Disaster Recovery

Customer: Engineering Company

Industry: Manufacturing

Service: Infrastructure Services > Disaster Recovery

Hardware: x86 based Dell 1750 server

The Situation

Our client is a rapidly growing company in manufacturing segment has multi-terabyte heterogeneous storage environment. This site is critical for client organization as its running core business applications. The client has made significant investments in top of the line EMC and NETAPP storage

The Challenge

The client has a remote site setup but no disaster recovery plan for storage. The similar line of storage hardware was not the option at disaster recovery site due to budget constraints. The client was looking for a partner who could offer possible low cost solutions leveraging current hardware while achieving the objective.

The Solution

i³ understood customer’s storage environment and proposed a storage virtualization solution that would help the organization achieve high availability using existing hardware. i³ used IP backbone to replicate the storage across the disaster recovery site. This cost-effective SAN solution allowed the organization to leverage existing hardware investments for a faster return on investment and dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The solution also provided other benefits such as thin provisioning and single console to manage heterogeneous storage environment.

The Result

This cost-effective SAN solution allowed the organization to leverage existing hardware investments for a faster return on investment and dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The solution also provided other benefits such as thin provisioning and single console to manage heterogeneous storage environment. The solution met both objectives of high availability and disaster recovery.