Visual Storage Intelligence™ Case Story Final
- 1. Our customer is one of the nation’s leading food and beverage companies, 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, widely distributed network, They needed a solution to quickly analyze and display their SANs and NAS devices. “Quick, clear analysis helped us to make better decisions and save money.” -- Vice President IT Infrastructure Case Story For more information www.ClearTechnologies.net or call 972.906.7500 TMTM TMTM “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.” www.ClearTechnologies.net Storage Management “Made Easy” The Customer: A Major Food Producer The Environment: • IBM DS4000 • NetApp NAS • Multiple Data Centers The Challenge: • Large and diverse infrastructure • Tier Ambiguity • SANs and NAS utilization • Error prone manual processes The Solution: • Weekly snapshot • Non-intrusive • Non-disruptive • Proactively lower TCO • Informed future growth • Ease of management • Intelligent business decisions The Vice President of IT Infrastructure, stated “One of our challenges with our large and diverse IT Infrastructure was keeping track of our storage environment. Knowing which servers were using which portions of our Tier 1/Tier 2 storage, where our freespace existed, and making sure all of our SAN’s and NAS devices were being used properly was a very complex and manual task which was error prone as well as impossible to keep up with. Not only was this a difficult task for our storage administrators but management did not have the information to make our business decisions.” About Us Since 1993, our customers have relied on us to meet their hardware needs. Today, our customers look to us to increase their organizational effectiveness by providing continuity, infrastructure, security, and virtualization solutions. The Challenge The Solution Visual Storage Intelligence TM