SARCOM Simplifies Storage

SARCOM simplifies storageVirtualization makes provisioning and management much easier ? and more cost effective
"HP proposed a much cleaner, less complex way of handling storageallocation with one virtual LUN. The HP StorageWorks Enterprise VirtualArray is a lot simpler and 50 percent faster." ? Todd Crites, Chief Information Officer, SARCOM, Inc.
HP customer casestudy:Virtual SAN Objective: Improve storage performance, flexibility, andinfrastructure built on reliability while reducing costs and protectingHP StorageWorks data Enterprise VirtualArray (EVA), HP Approach:BladeSystem, and HP Replace EMC CLARiiON storage array with aData Protector virtualized HP-based SAN infrastructure linked toSoftware server blades, with point-in-time replication (fulldata set snapclones) and backup to tape librariesIndustry:InformationTechnology and IT improvements:Services .50 percent faster storage allocation .Better storage resource utilization .Instantaneous replication of full data sets.Integrated, unified management of storage and The heart of its businessservers Capturing, storing, and analyzing ever-greater.Greater capacity amounts of information are all at the core of.Simpler provisioning of services SARCOM's business. Therefore, the company neededto transform its IT infrastructure and establishresponsive, manageable, and easy-to-provision dataBusiness benefits: storage. The firm was unable to effectively manage.Better control and lower costs data with the EMC CLARiiON 600 array as their.Faster access to business intelligence for business grew. In addition to drive failures, the arrayimproved customer solutions could no longer meet SARCOM's requirements for.Reduced risk of data loss and improved business capacity, backups, point-in-time copies, or databasecontinuity management.
.Greater flexibility and agility to respond to Most critically, says Todd Crites, SARCOM CIO, "Thechange CLARiiON was never able to fully replicate our dataand make infallible copies. We didn't even look atreplacing it with another EMC system."had to build multiple RAID groups or mirrors and then"Having HP storage, servers, and software present the middle LUNs to the hosts. The HP EVAsaves time in reconfiguring storage. That's importanttogether makes it easy to provision new because we're always creating storage LUNs fortesting or other reasons." services and offer customers a specific Combined with virtualization features is the array'ssolution. As a result, we have become a ability to take point-in-time copies or snapclones of anentire data set for backup ? a process SARCOMmore agile company." couldn't fully achieve until now. Recalls Crites, "Whenwe tried to take point-in-time copies on our other array,? Todd Crites, Chief Information Officer, the images would fade through, and we couldn't beSARCOM, Inc. sure of making a recoverable image." Equallyimportant, with the HP solution SARCOM does nothave to pay "service fees" to make changes or adddrives to its new array. Quick deploymentHP Services installed the new SAN quickly. "The HPengineers came out for about a day, set up the arrays,The advantages of virtualization and then we attached servers to them," says Crites.Searching for a better solution, SARCOM management SARCOM uses a 14 TB EVA for its primary productiontook a long, hard look at the HP StorageWorks environment and a smaller 4 TB EVA for disasterEnterprise Virtual Array (EVA). They visited the HP recovery and backup - in conjunction with HP DataStorage Solution Center in Colorado Springs, Protector Software, which backs up data to two HPColorado several times to listen to briefings and see StorageWorks 4400 Tape Libraries. These HP businessthe arrays in action. continuity, availability, and disaster recovery solutions"Our experience with the Storage Solution Center was are designed to promote resilient operations - andvery positive," says SARCOM's Senior VP of Product help SARCOM recover its critical data in the event ofSolutions Dan Schneider. "You learn about more than an unexpected outage. the HP storage portfolio; you learn how HP For example, Data Protector fosters continuity ofapproaches the whole enterprise-computing internal business operations with automated dataframework." backup and recovery, as well as scalability to supportSARCOM managers were especially impressed by the multiple servers. "HP Data Protector Software isway HP simplified virtualization - the ability to pool comprehensive and... [download for more]