Case Studies

Open-E & Optima Packaging - Successful Migration for Extended Data Storage Possibilities Read more »

Starline’s High-Availability Open-E JovianDSS Based Solution for BRANDGUARDIAN Read more »

In order to fulfill increasing market demands, after analyzing various products on the market, Vidsys reached out to Nfina, our long-standing partner, to implement Hybrid Cloud service - an Open-E JovianDSS-based solution. Read more »

A non-governmental organization, Post Bellum from Czechia, turned to Abacus Electric, a data storage provider, for a tailor-made solution that would fulfill the organization's highest needs. Abacus proposed a solution with Open-E JovianDSS software. Read more »

Can a data storage solution perform without a single moment of downtime for years? Our answer is yes. Here’s our case that proves it, created in partnership with Toshiba, AIC, and Microchip. Read more »

How to create an outstanding data storage solution for an Internet service provider? Here is the case: Limitis, an Italian company, in order to provide its partners and customers with a good and reliable basis, improved its IT infrastructure with an Open-E JovianDSS data storage solution. Read more »

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.

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 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.

For its growing amount of data, Dähne publishing had been using an eight year old virtualized environment based on Open-E DSS V6. It was time to look for a new solution. The project of developing a new storage concept was handed over to Open-E Platinum Partner and storage specialist Rausch Netzwerktechnik who presented a new concept consisting of a centralized virtual environment with 10Gbit RJ45 – this time based on servers of their own brand Sasquatch with the ZFS-based storage software JovianDSS by Open-E.

The data geospatial data collected by Aviation Accounting Center (AAC) is enormous which is why Open-E Partner Entry installed a solution with Open-E JovianDSS.

Video Surveillance data is exploding with high value needs for the content, and access for evidence and proof is more critical than ever. For this reason, Private Clouds that involve on-site data content for additional security are trending now faster than ever. For the Texas Police Departments time and storage demands are vital needs for their surveillance security camera data. They required quality hardware with a software storage operating system to provide SMB/CIFs, and import the Users and Groups from their Microsoft ADS server. They neither had time for extensive training on the products nor to read an extensive manual. Basically they needed to drop in place and go. For the Texas Police Departments, video surveillance products must have high quality and flexibility to fulfill the ever changing needs for security on all levels and types of video equipment.

esacom deploys Sasquatch SDS | V7 Metro HA with Open-E DSS V7 and Sasquatch SDS | ZFS Variety with Open-E JovianDSS.

Arts & Others Communication uses Sasquatch SDS | ZFS Variety Mirrored HA Cluster with Open-E JovianDSS software.

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.

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.

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.

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.