14-year DataCore Solutions for Storage Requirements

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1 Customer References 2014 Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 1

2 Quorn Foods Food Industry, United Kingdom Marlow Foods, owner of the Quorn brand, offers quality food products, 600 employees % storage reliability & performance for VMware vsphere, SAP, ERP & Tier-1 Apps Integration of SAS & SSD SANsymphony-V on 2x Dell T710 servers; synchronous mirrored SAN pool DataCore Auto-Tiering with 3 tiers including SAS & SSD Performance improved 500%; data mining response improved from 20 min to 20 sec 0% Storage-related downtime running DataCore for >2 years Storage-related spending reduced by > 25% DataCore s SANsymphony-V now reliably underpins the entire estate. From a transformation perspective we have new levels of availability and enhanced decision making for both IT and the users. - Fred Holmes, Head of IT at Quorn Foods Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 2

3 Volkswagen Financial Services, UK Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) provides finance and insurance services to customers across the entire Volkswagen Group in the United Kingdom, 850 employees. Reduce storage-related downtime. Has been running DataCore without any storage-related planned or unplanned downtime for 4+ years. Deferred 2 storage hardware refresh cycles using DataCore software. Running DataCore without storage related downtime for > 4 years. Decreased the amount of time spent on routine storage tasks by 90%. Cut planned downtime on data migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes by > 95%. DataCore software has allowed us to benefit from traditional expensive SAN technologies at a massively reduced cost. It's evolution as a product since acquisition has ensured that it is still meets our needs at a cost that is competitive. - Mike Duxbury, Server Administrator at Vokswagen UK Group Ltd. Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 3

4 Capgemini Computer Services, UK With more than 130,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. 100% availability. DataCore SANsymphony-V solution provided an ROI within 6 months or less and helped turn stranded storage capacity into >100% more free space. Performance improved more than 5x. Reduced storage-related downtime by 100%. Time spent on routine storage tasks has decreased by 50%. This is game changer which is ahead of the trend and key element to help organisation to truly have a Software Defined Data Center. - Irvin Nio, IT Architect at Capgemini Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 4

5 Femern A/S Engineering / Travel & Transport, Denmark Femern A/S is in charge of the construction of the 18 km long Fehmarnbelt tunnel connecting Denkmark and Germany, 90 employees. Reliable support of VMware s VSphere and a scalable storage environment. Solution must span several sites including the headquarter in Copenhagen and the construction sites. SANsymphony-V on HP servers with 320 GB Fusion-io PCIe iodrive2 cards. 50 TB of mirrored storage based on HP direct-attached SAS&SATA drives. Scalability to cover the 10x capacity growth expected in Increased performance with the use of Fusion-io and DataCore s auto-tiering. Enhanced storage management, control intelligence and reduction of downtime. Today, and in the future, with DataCore managing caching and auto-tiered flash in the background, the applications appear robust, instantaneous and seamless. We have achieved this without the cost prohibitive price tag of pure flash. - Tim Olsson, IT Manager at Femern A/S Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 5

6 City of Heidelberg Government, Germany A large local municipal administration serving a community of more than 145,000 residents, and a requirement of servicing 1600 clients with 24 centralized servers. Improve application data availability and security. Reduce time taken for backup and increase utilization of storage. Extend capacity cost efficiently and investment protected/future proofed. SANsymphony-V based architecture on the 4th generation of storage servers with storage hardware form 8 different vendors from the year 2000 until today. Vendor & platform independence. Unified central platform with mirroring, snapshot, storage classes, CDP. Flexible, easy capacity expansion and data migration. Boot from the SAN. SANsymphony-V has proved to be the high performance solution we had hoped for and met all the data availability requirements demanded by our tests a flexible and secure platform on which to base our current and future storage needs. - IT Manager Manfred Leutz Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 6

7 Direct Line Assurance, Germany Direct Line Versicherung AG is one of the largest direct insurance companies in Germany and offers car and motorcycle insurance as well as traffic law protection insurance and personal liability. High availability and automatic failover/failback to the secondary backup site located 40 kilometers away from the primary production site. Support of the existing storage hardware and easy integration of new capacity and technologies. SANsymphony-V on 2x HP servers. High speed synchronous mirror to the backup site 40 kilometers away. Performance improvements up to 75%. No downtime and high availability in a scalable environment. DataCore SANsymphony-V enabled Direct Line to achieve high availability and disaster recovery in a manner that was highly cost-effective, without compromising on either the performance or the data protection requirements we had specified. - Heiko Teichmann, managing director at IT service provider teserco GmbH Technology Consulting Service Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 7

8 Buhlmann Engineering, Germany BUHLMANN GRUPPE is a leading provider of steel tubes, pipes and fittings. The company spans 6 national and 26 international locations and the group employs over 700 people within its headquarters in Bremen. Highest level of availability and performance at the best price and the flexibility to grow and integrate new technologies such as flash and SSD. Vendor and hardware independence. Software-defined Storage infrastructure on SANsymphony-V on 2x HP Proliant servers with Fusion-io iodrive Duo card with 640 GB capacity. Performance improvement with DataCore Auto-Tiering. Performance improvements up to 100%. Cost savings up to 50% compared to a traditional SAN solution. Our IT landscape is constantly evolving, therefore we knew we needed a flexible, vendor-independent solution to meet our storage needs and that is what we found with DataCore. Flexibility, hardware independence and great value for money made it an easy decision to go for the DataCore solution. - Marco Niebur, director of IT at BUHLMANN GRUPPE Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 8

9 Bitburger Food & Beverage, Germany The Bitburger Group is one of Germany s largest breweries. The 2,100 employees of the Group produce over 200 million gallons of beer. Bitburger is the market leader in Germany in the draught beer sector, and number two in total. Greater flexibility and performance for SAP R/3 and other business critical applications. DataCore storage virtualization runs fully redundant on top of Hitachi Thunder Arrays. DataCore synchronuous mirroring, auto-provisioning and Snapshots. Fail-safe, optimized utilization, greater performance. Our new solution has no single point of failure In the event of an error, no failures of the business-critical applications are expected due to the fact that we mirrored the hard disk systems in combination with doing regular backups. We can also now enjoy much more flexible administration of our storage capacity and get significantly better utilization of our resources. UWE SILLER, the manager of the IT Department at the Bitburger Group. - Marco Niebur, director of IT at BUHLMANN GRUPPE Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 9

10 Legacy Pharma GmbH Healthcare, Switzerland Legacy Pharmaceuticals Switzerland manufactures, licenses and markets pharmaceutical products in over 70 countries worldwide, with 145 employees. Implementation of a new ERP system according to the latest GAMP 5 guidelines, a standard framework for the validation of computerized systems in the pharmaceutical industry. High availability and integration of SSD to enhance performance. Software-defined Storage infrastructure on SANsymphony-V on 2x HP Proliant servers. Cost savings up to 40% in the initial investment. Offsite replication to maintain stringent security standards. By opting for DataCore we consistently followed our virtualization strategy, which we had planned. SANsymphony-V is more flexible and scalable than a hardware SAN, and can represent our high availability and performance perfectly. - Sascha Fritz, IT Expert at Legagy Pharma Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 10

11 Universite Education, France UAG, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (West Indies and Guiana) is located on three French overseas territories - the archipelago of Guadeloupe, the island of Martinique and French Guiana. The institution comprises nearly 12,000 students and 1,000 teaching and non-teaching employees. Extend the existing virtualization infrastructure to ramp up a highly available, robust, scalable and automated system. 2 DataCore SANsymphony-V nodes of 150 TB each, running in synchronous replication on 2 HP servers, each with a RAM cache of 64 GB and internal Fusion-IO SSD cards with 5 terabytes each, sixty SAS and SATA disks for a total capacity of 263 terabytes. Highly available & scalable solution. Superior performance and visibility: 50% increase in speed, Flash optimization. Customized control for a better use of resources and optimized storage tiering. 100% open software solution, allowing the integration of the latest technological innovations at the application, hardware and network level. Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 11

12 MAN Truck & Bus, Italy MAN Truck & Bus Italy is the importer of Italian MAN Truck & Bus AG, part of the MAN Group and one of the leading international manufacturers of industrial vehicles and supplier of innovative transport solutions; employees. Consolidation of the existing, heterogeneuous environment. Business continuity and cost reduction. SANsymphony-V on two servers. Synchronous mirroring and transparent failover on each side. Existing investments can be integrated in the new environment. Performance improvement and greater scalability. DataCore s SANsymphony-V is a very practical solution which I can recommend to other companies. As DataCore is not tied to a particular manufacturers in terms of hardware we can consider further extensions of our environment freely and choose the best deals. - Alessandro Zamboni IT Manager at MAN Truck & Bus Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 12

13 MEF Misistero dell Economia e delle Finanze, Italy The MEF is the executive body responsible for economic, financial and budget policy, planning of public investment, coordinating public expenditure and verifying its trends, revenue policies and tax system. Preserve the existing and very diverse set of storage investments. Centralize management, increase productivity and provision highly available storage. SANsymphony-V on four standard servers which offer redundancy and data protection together with centralized management of over 200 TB of storage. Synchronous mirroring across buildings, accelerated workloads for business applications through DataCore s fast in-memory high-speed caching. DataCore not only reduces our storage related costs by consolidating management, it enables us to buy less expensive hardware and it also enables us to protect our existing investments. Moreover, the software-defined layer in our infrastructure gives us flexibility to optimize whatever we use and puts us back in control to shop storage for the best value to allow us to cost-effectively deal with growth. - MEF Staff Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 13

14 Parlamento Vasco Government, Spain Parlamento Vasco is the legislative body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain and the elected assembly to which the Basque Government is responsible. High Availability to eliminate storage related downtime. DataCore SANsymphony-V without storage-related planned or unplanned downtime for 5+ years. Positive ROI from investment in DataCore within the first year. Performance has improved more than 3x & 50% more free space. Time spent on routine storage tasks has decreased by 75%. Since implementing DataCore storage virtualization software we have zero storage-related downtime. - Juan Jose Arruza, IT Director Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 14

15 Grup Casinos Peralada Gaming, Spain The Grup Peralada runs a group of businesses in several sectors: leisure, culture, viticulture and industry. The Group CASINO Peralada runs CASINOS de BARCELONA and TARRAGONA. 24/7 High Availability of process transactions for VMware, Oracle, MySQL, ERP. DataCore nodes for synchronous mirroring across multiple sites and one in an external datacender for replication in real time. Central administration in total virtualized infrastructure (storage/server/desktop). Significant increase in data availability. Cost savings in hardware upgrades, maintenance, almost 100 % disk utilization. DataCore Customer service has been spectacularly good and fast Without DataCore, we would not have been able to make the necessary investments in a virtualized infrastructure for the Group. - Josep Lluis Rodriguez del Castillo, IT Director Peralada Group Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 15

16 MANPOWER Consumer Services, Portugal Manpower Group delivers innovative workforce solutions that enhance competitiveness, increase efficiency and spur productivity. 3,500 offices in 80 countries. Real High Availability in the main data center. Effective Disaster Recovery. DataCore SANsymphony-V. Effectively reduced storage-related spending by more than 50%. Performance has improved more than: 3x. Reduced storage-related downtime: 100%. Cut downtime on data migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes by more than 75%. Reclaimed more than 50% more free space. DataCore brought real HA in the main datacenter and the ability of a disaster recovery plan with RPO/RTO four times smaller than it was with a physical SAN. - David Nogueira IT Manager Copyright 2014 DataCore Software Corp. All Rights Reserved. 16

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