Case Studies

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.

EUROstor, a manufacturer of storage systems who’s main part of the product portfolio are server based systems, acting as flexible storage servers, tailor-made for the customers’ needs, has created a long-term business relationship with Max Planck Institute, supplying systems to this customer since 2007. Willing to provide their customer with the best solution they have decided for an Open-E product, not only because of the performance-price ratio, but also because the product has met all the strict requirements.

Memon Bionic Instruments GmbH conducts research in damaging influence on the environment, producing and distributing exclusively its own high-quality products. Their transfer to a new CRM system was accompanied by increased demands on the performance of the hardware. The customer was looking for a failure-resistant, highly available and high-performance. The company has already been using the XFS-based Open-E DSS V7 cluster in and several tests with competing products, the decision was to start using Open-E JovianDSS.

The Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Mosbach required a solution to mainain their educational site which involves data services for approximately 230 employees and 3600 students. They required a centralized, High Availability storage system that provides iSCSI capacity for VMware servers. Open-E DSS V7 installed enabled synchronous data replication to perform an automatic failover in case one of the nodes becomes unavailable. The

Office Partner is a provider of equipment for the office sector, from PCs and servers, printers and monitors to connectivity products.They have already been successfully using the proven Open-E DSS V7 but they started having especially high demands regarding IO and latency. Due to their previous positive experiences with Open-E software EUROstor offered them the Open-E JovianDSS ZFS-based solution as a Shared Storage Metro Cluster.

Virtual Computing is a Cloud Computing services provider for small and medium sized businesses. As the company is one of the pioneers in the field of workplace hosting and cloud computing who has been developing rapidly since its establishment, they required the best-in-class data storage solutions for their own business.

Simplicity Tech is an IT and Cloud technology company that provides concierge tech services to help businesses grow and prosper. They've been working with Open-E products since 2007 and due to their positive experiences in customer projects they decided to implement the ZFS-based Open-E storage into their very own IT environment.

As an owner-managed company, baierl + demmelhuber is doing business all over Europe and is a leading manufacturer of high-quality interior design. The company was looking for a fail-safe and high-performing Cluster environment with Hyper-V, and decided for a solution by Open-E Platinum Partner EUROstor with Open-E JovianDSS.

As a manufacturer of high-quality diagnostic reagents and analytical systems „made in Germany“, HUMAN sells its products into the farthest corners of the world and 160 countries in total. Because of this vast network around the globe, the location in Wiesbaden, Germany required a capacity extension and update of its storage environment.

With over 1 billion orders per year in Europe, Kramer Equestrian was looking for a new storage environment for the company. They required an absolutely reliable and flexible solution which could also be set up on Citrix XenServer and grow flexibly together with the increasing demands. Rausch Netzwerktechnik created a brand-new concept for the infrastructure. This concept included a flexible and highly available Metro Cluster with Rausch’s own brand Sasquatch SDS | ZFS Variety Metro HA, based on Open-E JovianDSS storage software and Citrix XenServer.