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Storage Case Studies
Huawei Symantec & Rain: House of Post Production Case Study
AV8ER, Zycko and Huawei Symantec work together to provide bespoke storage and networking solution.
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| Manufacturer: | Huawei Symantec |
| Manufacturer: | Symantec |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
Yavapai Enrolls Students in Cost-Effective VDI Solution with Tintri
Quote from William Earles - Director of Infrastructure Services - “We are able to deploy virtual desktops at less than half the cost of physical desktops, which is crucial given our budget constraints. At the same time, we are able to run the VDI environment smoothly and provide user experience that is on-par or better than with physical desktops.”
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
IMG Mediahouse hits home run with Huawei Symantec
Storage specialist works on private cloud with global production house. Mediahouse selected disk-based storage and networked attached storage from the Huawei Symantec Oceanspace series, and a next-generation blade server from the manufacturer’s Tecal range. It’s essential in the broadcast industry that any solution does what it says it can and at a rapid rate. Any downtime or ‘black space’ as it’s known in this industry causes the broadcast to stop completely, which costs a lot of money and naturally shakes client confidence. Huawei Symantec’s excellent track record in the telecoms sector made them a natural fit for an industry that relies on trusted recommendations and due diligence tests carried out at the very highest levels, before it implements a new technology.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Blade |
| Manufacturer: | Huawei Symantec |
| Manufacturer: | Symantec |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Telecoms |
Tintri & Washington State University Case Study
The College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) at WSU wanted to virtualize student desktops to deliver a cost-effective and secure environment while reducing operating costs. Initial attempts to deploy a VDI solution were not successful, as existing storage could not provide the needed performance. At its Pullman campus, The CEA at WSU deployed a Tintri T540 system that provided 13.5TB usable capacity in a single datastore for providing virtual desktops.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Engineering |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
Tintri & SonicWALL Case Study
At San Jose, SonicWALL implemented Tintri T445 to consolidate multiple datastores into a single 8.5TB datastore. Customer quote - "After implementing the Tintri, we are better equipped to run multiple concurrent performance-intensive tasks like cloning VMs from vCenter for setting up test and dev environments and multiple application testing setups. Any new VM can go onto Tintri and I know it will perform well."
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | IT |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
Datastore365 leads industry with hybrid cloud storage solution
Datastore365 provides easily-managed, affordable, secure online backup to businesses, organisations and individuals throughout the UK and Europe. The company’s customers range from one-person offices to large corporations with hundreds of locations. The Managed Service Provider (MSP) prides itself on procuring future-proofed solutions that can be tailored to the requirements of each business, ensuring that even small but fast-growing businesses with limited IT budgets can rest assured that their data is safeguarded.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Manufacturer: | Huawei Symantec |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | IT |
Digital Chocolate and Tintri Case Study
Digital Chocolate is a market leading mobile and social networking game publisher, known for such popular titles as Army Attack, Zombie Lane and Millionaire City. Historically, Digital Chocolate hosted and delivered games in a public cloud. As demand exploded, Digital Chocolate wanted to unlock the benefits of having both a public and private cloud to optimise both flexibility and costs.
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
Tintri - Semmes-Murphey Case Study
Three years ago, Semmes-Murphey initiated a shift from a physical environment to a virtualized environment. Starting with a few pilot virtual servers, early success and a strong ROI facilitated a transition to fully virtualize nearly all key infrastructure. Currently, only a few physical servers remain. Semmes-Murphey’s next major initiative is leveraging virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to reduce PC support costs and provide wider system access to healthcare staff, while meeting regulatory and security requirements. However, challenges with their existing storage infrastructure stalled the initiative.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
Fugro Data Solutions Secures Worldwide Reputation with Scalable Backup Solution from ExaGrid that Delivers 80:1 Data Deduplication Ratio
Fugro Data Solutions group of companies (Fugro) offers an exhaustive range of Data Management and Data Conditioning Services complemented by various in-house developed applied technology products. Its services range from Physical Warehousing, Physical Asset Management Solutions, Data Conditioning Services, Exploration and Reservoir Services, License Round Management, National Data Repositories, GIS services, Industry specific training and Consultancy. Its applied technology products target the generic need for optimum utilization of available data and data integration. The success of Fugro Data Solutions has enabled it to become a global company with operations in the UK, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, India, Singapore, Libya, Oman and Australia.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | IT |
| Sector: | Technology |
TIBCO deploy Tintri VMstore to enable business continuity strategy
TIBCO Software Inc. provides infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. Whether for efficient claims or trade processing, cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides companies the two-second advantage™ – the ability to capture the right information, at the right time, and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes, and applications in real time.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
KEMP MoneyWeek case study
The majority of organisations rely on email as their prime communication medium; however email in a magazine publishing environment is critical. Magazines survive on their bility to get the scoop or insight on stories and much of that is about speed – particularly for a weekly publication like MoneyWeek which is producing numerous stories each week for the magazine and website. Following a number of technical planning and scoping sessions with the System Professional project team, a revised design and project plan was agreed for the Exchange 2010 upgrade. This involved an initial server virtualisation of the MoneyWeek infrastructure and the introduction of two storage area networks.
Download Link| Technology: | Data Centres |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
| Manufacturer: | Kemp |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
FalconStor NSS ensures that the dramas at this international law firm take place in the courtroom, not the data center
Leading law firm Kennedys has doubled in size in the last four years, and boasts offices in numerous locations across the UK, as well as in Spain, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore, and New Zealand. In July 2008 the firm amalgamated its three London offices into a single new location in London, close to many of its UK clients. This date was the culmination of a threeyear project to entirely revamp the firm’s IT infrastructure – including the implementation of new storage services intended to provide comprehensive backup and disaster recovery (DR).
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
London Medical turns to the cloud to cure data headache
In the past 5 years, London Medical has grown from an 8-man company to an organisation employing 70 people. Following business expansion, with the resultant increased patient intake, London Medical was faced with exponential data growth and the associated storage requirements. As a busy outpatient centre, London Medical needs to securely store vast amounts of patient data, in compliance with the Data Protection Act. However, this information also has to be readily accessible to consultants and support staff and stored in a format that can be easily but securely distributed offsite to GPs and other medical professionals.
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THE BUSINESS CASE FOR VIRTUALIZED I/O
Server connectivity costs are a large and growing issue in many enterprise data centers. Virtualized servers require more bandwidth and more connections to external network and storage resources. Traditional servers also require more connectivity as IT managers seek to increase the flexibility and utilization of these assets. The result is increased connectivity costs, an expense that can run tens of thousands of dollars per server over the life of the device.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
SeaBright Ensures Better Backups with ExaGrid
For years, SeaBright Insurance had been backing up its data electronically using an online backup system. The solution backed up data locally to a disk array and then sent a copy of the backup to a designated offsite location for storage, where the data was kept for a year. The legacy system didn’t support tape so it was nearly impossible for the company to meet retention periods mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
Saul Ewing Increases Retention, Makes Backups Faster with ExaGrid
The IT department at Saul Ewing had been backing up data from its nine offi ces to a storage area network (SAN) and tape but grappled with long backup times and retention issues on a daily basis. Due to limited disk space, the firm offl oaded its data to tape on a daily basis because it could only keep a day of Exchange data and a week of file system data on the SAN. In all, the firm spent nearly $2,000 per month on tape. Backup times were also long, with full backups running from Friday night until Monday morning and incremental backups running all night long.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
Objectivity Improves Backups with ExaGrid
For three years, the IT department at Objectivity had been using both a disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solution and a tape library to protect its data. The staff used he D2D product to back up its most critical data and a tape library for non-critical information and for long term storage. However, the first generation D2D solution was cumbersome and diffi cult to use and scalability was limited. The IT staff was also tired of dealing with tape.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
ExaGrid Provides Powered Backups for Maui Electric
Maui Electric’s IT department is responsible for providing a wide range of IT services throughout the company, including help desk services, equipment repair, network maintenance and data protection and backups. However, as the company’s data grew, its IT staff had trouble keeping up with routine backups to its storage-area network. With limited disk space, Maui Electric couldn’t keep much data on-site and the pressure of keeping up with daily backups strained IT operations. Each weekend, the company’s full backups stretched over 16 hours, far exceeding the company’s 12-hour target backup window and network performance was beginning to be affected.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
Johnson Health Network Cures Backup Pain With ExaGrid
Johnson Health Network is expanding its data center and deploying an electronic medical records system enabling the organization to transition the storage of its e-patient information from an ASP solution to onsite. This data growth, combined with the need for a tighter disaster recovery plan, motivated the health network to seek alternatives to its existing backup process which involved writing some backups to their primary storage array and some to a tape-based backup system.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
Firelands Regional Medical Center Simplifi es Backups with ExaGrid
The IT staff at Firelands backs up its electronic medical records system and other critical data in real time to a storage-area network (SAN), but the tape library the facility used for nightly backups was often down due to mechanical issues.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Streamlines Backups, Saves Money with Disk-based Backup
FMCS’s IT department is responsible for supporting 500 users in 250 different offi ces throughout the U.S. The agency conducts much of its business over the web and protects lots of different types of data, including information from web, database, Blackberry and email servers that are located in its Washington, D.C. datacenter and are used to support its day-to-day business activities. The staff had been backing up the agency’s data to a disk array for short term storage and then sent the backups to tape each night for long term storage. Each week, the IT staff mailed out tapes to a secure facility for safekeeping, but with a three year retention mandate, the cost of tape, mailing and offsite storage was a budget-buster.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance Group Gains Faster Backups with ExaGrid
With nearly 20TB of data to protect, it’s critical that Mutual of Enumclaw’s backup systems operate as efficiently as possible. Each night, the company’s IT department had been backing up data to a competing deduplication storage system and then to tape, but slow system performance led to long backup times. Weekly full backups to the competing system took over 38 hours and incremental backups took 12 to 18 hours to complete each night. Tape copies ran nearly continuously.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
Elektroskandia Gains Increased Retention, Scalabilty with ExaGrid
Elektroskandia’s IT department purchased a disk-based backup system without data deduplication several years ago but retention became a serious issue as the company’s data grew. “We had outgrown our old disk-based backup solution and retention had become a big problem. We could only hold a week of backup data online, so we had to recall tapes from storage if we needed to restore a file that was over seven days old,” said Kenneth Eriksson, IT support manager for Elektroskandia. “We needed a scalable solution with data deduplication to maximize our disk space and increase the amount of data available to us for restores.”
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
BayHealth Medical Center Increases Retention, Improves Disaster Recovery with ExaGrid
Bayhealth is an award winning healthcare company that prides itself on using cutting edge technology to automate its processes and operations. Bayhealth’s IT staff had been backing up the facility’s data to its storage-area network (SAN) for some time, but without data deduplication, disk space had become a serious issue. The SAN was only capable of retaining a week of data, and the staff had to copy nightly backups to tape and transport the tapes offsite in case the data was needed for disaster recovery.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Sport |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Transport |
Efficient, Secure Storage for Penson Financial Means Top-Notch Service for Its Clients
You might think that when Penson Financial Services started looking for a new storage area network (SAN) system in 2005, Xiotech would have had an inside track; after all, Penson had been a Xiotech® customer for five years at the time. “Xiotech’s Magnitude® system worked well for us,” says Director of Enterprise Systems Matt Pittman. “But a lot changes in five years, and we wanted to give ourselves and the vendors a fair chance, so we started from scratch.”
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Financial Services |
WMHT Educational Telecommunications (WMHT)
WMHT currently multi-casts three Standard Definition channels and plans to produce its own High Definition content in the near future. The broadcaster needed a long-term storage solution for video asset management, and more storage space to grow the archive. “Our Spectra T120 was a workhorse, but our growth demanded a larger library with more storage space,” said Anthony Tassarotti, CTO of WMHT.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
Versus
Versus archives thousands of hours of high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) broadcast digital media content. The company must also operate a constant archive of all digital media content. When Versus initiated its plan to broadcast in digital (SD and later to HD) the company began to review all options available and selected a Spectra digital archive system due to Spectra’s broad acceptance in the media and entertainment market, as well as meeting Versus’ other storage requirements.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
Tupperware
Tupperware is the leading manufacturer of kitchen and home plastic solutions. Behind the solid products lies asolid IT department. This crucial business group manages the main backup system comprised of corporate documentsand customer records produced by the entire organization. Tupperware's IT architect, Bill Slaughter, oversees multiple backup processes for the companies multi-TeraByte storage infrastruture.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Select Florida Community College
SFCC originally used a large DLT system to store and protect campus data, including student faculty records and email - backing up 400GB of campus files every night, seven days a week. The system did not have the capacity to back up both UNIX and windows servers simultaneously, which caused an extra headache for the IT group. After using previous systemfor five years, the IT staff decided to shop around for a more updated storage library to back up and store campus information.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Sask Energy
SaskEnergy staggers its 500GB nightly backups, which run from 8PM to 5AM, to avoid interruption of critical business processes. The IT staff backs up over 170 server clients each night incrementally, and most nightly backup data is sent offsite for archival. Development and test data is kept for a shorter period time and may or may not be sent off-site, depending on policies. The company retains a copy of production data, both on-site and off-site, for five years. SaskEnergy began to review high-end storage libraries that could offer great capacity, speed, scalability and performance to manage a fast growing data environment.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Crawford Communications inc.
Crawford had an estimated half-terrabyte data store on hard to manage tapes - and the amount of data was projected to increase to nearly two petabytes by the end of 2005. Crawford's Encompass team recommended a transition to digital storage.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
New Braunfels Utilities (NBU)
“We originally used DLT tapes for backup, but the company was growing and the process eventually became inefficient,” noted Jay Jahns, IT technician for NBU. “We were also consuming disk space quickly and wanted to upgrade from DLT. It was time for a network makeover.” Additionally, NBU wanted to institute a strong retention policy with the new equipment implementation. NBU began to search for a D2D2T solution and reviewed products and proposals from several storage vendors.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Utilities |
Evite.com
Evite produces 1.4 TB of data from its Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) production database. The company wanted to formalize an offsite backup process with new equipment and Iron Mountain archival services. Evite mainly considered offsite electronic backups, but costs associated were sky-high, and the large database would pose download bandwidth challenges. They needed a storage solution that would simplify the backup of a large database and wanted to avoid handling multiple tapes as part of the process. Evite began to review disk options.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
austin ventures
When Austin Ventures almost lost a $10 million deal opportunity because its Exchange cluster crashed for three business days, leaving the company without e-mail, Austin Ventures turned serious attention to disaster recovery practices and a slew of storage vendors. Spectra Logic’s ease of use, removal of administrative overhead, speed and reliability positioned it as the vendor of choice.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Spectra Logic |
| Technology: | Storage |
Victoria and Albert Museum
As the world’s largest art and design museum, the Victoria and Albert takes its responsibility to share its collection with the public very seriously. It developed a Digital Asset Management system to build a digital image archive of all collection pieces and needed a robust, scalable and easy-tomanage storage platform to support it. The Hitachi Data Systems solution it deployed will enable scalability for up to seven years and fits perfectly with its business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
Seamless Backup for Enterprising Education
A highly successful Catholic school in Hounslow, West London, St. Mark’s educates 1,200 students from ages 11 to 18. It is a forward thinking institution with the status of a technical college, so courses are becoming increasingly electronic, with strong demand for online availability of all course documents and resources. The school also offers all students capacity to store coursework and other relevant materials electronically. In order to support the students in their academic studies and ensure their coursework and resources are available to them during the day, this data needs to be backed up on to a robust storage system every night.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
Rothschild
As one of the world’s most prestigious financial organisations, Rothschild understands the need to ensure that its customer service is second to none. To enable employees to communicate quickly and effectively with each other and clients, the bank upgraded the storage platform that underpinned its Microsoft® Exchange environment. It implemented a tiered storage solution featuring hardware, software and services from Hitachi Data Systems. The increased capacity and performance have minimised wait time for employees receiving e-mail and creating documents, especially when they are using mobile devices to access the server.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
London-based business law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP (RPC) serves a wide client base, encompassing large multinationals through to small entrepreneurial businesses. Its team of 260 lawyers provide trusted counsel to UK and international clients, on projects spanning numerous jurisdictions. In order to ensure they can serve their clients in the most efficient and timely way possible, the company realised its need to upgrade the IT management platform that supported its Microsoft® Windows environment. Its traditional direct attached storage environment was fragmented and required expensive SCSI connections to link it to the PC network, so the IT team was keen to implement a more cost-effective, consolidated architecture.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Norwich Union
As part of one of the world’s largest insurance groups, Norwich Union holds vast amounts of unstructured client data. Its various business groups have tough IT requirements, presenting the team managing the infrastructure with the complex challenge of administering and allocating resources efficiently. In order to optimise IT budget and guarantee a reliable and flexible storage estate, Norwich Union migrated its platform to a complete solution from Hitachi Data Systems. It has seen immediate reductions in time and costs spent managing its growing data assets.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd., Sunderland Plant
With Nissan manufacturing plants being opened across Eastern Europe, the company’s operations were relying heavily upon shared applications across the network. Nissan was also under pressure to reduce costs while improving efficiency; the company’s Sunderland, United Kingdom, manufacturing plant needed an ultra-reliable storage infrastructure to ensure data was always available and protected. The Hitachi TagmaStore® Universal Storage Platform with Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage provided the structure and security Nissan required to create a more efficient business environment.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
News International
News International, the UK subsidiary of News Corporation, owns and publishes four of the most popular news titles in the UK, including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The News of the World, as well as the free evening paper, thelondonpaper. The company also hosts and manages the online publications associated with these sites, such as TimesOnline and Page3.com. In order to meet strict print deadlines and ensure the Web sites are up to date with the latest news and features for their readers, News International needs to maintain a highly flexible and responsive IT infrastructure. Its IT systems manage not only company e-mail, file storage and hosting of publication Web sites but also the workflows used to collate the newspapers digitally before they are sent to press.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
National Library of Scotland
Scotland’s legal deposit library for all publications produced in the United Kingdom needed to have the storage capacity to make all its collection-related data accessible to the public and develop a digital repository to keep its extensive archive safe for prosperity. It therefore developed a digital repository and chose to power it with Hitachi storage hardware and software. The advanced scalability and reliability of the solution mean that documents ranging from historical manuscripts to online magazines are now available to users across the globe, 24 hours a day.
Download Link| Sector: | Legal |
| Technology: | Storage |
Michelmores LLP
Michelmores LLP is a leading regional law firm with 290 employees across three sites in London and the Southwest of England. Growing fast in a competitive market, the firm required a new storage architecture to support its current IT requirements and provide a platform for future improvements, such as e-mail compliance and workflow management. Through IP infrastructure specialist ABSNet, Michelmores deployed a Hitachi Data Systems solution and has benefited from increased flexibility, scalability, and resilience.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Kiln Ltd
With strong business growth in the UK supplemented with acquisitions abroad, Kiln Ltd needed a reliable, scalable storage platform to cope with its ever increasing data demands. A Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 in its central data centre and a Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 500 in its remote site enabled Kiln to support its existing data resources and prepare for continued growth.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Kennedys
Accelerated business growth at insurance law firm Kennedys has resulted in new offices and an influx of lawyers and other staff worldwide. Consolidation of its London offices to a new headquarters in London provided the ideal opportunity to upgrade its core IT infrastructure to meet the firm’s changing IT demands and future requirements. As part of a data centre overhaul, Kennedys deployed a Hitachi Data Systems storage solution to support both its escalating data requirements and business continuity. The new disaster recovery plan alone has saved it £200,000 per year.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
Jubilee International High School
Jubilee International High School is located in Runnymede, Surrey, and has a student population of almost 700 and 120 staff members. It prides itself on its innovative approaches to all aspects of learning, such as forging strong links with partner schools across the globe and developing an exemplary Performing Arts department. In order to ensure that both pupils and teachers have access to essential coursework and resources while increasing the size of the student body, the school needed to implement a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure. Its existing fragmented data storage platform was reaching the end of its life and could not provide the capacity and scalability needed to meet the school’s goal of making itself an IT leader. Its backup system also needed to be modernised to keep students’ work safe, as it was based on a tape library solution which was inefficient and costly.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Insight Investment
Market leading asset management company Insight Investment needed a more efficient, reliable IT infrastructure to allow the company to continue its period of successful growth. By virtualising its existing systems behind the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V with Hitachi software, the company has created an easy-to-manage, highly visible storage environment with unexpected performance benefits.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Infoterra
Infoterra, a leading provider of geo-information products and services, delivers reliable geospatial knowledge to customers worldwide — when and where they need it. In order to provide this innovative service, the company required a data storage solution that could cope with vast geospatial mapping image files, which often reach 8 to 12 terabytes (TB) in size, and make them readily available for customers to access. Through leading IT reseller S3, Infoterra deployed Hitachi hardware and software to meet this business challenge.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
E.ON IS
E.ON IS UK, founded in January 2006, is a subsidiary of E.ON IS GmbH. With a team of over 400 employees, E.ON IS UK is the IT shared service provider for E.ON UK. Keen to optimise the energy efficiency of its data centre and create a virtualised, easyto-manage storage environment, it worked with Hitachi Data Systems to devise a migration strategy. By incorporating additional capacity and using Hitachi software to migrate data, it has simplified its storage management and improved its business performance.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
De Montfort University
With the University degree program moving towards a modular-based structure and students working across different faculties or schools, De Montfort University needed a single view of its disorganized and dispersed data. A storage area network built on Hitachi high-end modular storage and the advanced management capabilities of Hitachi HiCommand® Suite software enabled De Montfort University to consolidate, access, and back up all of its information in one complete system.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Conwy County Borough Council
Serving 111,300 residents in North Wales, Conwy County Borough Council’s disparate storage environment needed consolidating to support new internal systems and a developing disaster recovery plan. Through IT solutions provider Viglen, the council deployed Hitachi hardware and software, providing sufficient capacity to meet future needs as well as a platform for disaster recovery, consolidating remote and local servers and reducing deployment costs by typically £3,200 per server.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
City College Manchester
One of the UK’s largest educational facilities, City College Manchester supports a growing number of students from around the world, and over 1,200 employees. In order to provide 24/7 access to essential materials and services online, the college needed a data storage and protection system to support this continued growth. Through IT solutions provider Viglen, the college deployed Hitachi hardware and software and now enjoys enhanced information availability for students and teachers.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
BT Retail - a BT Business Group
As it evolved from the world’s oldest communications company to one of the leading providers of communications solutions across the globe, BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) has always been at the forefront of innovative communication services. When BT Retail, one of its group businesses, introduced a new portfolio of consumer Internet products and services, it selected Hitachi Data Systems to help manage its storage demands.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Retail |
Accident Exchange
Industry leading accident management service provider Accident Exchange needed a foolproof disaster recovery plan and scalable storage infrastructure to support its rapidly expanding business. With a dual centre enterprise solution comprising the Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformTM V and software, including Hitachi Protection Manager, the company has ensured it meets compliance demands and empowered its staff to deliver optimal customer service.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Bishop Burton College
Campus expansion and the ever-increasing generation of electronic data led Bishop Burton College, an education institute in the North of England, to invest, re-design, and centralize management of its data storage network. With the Plug-and-play SAN Kit for Hitachi TagmaStore® Modular Storage, Hitachi Data Systems provided a scalable and robust solution, supporting future growth and making it possible for Bishop Burton College to reduce IT costs and efficiently allocate storage resources.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Education |
Atos Origin Meets Challenging Utility-Managed Service Requirements for Leading Health Care Organisation
As a leading international IT services company, Atos Origin takes seriously its responsibility to deliver continuously improved offerings for both new and existing clients in order to stay at the head of the market. As part of supplying consulting, systems integration, and managed operations to a major UK health care provider over an initial seven year period, Atos Origin sought Hitachi Data Systems’ support in implementing an innovative IT storage architecture to meet its customer’s changing demands and industry challenges.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Hitachi Data Systems |
| Technology: | Storage |
Hitachi Storage Supports Superior Patient Care
Providing essential health services to people across East Lancashire, UK, Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust (PCT) enables the people in the area to “Live longer, live better.” In order to ensure hospitals, general practices, dentists and other essential services are fully operational and able to deliver superior patient care 24 hours a day, the PCT’s IT department needs to maintain access to critical data for the 5000 staff across some 85 sites at all times.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
CNP consolidates data and accelerates applications with Steelhead appliances
Based in Esher, Surrey and, initially, with two satellite offices connected via a 1 Mbps, ADSL-based VPN, CNP’s original network was designed to meet the needs of a successful regional building & construction consultancy. A Microsoft Exchange Server at each site delivered Outlook email to its 110 staff, and a Blackberry remote access terminal server supported mobile workers. Back-up and storage was via a mixture of in-house tape libraries and third-party online services.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Construction |
Riverbed Steelhead® Appliances Enable Faster Research and Development for Global Optical Networking Manufacturer
ADVA Optical Networking (www.advaoptical.com, FSE: ADV) is at the forefront of providing Optical+Ethernet solutions that advance next-generation networks for data, storage, voice and video services. ADVA’s strength comes from passionate and dedicated employees, all sharing a common vision: a fast, customized response to customers’ ever-changing needs. The company’s innovative Fiber Service Platform (FSP) and strong customer focus provide carriers and enterprises the ability to scale their networks and deliver intelligent, competitive new services. ADVA’s solutions have been deployed at more than 100 carriers and 5,000 enterprises in more than 40 countries worldwide.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Technology: | Voice and Video |
| Sector: | Research |
A breakthrough in the search for energy.
Kelman Technologies Uses Clustered Storage to Help Locate Oil And Gas Reserves Faster, More Reliably and With Less Cost Kelman Technologies Inc. (KTI) is a publicly traded Canadian company with offices in Calgary and Toronto in Canada, Denver, Houston and Oklahoma City in the United States, and London and Tripoli. KTI provides a full suite of seismic processing and online data management and archival services that its customers use to locate oil and gas reserves.
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StarLight Connects Global Research Community Using Force10 TeraScale E-Series
Sharing ideas and data as well as equipment is crucial for scientists and researchers who are pushing the frontiers of physics, astronomy, biology, and other fields. Today, all science is “e-science,” and researchers need to be able to remotely access data generated by costly instruments, such as supercomputers or storage systems, and distributed computational resources, regardless of where in the world they reside.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Research |
force10_grid_tech_research.pdf
The rapid succession of technical developments in the world of information technology (IT) are leading to new computational performance horizons — and one of the topics that is currently commanding a great deal of attention is Grid computing. That’s because by integrating a single unit that combines a ""grid"" of multiple computers and storage devices, researchers are discovering they can share data scattered across many locations throughout the world and attain computational speeds exceeding that of a traditional mainframe computer.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
CIS Hollywood Buffs Up Its Infrastructure With BlueArc Storage and Force10’s Core Switch
Staying ahead of the performance curve is always a challenge – even more so for visual effects house CIS Hollywood, which creates 500 gigabytes to one terabyte of data daily. For CIS Hollywood’s IT team, the challenge is to maintain an infrastructure that can keep up with the increasing complexity of special effects projects as well as the company’s growth.
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| Technology: | Storage |
Iceland Seafood International
Iceland Seafood International (ISI), one of the largest food export and marketing organisations in a country that is one of the world’s largest fish exporters, has teamed with SecurStore, the Icelandic storage services provider, for managed backup and recovery services, which deploys Asigra’s Televaulting software.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Food |
Hogan and Hartson LLP
In the past, Hogan and Hartson LLP utilized DLT or LTO Tape backups via Veritas. This old method created challenges. The time it took to do backups and restores often exceeded the window of time available, the tapes, off site storage, and pick up were not cost effective and technical problem with hung drives required servers to be rebooted. There was also a heavy reliance on man power within the various offices to swap the tapes necessary for correct backups.
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