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Dell Furthers Tullow Oil's Mission-Critical Explorations and Supports Its 30 Percent Growth Rate | 2008-07-01 | Dell |
| Founded in 1985, Tullow Oil (Tullow) is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in Europe. Tullow Oil required a highly available and resilient storage system, with a complete failover solution to support business solutions and increasing business growth in Pakistan. As a solution Dell deployed Dell enterprise servers and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions are used to deploy mission-critical enterprise applications.
Tags: Storage Management, SANs |
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Columbia Distributing Company Reduces Server Power Consumption by 65 Percent and Storage Administration Time by 90 Percent With a Virtualized Dell Infrastructure | 2008-07-01 | Dell |
| A huge increase in data processing and storage demands generated by increased business and new sales support technologies threatened to overburden Columbia's direct attach storage and aging server resources. As a solution Columbia implemented a virtual environment using Dell PowerEdge servers and a Dell EqualLogic Storage Area Network (SAN) to enable rapid deployment of new servers and storage capacity and help eliminate downtime. As a result Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services helped reduce implementation time by 35 percent for the server virtualization project.
Tags: Storage Management, SANs |
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Dell Completes Virtualization Deployment for Heavy-Equipment Dealer Kelly Tractor in 20 Days | 2008-07-01 | Dell |
| An aging, proprietary Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Kelly Tractor worked with Dell to design and deploy preproduction Microsoft Dynamics AX on Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running VMware ESX Server and supported by a Dell/EMC CX3-40c Storage Area Network (SAN). As a result Dell helped complete deployment in 20 days, an estimated 80 percent faster than Kelly Tractor IT staff could have managed alone.
Tags: SANs, Server Consolidation |
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Infortrend Works With Wayi to Start a New Page for Online Games | 2008-06-06 | Infortrend Technology |
| Wayi International is Taiwan's leading developer of online games. In the operation of an online game company, information system is a vital element. To produce a successful game, powerful and reliable servers and storage systems are both indispensable. Therefore, their purchase decision should be carefully made. Their IT staff has dedicated much to comparing different hardware equipments. They expect to find the servers and storage systems with good price/performance ratio, manageability and reliability. Wayi International deployed Infortend's EonStor A12F-G2422 which is a 2U, 12-bay, FC-to-SATA RAID subsystem. It provides 4Gb FC host channels and supports 12 SATA-II drives for large capacity.
Tags: RAID, Storage Management |
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Bonneville Joint School District Protects Student Data With Revinetix Disk2Disk2Disk Solution | 2008-06-06 | Revinetix |
| Bonneville Joint School District No. 93 used a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device to back up files weekly from its more than 50 servers. Archiving was a challenge, as is required a lot of manual intervention and was slow, taking on average an entire weekend to complete. When evaluating options to replace its existing system, price and technical service capability were two key factors for determining the purchase. Through Valcom, a Value Added Reseller (VAR) located in Boise and Salt Lake City, Bonneville was introduced to Revinetix' Disk2Disk2Disk data protection methodology. Bonneville's purchase included Revinetix' Sentio and Volo appliances, fully integrated with its innovative data protection software (RevOS) - all supported by reliable, in-house technical support.
Tags: Data Recovery - Security, NAS |
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Data Domain Case Study: Lancashire County Council | 2008-06-01 | Data Domain |
| Lancashire County Council stores about 100 terabytes of backup data. With consistent growth in its data stores and its backup tape library reaching capacity, it had become apparent that a re-evaluation was needed of its backup infrastructure before investing more money. Following the evaluation and subsequent contract award, the council installed two Data Domain DD580 appliances, each with an expansion shelf giving them a maximum 121 TB of useable logical capacity, at their current compression ratios, in just 30TB of raw disk.
Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries |
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Workforce-Management Solution Provider Kronos Chooses Dell Servers, Dell/EMC Storage, and VMware Virtualization Software for a Projected 135% ROI Over Three Years | 2008-06-01 | Dell |
| Kronos needed to consolidate servers in order to minimize power and cooling requirements, as well as fit more servers in its data center to support an important acquisition. Kronos deployed a combination of Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays, and virtualization software from VMware as a virtual infrastructure footprint to drive the internal requirements for its business units.
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization |
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EonStor Boosts Low-Delay HD Streaming for Digistor Production Facilities | 2008-05-26 | Infortrend Technology |
| Digistor focuses on supplying professionally supported solutions for the creation, management, storage, and delivery of digital media. Its extensive services and solutions also include the realms of enterprise network, government, and education. The company wanted multiple and simultaneous HD streams with reliable data distribution. Digistor deployed Infortrend RAID subsystems exclusively in their SANman storage solutions. SANman is the trusted name in performance RAID solutions in Australia for all applications including broadcast video, security and medical imagery. Whether connected to a single computer or sophisticated shared workgroup SAN environment, SANman RAIDs with Infortrend deliver unbeatable manageability, compatibility, reliability, performance and scalability.
Tags: Storage Management, SANs |
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Dell Case Study: MaximumASP | 2008-03-01 | Dell |
| MaximumASP needed reliable hardware to grow its Web hosting business and support innovative, first-to-market product offerings such as the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Beta. MaximumASP has been running Dell hardware since the day the company powered on its first servers in 2000, and has since deployed a combination of Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays, virtualization software from Microsoft, and a combination of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator and IT Assistant and Altiris software for systems management. The company has also used Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting and Dell Warranty Parts Direct to help get maximum value from its server and storage investments.
Tags: Storage Management, SANs |
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Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning | 2008-01-18 | Dell EqualLogic |
| Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping areas into new communities. Brookfield Homes Southland Division, covering southern California north of San Diego County, employs about people and generates annual revenues between $300 million and $500 million.
Tags: SANs, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization |
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