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Manufacturing Firm Assembles Multiple Solutions Through Single StoreVault S500 | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| National Cycle, Inc. is the world leader in motorcycle windshield manufacturing, and is the OEM supplier to BMW, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, Polaris, Suzuki, Triumph, and Yamaha. The difficulties faced by the company were diverse and varied. Management pains from older DAS deployments, simplifying user credential management, reducing licensing, reducing data duplication, improving backup frequency and allowing for future growth were all criteria on his list. National Cycle had been thoroughly researching and was excited to hear that NetApp had introduced a new line of products for small businesses. They concluded that a networked storage device and a Virtual Tape Library device with backup software that tied them all together would really make a difference.
Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries |
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University of California at Berkeley Chooses a Tiered Storage Approach | 0000-00-00 | RADirect |
| The Haas School of Business at the University of California's Berkeley campus was founded more than 100 years ago, making it the oldest US business school at a public university. The Haas School of Business wanted to find a cost-effective, feature-rich data storage solution to manage increasing storage requirements (additional servers & RAID arrays) on campus setting. The school created a tiered storage scenario based on a fully redundant IP SAN using SANRAD's V-Switch 3000 iSCSI switches, in conjunction with the school's existing FC SAN. Then, there was addition of Nexsan's 21 TB SATABeast SATA RAID array to help consolidate data at a low cost per TB.
Tags: RAID, Removable Storage |
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IC Source Pinpoints Best Deal With RamSan Solid State Disk From Texas Memory Systems | 0000-00-00 | Texas Memory Systems |
| IC Source, Inc. has been serving the time-critical and complex needs of electronic components brokers since 1996 with its advanced inventory database application. The company wanted to improve competitiveness of trading forum by eliminating backlog of updates to the inventory database. IC Source initially set up the RamSan-400 in a demonstration environment at their office. Within half an hour they had it up and running and did not require any technical assistance at all. They found it extremely easy to use. When IC Source deployed the RamSan in their data center they immediately saw a 400% improvement in performance. This resulted into the World's Fastest Storage" which eliminates backlog, delivers 400% performance improvement to database and helps ensure IC Source's competitive edge.
Tags: Warehouse Inventory Management |
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iQstor's iQ1250 IP SAN Provides the Storage Networking Foundation for School Sport Fundraisers | 0000-00-00 | iQstor Networks |
| When schools want to raise funds for their sports activities they turn to Varsity Gold due to their proven success at high school fund raisers, sports teams, bands, cheer groups, PTAs and community groups. Similarly, when Varsity Gold wanted to better protect their on-line data and improve their workflow, they turned to iQstor. In order to centralize the storage for Varsity Gold's financial, document imaging, email and web site management, the company reviewed a number of storage systems from different vendors and selected the iQ1250 from iQstor.
Tags: Storage Management, SANs |
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Hard Drive Recovery Case Study: Power Failure Surge Brown Out | 0000-00-00 | dtidata.com |
| Hard drive recovery from electrical issues requires special tools and training. Hard drives these days require more advanced techniques to solve electronic hard drive failures. When a surged disk comes in for hard drive recovery often times the electronics are fused together making the pcb board unusable. It is almost impossible to replace pcb boards due to the proprietary microcode and encryption that is prevalent on newer drives. That means that the hard drive recovery process is going to require advanced electronic work including soldering and un-soldering effected chips. The best way to avoid this type of failure is to purchase a solid surge suppressor. | |||
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Private College Goes to the Head of the Class With Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup and Recovery | 0000-00-00 | Overland Storage |
| The company wanted data growth of 30 percent annually overburdened tape-based backup and recovery, which took too long and experienced severe reliability problems. As a challenge the company wanted an inordinate amount of administration strained performance of daily maintenance and the ability to balance budget restrictions with the increasing need to add both disk- and tape-based data protection solutions. As a solution the company deployed REO 9000, NEO 2000.
Tags: Removable Storage, Tape Drives - Libraries |
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Austrian TV Station Moves to Tapeless Environment With Quantum SDLT 600A | 0000-00-00 | Quantum |
| Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, ATV is Austria's largest and only national commercial broadcaster and the first privately owned domestic rival to the Austrian state-owned television stations, ORF1 and ORF2. One of ATV's key challenges was to safely and reliably archive its workgroup content in its tapeless environment. What it needed was a backup system that could handle MXF files, which have become essential to its workflow. As a solution the SDLT 600A uses Super DLTtape II, which enables ATV to store key MXF metadata in a tape-based file system directory at the beginning of each tape. ATV now has video tape-like access to sub-clips by timecode.
Tags: Removable Storage, Tape Drives - Libraries |
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Medical Practice Operates With Improved HIPAA Compliance Thanks to Versatile REO Disk-Based Backup Appliance | 0000-00-00 | Overland Storage |
| Microneurosurgical Consultants, P.C. is a Portland, Ore.-based medical practice that treats brain, neck, back and spinal conditions. The company realized that tape-based backup solution was time consuming and complex. Leading-edge practice management system created sharp rise in data and drove need for improved backup and recovery. Growing concerns over HIPAA compliance and need to access vital patient records led to evaluation of more scalable storage foundation. As a solution the company installed the software REO 4000 which resulted in easy, intuitive, quick installation and now backs up twice as much data in half the time while restores take less than a minute.
Tags: Removable Storage, HIPAA |
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Using NetApp Fibre Channel SAN and NAS Storage to Support a Perforce Software Configuration Management Environment | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| With multiple development teams working on separate project components and with teams often geographically dispersed, Software Configuration Management (SCM) solutions can help increase productivity and improve quality. NetApp provides robust unified storage solutions proven to work with the industry's leading SCM platforms. This case study describes a deployment of the Perforce SCM system running on clustered Network Appliance storage configured to provide simultaneous Fibre Channel SAN and Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The customer, NVIDIA Corporation, uses Perforce SCM not only to manage its software development process and chip designs, but also to provide change control for critical documents company-wide.
Tags: NAS, SANs |
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RamSan Success Stories: LuLu, Inc. | 0000-00-00 | Texas Memory Systems |
| Lulu provides independent publishers with free access to on-demand publishing tools for books, e-books, music, images, calendars and more. The company wanted to enable higher customer traffic. As a solution the company deployed RamSan-320 from Texas Memory Systems which delivers over 250,000 random I/Os per second and 1500MB/s random sustained external throughput.
Tags: High Performance Computing |
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