East Resources initially had just three, 1TB Dell PowerVault 745N NAS devices, later adding Dell servers with six hard drives apiece. Those ran out of space in one year.
"We had to buy more and more servers, which led to more management overhead," said Jason McNutt, IT manager, East Resources. Eventually, the company was operating fifteen different devices, and increasing hardware devices by more than 13 percent per year. Maintaining so many systems was a time-consuming process. Furthermore, running out of storage capacity was not an option.
East Resources said it is running VMware in production and can now take better advantage of its capabilities. As far as redundancy goes, if a server fails, the IT team can bring up another one in mere seconds. Before the NEC deployment, if a server needed to be rebooted, it took down other parts of the system, affecting the productivity of at least 40 people.
NEC's D-Series SAN Storage solution is part of NEC's Dynamic IT Infrastructure. Along with NEC's broad range of services, the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure provides a platform for virtualization, consolidation and business continuity.
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