Case Studies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.