At one of Top 3 banks in US Complexity, costs, and risk of restoring files from tape. Document retention and deletion policies were not being followed due to cumbersome, labor-intensive processes in current system. Situation created contra-policy file deletions that could have presented legal risk to bank.
Author: Administrator
Deferred Equipment Upgrade Paid for Itself in 2 Weeks!
Mid-size University used HSM to avoid equipment upgrade
Saved Client $500,000 in Hardware Costs
National Non-Profit Organization used use HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) to reduce the SAN purchase to 1 Terabyte.
Saved $50,000 While Reducing Labor
Minimized System Downtime Due to Backup using HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) products and services
Bank Department is Up and Running 24 Minutes after 9/11 Terrorist Attack!
OFFSite Archive (OSA) solution and services. Creative system administrator configured system to be geographically distributed and independent. Planned and wrote code for optimized, rapid restoration of services in event of a disaster (one-to-many server replication, viewed from central source).Over $23 Million might have been Saved if Entire East Coast Bank had Implemented Offsite Archive Solution! |
University and Students Benefit from Improved Service Efficiency
University in Southwest US Saves $400,000! using HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) products and services. Motivated, capable client contributed to the success.
Client Reduces Downtime, Backup Time, and Labor
Governmental Justice Department Innovative Solution Saves $100,000! using HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) solutions and services, WinNT workstations, digitized audio files.
Barney Metzner, IT Systems Manager, Health Sciences, University of New Mexico
Remarks: “[With Managed Server HSM], we have been able to amass a considerable amount of data without investing in a storage area network (SAN).”
“Your customer support has been fast and professional, with quick answers and recommendations to any of my questions.”
“The Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center spends about one-eighth as much for storage as similar institutions that have implemented a SAN with capacity comparable to the Center’s file storage servers. We have been able to offer our users nearly unlimited storage for their business, research, and education-related files. We can do it without spending a lot of time and money adding capacity to our primary servers, employing more staff to train users, or restricting storage use.”
“With the dramatic drop in the price of SAN solutions, we are looking at them as a way to increase performance, flexibility, and reliability, but Managed Server HSM will continue to be a part of our storage strategy.”
Isaac Harris, Senior Network Engineer, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Remarks: “I am very pleased with the fact that this application, once set up, requires little or no manual intervention and is transparent to the end user. From an administrative standpoint, it requires virtually no effort.”
Stefan Russu, IT Manager, Labstat International Inc.
Remarks: “The HSM solution was easy to install and configure and has been a complete solution to our need for automated file management on our Novell Network. It has more than paid for itself, and we have not had to acquire more hard disks.”
“Your customer support has been fast and professional, with quick answers and recommendations to any of my questions.”
