Dutch software vendor deploys new servers and storage in minutes and consolidates hardware by up to 66 per cent with virtualization
Filter manufacturer cuts power use by around 60 per cent with virtualized server and storage infrastructure
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Acme recognized that it needed to reevaluate its disaster recovery strategy. As part of this move, the company started embracing virtualization, using VMware® Infrastructure 3 to virtualize its mission-critical applications and Dell EqualLogic™ virtualized iSCSI SANs to provide an enterprise storage infrastructure that would be easy to deploy, manage and grow.
AirClic, Inc., a provider of mobile information services, needed a high-performance storage environment for growing a highly transactional Oracle database requiring continuous uptime. The company implemented a tiered PS Series SAN, with tier one dedicated to the database while tier two stores data for email, files, and other databases.
Dutch raw materials distributor reduces management costs by approximately €10,000 over three years with Dell EqualLogic arrays.
Information has become a key component of human services programs. Bay Cove Human Services, a non-profit organization that delivers a range of services related to mental illness, drug dependency, and developmental disabilities, uses electronic data stored on an EqualLogic PS Series SAN to ensure that their programs are successful, cost effective, and, most important, delivering the right services to the right people.
Bribus Keukens, one of the Netherlands’ top three kitchen manufacturers, dramatically eliminated performance bottlenecks and enabled scalability without downtime with an EqualLogic PS Series SAN.
Brookfield Homes, a premier home builder with national operations, needed a new approach for managing its storage and archiving its emails for Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance. After deploying EqualLogic with Mimosa Systems archiving software for Microsoft Exchange Server, Brookfield’s Southland division expanded the PS Series’ use to support its VMware ESX Server deployment and critical SQL Server business applications...
Bull, Housser & Tupper, a Canadian law firm with more than 100 lawyers, deployed an EqualLogic SAN to migrate from DAS and consolidate all of the firm’s data in a single, protected repository.
Maritime centre of excellence saves several hours a week on management with simplified and secure infrastructure
Once Chicago Record Management leveraged its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN to launch new digital imaging and electronic backup services, IT decided to move all critical application data to it. Now they feel confident that growth and success won’t result in service disruption.
Citizant enhances IT flexibility and scalability by creating a virtualized Dell infrastructure that will pay for itself in 18 months
One of Oregon’s largest, Clackamas County government is responsible for all state services – including transportation, public health, public safety, social services, and more – for almost 350,000 citizens. IT staff replaced a fibre channel SAN supporting mission critical SQL Server, Exchange, and PeopleSoft applications with an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, resulting in a more scalable, cost-effective, manageable infrastructure that provides storage consolidation and vastly improved data protection...
Dell ProConsult Services helps Canada’s College of the North Atlantic design and deploy a virtualized disaster recovery environment that protects data and will save CAD$300,000 over four years
An internationally recognized scientific research university housing eight colleges, 55 academic departments, 25,000 students, and 3,000 faculty and staff, CSU consolidated and standardized its email/calendaring system on Exchange 2007 with an 8-TB EqualLogic PS Series SAN. IT has maintained its “no complaints” policy while delivering 100% uptime, faster performance, and non-disruptive scalability.
Columbia implemented a virtual environment using DellTM PowerEdgeTM servers and a Dell EqualLogicTM storage area network (SAN) to enable rapid deployment of new servers and storage capacity and help eliminate downtime.
With 300 employees and annual revenues of about $5 million, CHP of Wisconsin provides long-term and medical care management for the elderly and others in need. Replacing DAS with an EqualLogic SAN, CHP built an efficient, cost-effective storage infrastructure that includes snapshots, replication to another EqualLogic SAN at a disaster recovery site, simple management, and easy growth – all without high costs and complexity.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology pairs Dell servers with Intel processor technology, and Dell EqualLogic storage to save six figures
Cypress Corporation provides content management and document delivery to some of the largest healthcare, insurance, and auto manufacturing companies across the globe. Needing a better infrastructure for growth and data recovery, Cypress installed PS Series arrays at its primary and remote data centers for disaster recovery, and now replicates without network or application disruption – providing better backup and recovery, eliminating a myriad of tape and DAS devices, and simplifying management.
Deeley Harley-Davidson® Canada finds business agility in IT virtualization, reducing deployment time for new services
and eliminating 40 percent of its physical servers.
Belgian bank reduces IT energy costs by up to €9,000 a year with Dell virtualized server and storage platform
For this Oregon county government, critical applications such as MS SQL, Exchange, and Oracle support services that include assessment and taxation, public safely, events, and imaging for the County Clerk, Community Development, and geographic information systems. To reduce downtime, simplify management of a distributed environment, and enable growth, the county replaced DAS with a PS Series SAN and has reduced management time and effort while improving performance.
This 125-year-old law firm delivers comprehensive legal services to clients of all sizes. Challenged to deliver high availability, high performance, and disaster recovery for key collaboration and document management applications in a distributed environment, Dickinson Wright implemented blade servers and an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. The company now enjoys snapshot-based backup using VSS, MPIO, non-disruptive growth, automatic load-balancing, and replication for DR.
Encare provides human resource services to 22,000+ companies and 650,000+ employees in Belgium and the Netherlands. The company needed scalability and more efficient, cost-effective backup, so they replaced DAS with a PS Series SAN. Snapshots have eliminated backup windows, growth is non-disruptive, performance has improved dramatically, and the system is easy to use.
ENGlobal reduces storage management time by 50% and improves data protection with Symantec software on Dell systems.
A virtualized infrastructure built on Dell servers and storage enables Enterasys to migrate to a new data center in just six weeks and saves an estimated US$300,000 a year.
Swiss manufacturer installs out-of-the-box storage area network in less than half an hour.
A large health and beauty products retailer in the Netherlands and Sweden, ETOS needed to replace EMC and IBM storage with a system that was simple and economical to implement and maintain. ETOS’s EqualLogic SAN was set up quickly, delivers more throughput, and includes greater functionality that the fibre channel solutions at a much lower cost.
University cuts infrastructure cost by 16 per cent with standards-based HPC solution
Five is a national broadcaster in the UK, providing television programming across three channels plus an on-demand download service. The company installed multiple PS Series arrays to achieve a scalable, cost-effective, centrally managed storage infrastructure with DR for data and media files. Virtual storage and VMware together have improved availability and enabled business continuity.
This Florida equipment sales, service, and leasing company wanted to eliminate outsourcing and bring IT in-house. EqualLogic enabled Flagler to build an infrastructure from scratch that includes advanced functionality and yet is simple to use, affordable, and fast to implement.
North American/Caribbean IT Services for this global financial services organization reside in the Cayman islands, where hurricanes can wreak havoc on data centers. To ensure reliability, availability of applications hosted in Europe, and regulatory compliance, Fortis consolidated storage onto an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN and reduced backup/restore time, implemented DR, and improved scalability while saving on bandwidth costs.
The small IT team of this global beverage distributor’s European division uses an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN and VMware VI3 to provide remote access for mobile workers as well as ERP, productivity applications, and email to employees across the region.
This leading-edge engineering college uses a fully converged IP network that connects most campus equipment. DAS couldn’t support the advanced services, rapid growth, and flexibility required; Olin installed a PS Series SAN to supply these features as well as snapshots and remote replication.
Server downtime and maintenance at global consultancy Gallup interfered with sensitive projects and strained the limits of the ultra-lean IT administration team. A virtual server farm using VMware® Infrastructure 3 on DellTM PowerEdgeTM 2900 servers and an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogicTM PS3900 and PS-84E devices was designed to eliminate downtime and simplify or eradicate many maintenance tasks.
This Dutch municipal government needed a disaster recovery solution that would guarantee business continuity for three municipalities and enable cost-effective replication over distance for its Windows/Oracle/blade server environment.
GHS Data Management (GHS) is a healthcare management company that provides data capture and processing solutions to government agencies, medical associations, HMOs, and hospitals. GHS’ business was growing across the country and required another 12 terabytes of storage to support database growth from new customers and services and needed a more fault-tolerant storage platform than their DAS system.
Green Spot reduces system downtime by 75 percent and lowers total cost of ownership by 50 percent with virtualized Dell solution
Grontmij is a European engineering consulting firm whose 7,000 employees in 130 offices are engaged in construction, infrastructure, environment, water, energy and industry projects. The company needed a storage solution to support its Microsoft DPM implementation for automatic backup of branch locations to a central data center.
School builds IT environment with Dell, eliminating unplanned downtime and cutting technical helpdesk calls by around 90 per cent.
The third largest city school system in Alabama, Hoover City Schools enrolls more than 12,000 students. For its Microsoft-focused environment (including Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, and DPM), Hoover City needed to consolidate from DAS, protect data in a prime tornado area, and comply with state archiving requirements.
Leading web host builds award-winning energy-efficient datacenter in partnership with Dell
Based on the success of the virtualization effort to date, the Dell IT team is continuing to virtualize the IT infrastructure and update the standard Dell model. For example, the team plans to change the storage portion of the model to include Dell EqualLogic™ PS5000XV Series SANs based on cost-effective IP technology. Team members expect to reach a total of 800 VMware ESX Server hosts and 8,000 to 9,000 virtual servers by early 2009, for a cumulative savings of US$52,450,000.
Hypnion is a drug discovery company developing new therapeutics for central nervous system disorders. The company needed to replace its complicated fibre channel SAN to support Exchange, Oracle, and file services with an affordable, easy to use, reliable storage solution offering features such as Boot from SAN, high availability, and multi-pathing.
I-Business Network (I-BN) is an application service provider (ASP) specializing in the provisioning of financial, e-commerce and business process systems to small and medium-sized companies. To improve scalability, optimize server hardware and simplify operations, I-BN turned to a virtualization infrastructure based upon the integration of the Citrix® XenServer™, Enterprise Edition server virtualization solution and the Dell EqualLogic PS5000E iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solution.
Dutch IT service provider can launch new servers and storage up to 75 per cent faster thanks to virtualization.
EqualLogic PS300E SAN array provides centralised storage that is easy to manage and responsive to business needs.
This managed service provider offers hosting, collocation, and bandwidth to customers around the world. The company needed to replace DAS to improve service delivery, increase customer uptime, and ease backup/recovery.
This Connecticut regional healthcare provider includes a hospital and outpatient surgery, occupational medicine, physical therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, and cancer centers. Johnson Health wanted to replace its fibre channel SAN to simplify storage management and bring it in-house to support growth, flexibility, and online data recovery.
This 4th largest Illinois county provides transportation, health, public safety, tax collection, law enforcement, and other critical services to almost 500,000 residents. The county needed to move from mainframe to leading edge technologies in a budget-constrained environment, increasing application and data availability, consolidating resources, and cutting space, power, and HVAC costs – without increasing IT staff.
Virtualization helps Kyocera Communication Systems save on total cost of ownership and open up new business opportunities
This non-profit organization dedicated to organ donation includes multiple laboratory, medical, surgical, and organ procurement divisions in the southeast US, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Dependable disaster recovery for transplant-related data is literally a life-and-death requirement with data stored in hurricane zones.
By combining Dell’s advanced virtualized iSCSI SANs with VMware, LuLu has created an intelligent, fully virtual IT infrastructure that is easy to manage, auto-load balancing and seamless to scale.
Dell helps Mahoning County reduce power and cooling by 35%, allocate storage in 1 hour and meet 2-week window for implementing ERP system
The financial services department of a major university cuts disaster recovery time from days to seconds with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage arrays and VMware Site Recovery Manager
McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%
MediSync provides healthcare practice management services to physician groups. The company implemented a PS Series SAN to upgrade and consolidate its infrastructure to provide flexibility, disk-based backup, remote replication, and business continuance.
With twelve years of record growth plus new acquisitions, this diversified Chicago financial services provider needed to migrate from DAS to a scalable, networked storage environment supporting heterogeneous operating systems.
This 99-year-old college of liberal and applied arts and sciences wanted to replace its fibre channel SAN to simplify storage management and allocation across campus, reduce costs, and provide complete data protection and disaster recovery.
German manufacturer cuts server footprint by around 47 per cent with new datacentre
Hi-tech Swedish firm saves up to SEK200,000 a year in hardware costs from virtualized storage and servers.
Missouri Employers Mutual is the largest worker’s compensation insurer in the state. The company implemented a PS Series SAN to improve performance and reduce costs for Exchange and Oracle across Windows and Linux environments.
This eCommerce solution provider delivers “point, click, and sell” Internet, storage, and hosted eCommerce application services to companies of all sizes. When the company’s NAS solution couldn’t keep up with growth, MyCart turned to EqualLogic to deliver critical web performance, partner compliance requirements, and automated backup.
Swedish hosted services provider consolidates cloud computing environment by almost 87 per cent and halves power consumption
NASA’s Langley Research Center focuses on exploring the frontiers of space, aeronautics, and atmospheric sciences. A PS Series SAN was implemented to build a fault-tolerant, collaborative knowledge base supporting numerous document and image formats and provide information protection.
National Aquarium Baltimore doubles user productivity by migrating to Microsoft Windows Vista on Dell desktops and laptops.
This flood insurance policy servicing and processing company needed to create a zero-downtime environment with simple management and growth. When the NAS system experienced both performance and replication problems, the company installed a PS Series SAN.
Navicure implemented a scalable, in-house storage area network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogicTM PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) arrays, and automated the planning, testing, and deployment of a disaster recovery solution using VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software and Dell EqualLogic SRM Adapters.
This 200-year-old Danish construction company wanted faster data recovery than tape could deliver; EqualLogic snapshots, remote replication, and consolidated backup now provide a flexible environment that’s easy to grow. Two EqualLogic PS200E arrays delivering storage consolidation, SAN boot, snapshot-based data restoration, and replication.
Belgium hosting company reduces power consumption by approximately 25 per cent with Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart servers
Dell storage solutions let NDTV India manage data growth with minimal IT staff and broadcast without unexpected technical difficulties.
The largest regional news network in the country, NECN serves more than 3.6 million homes throughout New England. An EqualLogic SAN provides consolidate storage, centralized backup, lower complexity and costs, and disaster recovery.
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council's storage virtualisation platform, based on EqualLogic’s PS Series arrays, will play a crucial role in helping the Council’s 650 employees deliver faster, more efficient services to more than 122,000 residents living in the Borough.
NCCU is a liberal arts institution with an increasing focus on science and technology. Faced with an inflexible DAS architecture and multiple platforms, NCCU needed a storage solution that would help eliminate server proliferation and supply high performance for an SCT Banner ERP upgrade as well as an Oracle database, a SAS data warehouse, and other key applications.
Northeast Bank reduces power and cooling costs by 25-30% with Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware
Optimal Blue anticipates 50% improvement in engine response time, giving mortgage sellers an edge with a high-performance pricing solution powered by Dell.
PacLib Group increases hardware utilization from 10 to 60 percent with a virtualized infrastructure based on Microsoft Hyper-V technology and Dell hardware
Patagonia, a leading manufacturer of outdoor clothing and technical apparel, migrated to an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN to consolidate a disparate set of direct attached storage (DAS) and simplify management and backup of the storage supporting its critical business services including supply chain and product lifecycle management. Since implementing the EqualLogic SAN, Patagonia has transitioned from tape backup to a disk-based backup method, cutting administration times.
Peterson Sullivan PLLC created a consolidated, scalable virtualized infrastructure with VMware® software, DellTM PowerEdgeTM servers, and Dell EqualLogicTM storage while enhancing data protection with Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition software for automated, integrated, and scalable protection of virtual machines.
PXP is an independent oil and gas company with facilities in California, Louisiana, and Texas. An EqualLogic iSCSI SAN helped them to smooth growth, eliminate downtime at offshore oil platforms, instantly recover from server faults, and support large capacity geophysical analysis applications.
PMMC runs SQL Server approximately 40 percent faster with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN; speeds storage provisioning for new clients.
Turkish hosting company reduces energy consumption by approximately 70 per cent with virtualized solution from Dell
This Dutch housing company is charged with renovating buildings, infrastructure, and the environment in various districts of the country. Rentree wanted to standardize information processes, prevent data duplication and loss, and deploy information management and business intelligence systems in a robust storage environment.
A Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage area network (SAN) enabled Safeway to eliminate the bottleneck, add new capabilities to the online application, and reduce storage administration time.
One of the 25 largest CPA firms in the US, Schenck replaced a fibre channel SAN with EqualLogic for simpler management, better application access, snapshots and remote replication, SAN boot, and non-disruptive provisioning.
Nearly 20% of the Dutch population has registered with Schoolbank.nl, a social networking website and software provider. Exponential growth and performance needs drove the company to implement an iSCSI SAN to replace DAS.
SDC Udvikling’s 150+ terabyte EqualLogic SAN is one of the largest iSCSI SANs in the world. Providing banking application services to banks across Denmark and Norway, SDC Udvikling need to deploy a secure, flexible, scalable SAN, with boot from SAN, storage tiers, and built-in intelligence.
Sequestered Solutions Alaska, LLC selects the dense, scalable, and easy-to-manage Dell EqualLogic storage array to support more than 160,000 potential new storage users.
Shiloh manufactures engineered steel products for automobile and heavy trucking manufacturers and suppliers. To solve the challenges of a distributed architecture with multiple operating systems and many critical applications, Shiloh implemented an EqualLogic SAN and VMware.
By implementing a Dell EqualLogic solution, SMOE reduces backup time by 70% and paves the way for virtualization
Snohomish School District extends refresh cycle for client hardware by a projected 160-200% using technologies from Dell, Intel and VMware
SoftLayer improves IT staff efficiency by 15% while introducing more flexible services for customers with Dell storage.
Stoneridge, a global manufacturer of automotive components, wanted to use state-of-the-art technologies to reduce complexity, reduce its IT footprint, and ultimately reduce the total cost of IT ownership. The company eliminated more than 50 percent of its physical servers through server virtualization, using a combination of DellTM PowerEdgeTM servers supported by Dell EqualLogicTM Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs).
Providing care for the disabled in the Netherlands, Talant turned to EqualLogic and VMware for a more flexible environment, easier growth, better utilization, and faster backup.
Spanish environmental business consolidates servers by approximately 63 per cent and doubles storage with virtualized infrastructure.
Wharton consolidated existing IBM BladeCenter and storage infrastructure onto the leaner, more powerful DellTM PowerEdgeTM M1000e blade enclosure with ultra-dense Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers running DellTM OpenManageTM and Dell EqualLogicTM PS5000X iSCSI SAN arrays.
A not-for-profit hospital serving central West Virginia, Thomas Memorial wanted to work smarter, not harder. With EqualLogic snapshots the hospital eliminated the 72-hour backup window, provides gold standard uptime, and scales easily.
This $10B heating and air conditioning company needed a storage solution that provided business continuance, lower costs, better storage provisioning, and SOX compliance.
Turner Padget effectively eliminates unplanned downtime and cuts server footprint by 50% with Dell solutions and VMware
This electronic gaming leader supports the professional Electronic Sports League, the largest computer gamer league in Europe with more than 630,000 members. Turtle implemented an EqualLogic SAN to handle monumental growth that overwhelmed its direct-attached storage (DAS) infrastructure.
The school district virtualized 114 servers onto seven Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers using VMware® Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series storage to provide support for individual “virtual lockers” for students in a new client environment powered by Stoneware® webNetwork software, Dell Latitude® laptops and Dell OptiPlex® desktops.
UM’s Department of Public Safety is a state-licensed law enforcement agency, protecting more than 39,000 students and thousands of faculty and staff across hundreds of building. Implementing a PS Series SAN was part of an effort to disaster-proof IT while reducing administrative effort and creating a foundation for advanced video surveillance.
Located near Stuttgart Germany, this prestigious university founded in the 15th century boasts an excellent local and international academic record. Known for technology innovation, the University’s Data Centre Institute ZDV was among the first to implement an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN to achieve snapshot-based backup, remote replication, fast performance, scalability, and high availability.
The Flemish Water Board (VMW) is responsible for providing high quality drinking water and managing waste water across Flemish Belgium. To improve utilization rates and provide a flexible storage environment that would support continued growth, VMW deployed an EqualLogic SAN.
As this Virginia university depends increasingly on technology, data needs and availability have become critical. Business continuance for its NetWare/Windows/Linux environment was impossible with DAS, and IT needed to increase storage capacity without disruption.
An integrated geophysical service company with locations in Houston and Dallas, Weinman’s seismic processing and analysis applications consume large amounts of storage. To eliminate the regular failures large files were causing in the NAS/SCSI environment, Weinman installed a multiple-array PS Series SAN.
Zenon is a leading provider of water purification system for municipalities and commercial markets around the world. Needing a long term storage solution providing scalability, advanced features with simple management, and lower costs, Zenon replaced fibre channel with an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN.
German hospital improves speed and availability with rapidly deployed Dell EqualLogic™ virtualized storage solution.
Founded by the creators of Staples Office Superstore, this award-winning dry cleaner is the largest on the US east coast, with more than 300,000 customers. Rapid and consistent growth prompted a move from fibre channel to an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN.