Case Studies

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.

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.

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.