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B. Braun Medical Opts for Network Appliance Unified SAN and NAS Storage Solution | 2007-07-20 | Network Appliance (NetApp) |
| For the past 160 years, B. Braun has specialised in the design, production, and marketing of products and services for the worldwide healthcare industry. The challenge was to provide accessible storage for software data (NAS), Lotus Notes messaging data (SAN), and SAP production data (SAN) running on any Windows platform (CIFS), while ensuring data permanence. The solution is configured with a clustered FAS960 enterprise storage system, which provides centralised SAN storage for Lotus Notes, SAP applications running on an Oracle Database, and the company's IP telephony-based phone system.
Tags: NAS, SANs |
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Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Chooses Network Appliance for Operational and Archive Data | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Founded in 1838, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL) is India's largest media house. The Challenge was replace existing DAS with a more reliable, manageable, and highly scalable storage solution to deliver on-demand access to huge quantities of operational and archive data. The solution to this was achieved by deploying NetApp FAS series unified storage systems across multiple projects and application types, including BCCL's e-Paper, Comyan digital image library, and newspaper production systems.
Tags: NAS, SANs |
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BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre Speeds Biological Breakthroughs by Standardizing on Network Appliance | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) advances cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment via high-throughput genome mapping and DNA sequencing. The challenge was to scale to tens of millions of files and eliminate disruptive crashes. GSC also wanted to boost performance for heavy I/O and secure regulated patient data. The bulk of GSC data, including production pipelines for genome mapping and DNA sequencing, scientists' project data, computational analyses, encrypted patient data, and lab information management system data, resides on a high-end NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) system with 14TB capacity.
Tags: NAS |
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Clal Insurance Expands High-Availability Information Architecture With NetApp SAN and NAS Storage | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| The Clal Insurance IT function supports the organization's internal users plus some 5,500 external users, including insurance agents and their employees. The company wanted to replace a slow, inflexible, and fragmented storage infrastructure to improve efficiency and maximize availability for a SAP-based CRM system, Exchange, and other critical applications. The solution to this was achieved by standardizing on NetApp SAN and NAS storage and by implementing a remote disaster recovery strategy.
Tags: NAS, SANs |
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GoDaddy Stays #1 With High-Availability Infrastructure Powered by Network Appliance | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| GoDaddy.com (GoDaddy) holds the world's #1 ranking in new domain name registrations and domains under management. GoDaddy expects to grow 100% annually, stay flexible, and deliver best-value innovations and service. Objectives include a 3-second average site response time. GoDaddy standardized on NetApp FC SAN and NAS storage for mission-critical systems, including e-mail, hosting services, and SQL Server databases. NetApp enables high performance, DR, and nondisruptive expansion.
Tags: NAS, SANs |
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Logistics Management Firm Carries Information Load With NetApp Storage | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation (Cardinal) is one of the country's leading third-party logistics, transportation, and supply chain solutions providers. The company wanted to scale storage easily to accommodate rapid growth in information and improve reliability of backups. The company also wanted to reduce time needed to restore lost or corrupt information. The solution to this was integrated storage management and data protection system based on NetApp FAS storage systems and CommVault software.
Tags: NAS |
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Canon Europe Consolidates Company-Wide Storage With Network Appliance Solution | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Canon Europe is one of the three regional head offices of the Japanese company Canon Inc., one of the world's largest suppliers of office machines, cameras, and advanced optical equipment. As IT requirements continued to increase, a number of problems arose, primarily in the areas of management, backup, and disaster recovery. Although labor-intensive and inefficient, these processes were becoming increasingly important. As a result, the decentralized environment incurred a fairly high total cost of ownership (TCO). As a solution Canon Europe migrated to a Network Appliance Unified IP SAN and NAS environment.
Tags: SANs, Storage Consolidation |
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Cadence Design Systems Relies on High-Performance Storage From Network Appliance | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Cadence Design Systems is the leader in global electronic-design automation innovation. For Cadence's larger sites, the biggest challenge is managing the massive amounts of data. Maintaining this data-intensive environment is a constant challenge. Cadence relied on a heterogeneous storage environment in which all business groups independently selected their own storage subsystems. To simplify the environment, the Cadence North American IT Operations group elected to standardize on storage vendors and selected Network Appliance as the company's preferred vendor for NAS products.
Tags: NAS, Storage Consolidation |
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Ford Otosan Builds on NetApp SAN and NAS Solution for Faultless Disaster Recovery in an Earthquake Zone | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Ford Otosan is a joint venture between Ford Motor Company, the highly respected global automotive manufacturer, and Koc Holding, Turkey's leading conglomerate. The company wanted to support explosive growth and ensure uninterrupted availability. The company also wanted to ensure DR in an earthquake zone and streamline infrastructure management. A thorough review of storage solutions yielded a choice of two alternatives: a NetApp unified storage solution or a dedicated Fibre Channel SAN. The IT team ultimately selected the NetApp solution because it offered the highest levels of availability and protection at a lower total cost of ownership.
Tags: NAS |
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Folksamerica Reinsurance Company Executes on Strategic Vision for Companywide Information Accessibility | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Folksamerica Reinsurance Company is a leading multiline broker market reinsurer and a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. The Folksamerica vision involved the virtualization of user workstations using Citrix software to provide reliable, secure, and device- and location-independent access to information companywide. To support this goal, the IT team was tasked with building a storage infrastructure that would deliver maximum uptime, enable disaster recovery within hours, improve efficiency, facilitate rapid growth, and require minimal administrative resources. After several months of evaluation, the Folksamerica team determined that the optimal solution for their Citrix MetaFrame environment would involve Network Appliance storage.
Tags: SANs, Fibre |
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