Business Continuity & Availability Storage for BI

Capturing, storing, and analyzing ever-greater amounts of information are all at the core of SARCOM’s business. Therefore, the company needed to transform its IT infrastructure and establish responsive, manageable, and easy-to-provision data storage. The firm was unable to effectively manage data with the EMC CLARiiON 600 array as their business grew. In addition to drive failures, the array could no longer meet SARCOM’s requirements for capacity, backups, point-in-time copies, or database management.

Searching for a better solution, SARCOM management took a long, hard look at the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). SARCOM managers were especially impressed by the way HP simplified virtualization – the ability to pool and share compute and storage resources for faster response with less overhead costs. Using HP StorageWorks Command View EVA software, for example, the SARCOM staff could allocate storage resources to meet demand in real time.

• Improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing costs and protecting data

• Replace EMC CLARiiON storage array with a virtualized HP-based SAN infrastructure linked to server blades, with point-in-time replication (full data set snapclones) and backup to tape libraries

Business improvements

• Better control and lower costs
• Faster access to business intelligence for improved customer solutions
• Reduced risk of data loss and improved business continuity
• Greater flexibility and agility to respond to change

IT improvements

• 50 percent faster storage allocation
• Better storage resource utilization
• Instantaneous replication of full data sets
• Integrated, unified management of storage and servers
• Greater capacity
• Simpler provisioning of services  

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