Open-E Case Studies

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Automobile Association runs data center with Open-E DSS V7 Cluster

Date: Nov 25, 2015

With approx. 520,000 members, KRAFTFAHRER-SCHUTZ e.V. is the third largest Automobile Association in Germany. The company offers transportation and legal insurance services. KRAFTFAHRER-SCHUTZ operates its own data center based on VMware over two fire protection zones. When the hardware reached the end of its life cycle, the company decided for an active-active iSCSI cluster solution with Open-E DSS V7 provided by Open-E Partner EUROstor from Germany.

Test equipment specialist integrates Software Defined Storage solution with Open-E

Date: Oct 8, 2015

COMPRION is a world leader in manufacturing test solutions for terminals and smart cards. The company’s test systems are well-known for their precise measurement and testing capabilities. With a Software Defined Storage solution based on hardware from Boston Server & Storage Solutions with Open-E JovianDSS, COMPRION was able to renew their storage environment in regards to data security and usability.

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Tool manufacturer implements iSCSI cluster with Open-E

Date: Aug 18, 2015

The storage environment of POLY-TOOLS bennewart GmbH, an international manufacturer of technically complex blow molds, needed a thorough renewal. With the help of save IT first and Open-E Gold Partner EUROstor they implemented an active-active iSCSI cluster configuration based on Open-E DSS V7 to reach highest reliability.

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Virtualization and High Availability in drinking water management with Open-E DSS V7

Date: May 26, 2015

Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH, a joint communal drinking water supplier in Germany, replaced their 6 year old storage network with a scalable high- availability cluster environment based on Open-E DSS V7.

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ISCSI and storage replication with Open-E DSS V7

Date: May 20, 2015

Logistics provider DOM Kurier GmbH from Germany renewed their storage infrastructure with Open-E, Fujitsu and Citrix XenServer to significantly increase performance and to achieve cost-efficient redundancy for backups.

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Manufacturer of pedicure products implements HA storage with Open-E and VMware

Date: Apr 10, 2015

Eduard Gerlach GmbH, a market leader of pedicure products in Germany, found with Open-E DSS V7 a storage solution, which is compatible with their SAP environment and provides the best performance, high availability and easy scalability at the same time. With an active-active iSCSI Cluster over several fire protection zones it was possible to integrate SAP in their own data center.

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High availability hypervisor platform for stock photo agency

Date: Jan 21, 2015

The world's largest online photo agency Alamy required a resilient storage solution with load-balancing, redundancy against hardware failure, and the ability to install hardware and OS updates without downtime. The company chose Open-E DSS V7 with Active-Active iSCSI Failover to provide high availability iSCSI storage, and set up an environment which also leveraged Hyper-V 2012 clustering to provide a HA hypervisor platform.

Software-defined storage for business automation software developer

Date: Oct 10, 2014

Due to its rapid growth, ReadSoft, a global provider of applications for automating business processes, required a storage solution with higher performance, exceptionally scalable, easy to set up, and highly secure. Additionally any existing single points of failure were to be avoided. Satisfied with the existing Open-E storage, ReadSoft decided to upgrade to software-defined Open-E JovianDSS which is based on ZFS.

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A success story from mechanical engineering industry

Date: Oct 10, 2014

OPTIMA packaging group GmbH is a leader in manufacturing filling and packaging machines. While using VMware ESX, the company choose to build the centralized storage system based on Open-E DSS V7 because of its scalability, worldwide availability of the product and implementation costs.

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Storage high availability for internet service provider

Date: Sep 18, 2014

VDB Automatisering is an ICT company and was looking for a suitable solution to guarantee redundancy for their internet services. With Open-E DSS V7 they were able to save money and achieve a great performance and stability with a resilient setup thanks to reusing legacy hardware.