One-Terabyte Disk Drives Up To The Challenge

Customer: i-cubed

Industry: Enterprise Geospatial Information Solutions

Business Issue: i-cubed specializes in creating high-quality digital maps. Growing demand for its services has resulted in the company’s equally explosive need for reliable, online data storage.

Solution: i-cubed specializes in creating high-quality digital maps. Growing demand for its services has resulted in the company’s equally explosive need for reliable, online data storage.

To meet their needs, i-cubed’s server room is equipped exclusively with Nexsan SATABeast storage systems featuring Hitachi hard drives. That currently includes 4-4U racks of systems using Hitachi’s 500GB drives and 3-2 post racks of Hitachi drives.

School Data Center Goes to Head of the Class in Disaster Avoidance and Recovery

Customer: Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC)

Industry: Educational Data Center

Business Issue: Upgrade legacy tape storage and manual offsite storage to meet current and future demands

Solution: Upgrade legacy tape storage and manual offsite storage to meet current and future demands

For more than 30 years, NWRDC had provided state-of-the-art data protection for its customers in its Tallahassee, Florida facility. Over the years the data center had seen many renovations to allow for newer technology and more storage area, and the team had made investments in a faster, more nimble infrastructure. A few years ago, as NWRDC’s tape backup solution began showing signs that it was near the end of its useful life, the team began the search for an upgraded system to meet current and future demands, all of which had changed dramatically from the time of NWRDC’s inception. Disaster recovery had become a key issue and the current use of tape and manual offsite storage no longer met its needs.

The Beast That Roars for Wold-Class Scientific Research

Customer: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Industry: Scientific Research

Business Issue: Expanding research programs and increasing data are forcing an exponential growth in in data storage requirements. The Centre's data yield has grown from 20GB a couple of years ago to the current daily level of 200-300GB.

Solution: Expanding research programs and increasing data are forcing an exponential growth in in data storage requirements. The Centre's data yield has grown from 20GB a couple of years ago to the current daily level of 200-300GB.

SATABeast forms part of the insurance policy that underpins that work for the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, with further investment in Nexsan technology likely in the not so distant future, as data storage needs continue to expand.

Racing Certainty

Customer: Honda Racing F1 Team

Industry: Automotive Racing

Business Issue: Generating and handing massive volumes of data in pursuit of on-track success, the Honda Team urgently needed a new storage strategy to match its escalating ambitions.

Solution: Generating and handing massive volumes of data in pursuit of on-track success, the Honda Team urgently needed a new storage strategy to match its escalating ambitions.

With the Honda Racing F1 Team rapidly outgrowing its previous storage architecture, SATABeast - as part of a totally revamped data storage infrastructure - has helped to give the team a new lease on life. Now the team has a tiered storage solution that will meet all of its data requirements well into the future.

Using Better Storage Technologies to Elevate the Art of Diagnostic Radiology

Customer: Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology (MDR)

Industry: Medical Diagnostic Imaging

Business Issue: The retrieval time for archived medical images could take anywhere from 15 – 30 minutes per DVD on their legacy DVD jukebox. These delays negatively impacted the ability of MDR’s radiologists to access and view patient studies and complete the diagnosis of their patients.

Solution: The retrieval time for archived medical images could take anywhere from 15 – 30 minutes per DVD on their legacy DVD jukebox. These delays negatively impacted the ability of MDR’s radiologists to access and view patient studies and complete the diagnosis of their patients.

The improvement in performance coupled with the availability of higher storage capacities has elevated the effectiveness of MDR’s diagnostic radiology practice. By keeping all production and the majority of archived images online, retrieval times for all images in a patient study are now often measured in seconds or minutes, thereby reducing the amount of time that doctors need to spend waiting for patient study images and allowing them to be more productive in their jobs.

Directions for the 21st Century: Establishing a Digital Memorial to Holocaust Victims

Customer: Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum

Industry: Museum

Business Issue: Yad Vashem needed an affordable and reliable storage system as they went through the process of digitizing 50,000 hours of audio and video, 100 million pages of documentation and 300,000 photos connected to the Holocaust.

Solution: Yad Vashem needed an affordable and reliable storage system as they went through the process of digitizing 50,000 hours of audio and video, 100 million pages of documentation and 300,000 photos connected to the Holocaust.

One SATABeast currently serves the on-demand video and audio needs of 50 workstations at the organization’s visual center, while another SATABeast acts as an intermediate, online backup repository for copies of disk-based snapshots and data taken from the primary production systems. Leiber’s team also uses the second SATABeast as a virtual tape library, used in conjunction with existing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup procedures.