AnAmericanmultinationalfinances companyproviding servicessuchas banking,mortgage, investing,creditcard, andpersonal,small business,and commercialfinancial services;with300+ employeesand thousandsof customers.
Thecompany’scoregoalfortheirITinfrastructurewasto ensure24/7availabilityoftheirserviceswithminimumtono downtime Thiswasbecomingincreasinglydifficultduetothe growthofcustomerdata,theneedtoscale,therequirement forcompliance,andthelimitationsoftheirlegacyservers
Managingimportantcustomerdataacrossmultiplelegacy serverswasbecomingmoreandmoredifficultforthemas thevolumeofdataincreased
Asafinancialservicesprovider,thecompanywas responsibleforcollecting,storing,analyzing,andmanaging confidentialcustomerinformation Asaresult,datasecurity wasanotherimportantfactortheyhadtoconsider.
Withtheirexistinglegacystoragesystemsreachingtheir endoflife,thecompanyneededasolutionthat guaranteedhighavailabilityofcustomerdata,enabledthe banktoachievebusinesscontinuity,andmadesurethat theconfidentialinformationwassafefromthreatssuchas ransomwareattacks
Mark,thecompany’sCTO,said:“Ourcustomersexpectour servicestobereadilyavailableandtheywanttheirdatato besecurefromthreatslikeransomwareandhackers That’sthecoreobjectiveofourdigitaltransformation.We wantedasolutionthatcoulddothatforuswhileallowing ustofocusourprimaryeffortsandresourcesinto maintainingthequalityofourfinancialservices”
TheTwinHCIsystemisadual-nodeclustered hyperconvergedsolutionwithautomatedfailoverand failback.Thebuilt-insoftware-definedclusteringcommits datasimultaneouslytobothHCIappliancenodesensuring thatoperationscontinueevenifoneservergoesofflinewithminimizeddowntime
Furthermore,thepreinstalledstoragevirtualizationengine allowsthecompanytoreducemanagementoverheadand automateroutinetasks–inturnreducingthenumberofIT personnelrequiredtomanagetheITinfrastructure. “WenoticedthatclusteringinStoneFlyTwinHCIisfaster thantheothersolutionswewerelooking-at,atthetime” saidMark,“dataiscommittedtobothappliancesupon creationasopposedtobeingwrittenonceandthen replicatedorsyncedoverandthat’samajorplusforus becausewe’reminimizingRPOsthatway”
Thefinancecompanywaslooking forasolutionthatmadesuretheir criticalbusinessandcustomer datawasalwaysavailableandin theeventofadisastercanbe restoredwithnear-zerodowntime
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UsingtheTwinHCIsystem,thefinancecompanywasable toreplacetheirlegacysystemwithahighlyavailable, easy-to-manageandscale,andhighlysecurestorage infrastructure
Inadditiontoallowingthecompanytoovercomeknown challenges,thebuilt-infeaturesoftheTwinHCIdelivered additionalvalueenablingthemtoimproveoverall operations,andenhancecustomerexperience
Marklaterstated,“WiththeTwinHCI,wenowhavea distributedstorageinfrastructurewhichmakessureour criticalbusinessandcustomerdataisalwaysavailable, andsecure Afterhavingtestedthesystemseveraltimes, we ’reconfidentthatwecanrestoreoperationswithin minutes–ifdisasterstrikes”
AboutStoneFly,Inc. StoneFlyInc.,headquarteredin California,wasfoundedtodeliver uponthevisionofsimpleand affordablestorageoptimization anddisasterrecoveryprotection throughIPSANsolutions StoneFly isaleadingmanufacturerofhighperformancenetwork-attached storage(NAS),storagearea networks(SAN)–iSCSIsystems, hyperconvergedsystems,and RAIDsystems StoneFly’srangeof enterpriseproductsalsoincludes cloudstoragesolutions,cloud storagegatewaysolutions,and datamigrationservicesfor enterpriseworkloads.
AutomatedFailoverandFailback
Withthepreinstalledstoragevirtualization engine,thecompanycansetpoliciesto automatefailoverandfailbackintheeventof adisaster.Thiscapabilityallowsthemto reduceRecoveryTimeObjectives(RTOs), ensurebusinesscontinuitywhileleveraging automationtominimizethepossibilityof humanerror.
RansomwareProtection
Inadditiontohighavailability,thecompanyis alsoabletousethebuilt-indataprotection featuressuchasair-gappedvolumes, immutableWORMstorage,S3object lockdown,andfilelockdowntomakesure theircriticalbusinessandcustomerdatais safefromransomwareattacks
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VirtuallyUnlimitedScalability
EachTwinHCI4Urackmountcanstoreupto 1.5PBs*ofdata.Thisrawstoragecapacity canbeincreasedbyaddingmorenodes (scaleout)orstorageexpansionunits (scaleup)
ScaleOut:Thecompanycanchoosetoadd asmanyTwinHCInodesastheyneed.By addingmorenodes,theperformanceand storagecapacityincreasesinmultiples.For example,twonodesprovide2xperformance andstoragecapacity,threenodesincreaseit to3x,andsoon
ScaleUp:Withstorageexpansionunits,each TwinHCInodecansupportupto256drives*. However,storageexpansionunits(EBODs) onlyincreasethestoragecapacity–notthe performance
Withtheabilitytoscaleupandscaleout,the financecompanycanbuildafuture-proof infrastructurecapableofgrowing,without forkliftupgrades,astheircustomerdata grows
Thecompany’sITadministratorscanmonitor, control,andmanageallTwinHCInodes, connectedcloudstoragerepositories,and theintegrateddataservicesusinga centralizedwebbrowser-based managementinterface
Featuressuchasautomatedstoragetiering andreal-timegraphicalperformance reportingandnotificationalsoaddtothe simplicityofmanagementinturnreducing thededicatedresourcesneededtomanage andmaintainthestorageinfrastructure.
*dependingontheappliancemodelseriesandRAIDconfiguration
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