1. Case Story
Visual Storage Intelligence
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Storage Management “Made Easy”
“Quick, clear analysis helped us to make better
decisions and save money.” The Customer:
A Major Food Producer
-- Vice President IT Infrastructure
The Environment:
• IBM DS4000
• NetApp NAS
Our customer is one of the nation’s leading food and beverage companies, • Multiple Data Centers
producing a full line of dairy and soy products. They have a large IT infrastructure
spread across 5 main data centers in the United States. Due to their complex, The Challenge:
widely distributed network, They needed a solution to quickly analyze and display • Large and diverse
their SANs and NAS devices. infrastructure
• Tier Ambiguity
• SANs and NAS utilization
• Error prone manual
processes
The Challenge
The Vice President of IT Infrastructure, stated “One of our challenges with our The Solution:
large and diverse IT Infrastructure was keeping track of our storage environment. • Weekly snapshot
Knowing which servers were using which portions of our Tier 1/Tier 2 storage, where • Non-intrusive
our freespace existed, and making sure all of our SAN’s and NAS devices were • Non-disruptive
being used properly was a very complex and manual task which was error prone • Proactively lower TCO
as well as impossible to keep up with. Not only was this a difficult task for our • Informed future growth
storage administrators but management did not have the information to make • Ease of management
our business decisions.” • Intelligent business
decisions
The Solution
“We chose Visual Storage IntelligenceTM because it leveraged our existing
environment without requiring any additional tools or products to install”, said
Director of Architecture. Our patent-pending solution enabled them to“…get
weekly reports and charts showing exactly what the status of our DS4000 and
NetApp NAS storage arrays are, which servers are using which storage and where
potential issues may be. This is the perfect tool for our environment, it has required
no implementation time or effort and we get the reports we need whenever we
need them.”
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