Case Studies

Code Monkey Studios Ltd is a Software Solutions Company specializing in Location services chooses Open-E JovianDSS for their data storage solution. Code Monkey writes and runs solutions for companies around the globe, and hosts it all on their own DataCenter. In total, the company has around 100 000 devices reporting in every 30 seconds throughout the day with the location data. Read more »

IT Service Provider With Own Data Center Renews Its Storage Infrastructure For A Long-Term Strategy With Open-E JovianDSS. IT-Beratung HALBE, which operates its own data center, wanted to realign its strategy by replacing the conventional storage and virtualization environment based on DSS V7 and VMware ESXi with a new infrastructure. Taking into account a general cost minimization, the goal was to create a future-proof starting position so that competitive services in the IT and hosting area can be still offered to the customers. Read more »

Usborne Publishing Ltd is the UK’s leading specialist children’s book publisher, as well as an independent, family business which creates engaging, innovative, accessible books for readers of all ages. They have approached Broadberry, a long-lasting Open-E Partner, with a request to replace their internal VMware cluster and SAN with an enterprise-grade solution that will be cost-effective, faster than the existing one, and at the same time reliable and highly performant. Read more »

e-shelter required a high performance storage solution to be used for iSCSI targets of various sizes. To meet their demands, their lab partner Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH selected a Supermicro server, supplied enterprise-class hard drives (HDDs) for the main data storage and selected Open-E as the operating system vendor. The solution turned out to deliver impressive performance and stability.

Mitsui Chemicals Europe GmbH is a chemical subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals Inc, Tokyo who was seeking a High Availability iSCSI storage system with at least 50TB of usable storage capacity for its existing VMware farm. Soon they were offered the Open-E JovianDSS Active-Active Cluster with two rack servers as storage nodes and two JBOD chassis for the operation of two independent storage pools.

The NWÜ GmbH & Co. KG is a company that offers an efficient, cross-industry safe solution for connecting alarm and IoT technology and which operates a VDS 3138-certified emergency call and service center (NSL). Due to the complex portfolio of services and thus gathering enormous amounts of data, NWÜ Security required a failure-resistant, highly available and secure data storage solution. The main challenge to be overcome by the security provider was the responsiveness of the control center, which mainly provides mission-critical security and service. Being satisfied with Open-E software products they have decided to transfer to Open-E DSS V7.

IMP Bautest AG is a private institute for materials science, construction advisory services and analytics. An area of business that is of growing importance to IMP Bautest is road condition assessments on behalf of municipalities and property developers. The company has specifically developed the mobile data acquisition system I.R.I.S., which is used in minibuses packed with high-resolution cameras, a 360-degree laser and additional laser measuring devices. With the old storage solution, downloading the data could take even several days. Open-E JovianDSS proved to be the optimal solution because it is highly flexible both in terms of hardware compatibility and storage connection to virtual environments.