 with the relationship now in its fifth year.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%2323344a|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”development-methodology-cont” full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_row_inner el_class=”container margin-auto”][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading text=”DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY USED” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:18|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:normal” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”Folio3 used an agile development methodology with a focus on early product definition in the development of the Positioning Central workflow automation solution. At the start of each iteration the features were determined based on stakeholder input. The user experience was defined using wire-frames and detailed specifications were written. Once SAP accepted the features and user experience the development began. The team shipped six versions of Positioning Central over a 3 year period and continues development of new versions.” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:16|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1.7″ google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1494416407481{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/1″ el_class=”text-center”][vc_row_inner el_class=”container margin-auto”][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”10045″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”CALL” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:14px|text_align:center|color:%233e82d7|line_height:normal” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1493203806376{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

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