Open-E Case Studies

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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.

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A Success Story from the Financial Sector

Date: Jul 31, 2014

Investment Technology Partners (ITP) delivers a complete, hosted IT solution for small to medium Financial Services Firms. ITP’s goal was to design and integrate enterprise class redundant data centers. Open-E provided the performance, resiliency and tier 1 capability at a reasonable price which was needed.

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D&D Distribution develops custom storage solutions powered by Intel® technology and Open-E

Date: Jul 31, 2014

D&D Distribution specializes in building storage solutions from scratch. It wanted to create a next-generation modular storage solution with new levels of flexibility, availability, and scalability. Open-E storage software offered an easy-to-use storage management interface for achieving a custom storage solutions powered by Intel®. technology.

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SystemDeveloper.NL solves hosting services issues with Open-E DSS V6

Date: Dec 17, 2013

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Increasing IT Efficiency with Virtualization

Date: Dec 6, 2013

As an educational institution, the Informatics Department of Universidade do Minho (DIUM) wanted to provide staff and students with a hi-tech environment by using innovative IT solutions. To combine a superior performance and limited budget they chose a virtual infrastructure with storage based on Open-E DSS V6.

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Bulldog Data Building powerful Micro Clouds on the Cheap

Date: Sep 10, 2012

Bulldog Data Solutions set out to create their own internal cloud and wanted to deliver fast performance, strong enterprise features, reasonable and controlled costs and no single points of failure. To build their own storage tier and pack it with performance Bulldog decided on Open-E DSS V6.

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Protection against fall not only for mountain climbers

Date: Jun 13, 2012

The company Christoph & Markus Krah GmbH in Garmisch-Partenkirchen offers training courses and equipment for all operations that require a rope. The IT's aim was to create a solution providing a mirroring of the central servers and storage units to another building, to secure their data from potential desasters. They choose that Open-E met the requirements for scalability, flexibility and availability.