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BAS Group Case Study

BAS Group is the largest electronics retailer and e-tailer of the Netherlands and is a platform between vendor and consumer. Founded in 1996, Dutch retailer/etailer BAS Group experienced a huge expansion in July last year when it acquired Dexcom, owner of Dixons and Dynabyte, increasing its store numbers nearly tenfold from 25 to 230. In the process, the company’s employee numbers grew to 1400 and it turned into a €500m revenue operation.

BAS Group owns three retail chains (Dynabyte, Dixons and MyCom) and relies on what it terms the “clever integration of online and offline shopping” to give customers in the Netherlands the ability to order products online or in-store and to be no more than 10 minutes walk from expert help and physical products.

(High Availability, Performance, Scalability)

CADENAS GmbH Case Study

CADENAS GmbH is a leading software manufacturer in the area of strategic parts management and parts reduction (PARTsolutions) as well as electronic CAD product catalogs (eCATALOGsolutions). With its customized software solutions the company acts as a link between component manufacturers, their products, and buyers. With its 300 employees in 12 locations worldwide, the name CADENAS (Spanish for "chains") has stood for success, creativity, support, and process optimization for over 18 years. In this success story, you can find out how CADENAS leveraged their ZStor-configured solution to maximize the power of NexentaStor.

(Data Protection, Hardware Agnostic, High Availability)

Delano Regional Medical Center Case Study

Known throughout California and beyond, Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is a full-service community and regional teaching hospital. DRMC serves 10 rural central California towns and is committed to providing an exceptional patient experience. With a total of 156 beds, DRMC is a privately owned, not-for-profit hospital with services including an Intensive Care Unit, a Sub-Acute Care Unit, a Medical Surgical Unit, a dedicated Surgical Pavilion, and an Obstetrics/Gynecology Unit.

(Disaster Recovery, High Availability, VDI, VMware for View)

Ensequence Case Study

Ensequence, the interactive TV company, enables programmers, service providers, and advertisers to create and deploy a high volume of uniquely branded interactive television experiences across cable, satellite, telco, and connected devices. Using Ensequence’s technology, viewers can vote for reality show contestants, check real-time sports stats, or download recipes from cooking shows all from the convenience of a remote control.

(Backup, Disaster Recovery)

Escape Case Study

With offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Vienna, escape GmbH offers design, development, and hosting services to customers in the online, telecom, and media industries. Customers include BMW, Nintendo, Vodafone, and Leica. Escape has one of Germany’s main mobile content providers among its customers and has an SQL database with more than one billion records. It was running approximately 100 virtual machines and 10 physical servers at its data centers. Other infrastructure included an SQL database, which currently manages more than one billion records for one of Germany’s main mobile content providers.

(Cloud Service Provider, Data Protection)

Finance Case Study: NexentaStor Unified Storage at Top 10 Global Financial Firms

More so than many other industries, Financial organizations are dealing with the explosion of financial information, data centers, corporate mailboxes, and the ordinary day-today dealing of thousands of employees. The issue becomes how do you store this data, how do you make it secure and accessible, and how do you plan for both the short- and long-term needs of a company with exponential data growth.

(Backup, Cloud, Multi-User Access, Virtualization)

GridSouth Case Study

GridSouth Networks, LLC, a privately-owned Managed Service Provider, delivers high-capacity, high-performance grid networking, including 100 and 1000 Mbps Internet service, VMware vSphere Hosting, and managed Web hosting. GridSouth’s product and service offerings are designed and built around the philosophy of over-engineering, which leads to unsurpassed network reliability, resiliency, and, ultimately, extremely satisfied customers. Over-engineering includes fully redundant data centers, active standby equipment, and technical expertise to deliver cost-effective service plans with uncompromising results.

(Managed Service Provider, Replication, Unified Storage Solution)

Impulse Case Study

Impulse Advanced Communications is a service provider that designs voice and data networks that prepare companies for growth. For over 15 years Impulse has helped businesses gain a technological advantage by designing, implementing, and managing advanced communications networks that enable a geographically unbound workforce. Their services include FailSafe Internet Access, hosted VoIP, managed hosting, and network design.

(High Availability, Replication, Virtualization)

iNet Case Study

Integral Networks (iNet) is an established provider of turn-key cloud-based technology solutions, managed services, infrastructure management, and value-added technical services to the channel and organizations of all sizes and from all market sectors.

(Backup, Cloud Service Provider, Disaster Recovery, Security)

Intermountain Electronics Case Study

Intermountain Electronics, Inc.® is headquartered in Price, Utah and designs, engineers, manufactures, and services custom electrical distribution and control equipment for mining, power generation, refineries, utility providers, and all levels of government. Celebrating their 25th year of operation, Intermountain Electronics (IE) is one of the top 75 fastest growing companies in Utah and has won several awards including Best of State in their category in 2009 and 2010 as well as Utah’s 2009 Manufacturer of the Year award.

(Disaster Recovery, Low Carbon, Multi-user Access, Scalability)

KT Case Study

Established in 1981, and a privately owned company since 2002, KT (formerly Korea Telecom) is an integrated wired/wireless telecommunication service provider, with the largest portion of South Korea’s local telephone (95% of fixed line telephone subscribers) and high-speed Internet business. Its business includes more than five million IPTV household subscribers, a public cloud for 1.5 million private users, and nearly 1,800 enterprise subscribers, along with a new data center with Softbank employing 700 racks.

With the explosive expansion of data from smart phones, the Internet, and multimedia, KT wanted a storage solution for its public cloud services business that would support growth now and into the future. And, to compete against Amazon’s AWS, the solution needed to be low cost, flexible, and have the ability to scale as needed.

(Hardware Agnostic, High Availability, Scalability, Accelerated Deployment)

Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg Case Study

Founded in 1994, regional water supplier Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg GmbH (TWM) is responsible for the purchase, production, processing, and transport of drinking water from deep aquifers to public utilities and associations, municipal utilities, and regional companies. TWM delivers water to six counties, serving more than 800,000 residents, including 338 towns and communities, businesses, and farms spread across 5,700 square kilometers. TWM ensures high availability and highly resilient water acquisition and delivery operations.

(Backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Replication)

VESK Case Study

In 2009, after nine months of development, the founders of IT support specialist Appiam set up VESK, one of the fi rst companies to implement virtual desktops in the UK. Today, VESK is fully owned by Appiam Limited, a London-based IT support provider specialist renowned in the industry for excellent levels of IT and customer support. VESK now is the fastest growing supplier of virtual desktops to SMEs in the UK, with customer sectors ranging from local government with more than 500 users to small businesses, with as little as three end users.

(High Availability, VDI)

viaForensics Case Study

viaForensics® is an innovative digital forensics, security and e-discovery firm providing services to corporations, law firms and law enforcement/government agencies. Their areas of focus include computer and mobile forensics, threat and fraud protection, and forensics training. They are the leading experts on iPhone forensics and Android forensics and have developed a suite of unique services to serve the security and e-discovery needs of organizations.

(Backup, Data Retention, Disaster Recovery, Large File Size, Security)

virtion GmbH Case Study

virtion GmbH’s mission is to provide small and medium sized companies managed hosting services covering infrastructure services, application management services, and support services, along with server virtualization, storage virtualization, and data backup / recovery to its customers.

The aim of this German hosting company is to give customers the choice of running business applications on their own infrastructure or as a managed cloud service in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. virtion also provides customers with the ability to outsource all of their internal and external services.

(Accelerated Deployment, Security, Service Provider, Data Protection, High Availability)

Zend Case Study

Zend PHP is the leading developer of PHP and provides support services to customers around the world. Its IT systems are used to develop and test PHP solutions. From pilot to production, Zend helps increase the maturity of the PHP application life cycle through a combination of popular open source projects, enterprise-grade products, and comprehensive service and support.

(Support Services Provider, Unified Storage Solution, VMware Lab Manager)