TWICE THE POWER for Construction Company with StoneFly TwinHCI Systems

TWICE THE POWER

for Construction Company with StoneFly TwinHCI Systems

THE CHALLENGES

With three hosts that provided file service, a windows server for the materials department, and a backup system, their infrastructure had grown and become fault-prone The organization had already experienced five incidents with multiple hardware failures that caused data and VM losses In addition to hardware failure, the company had limited staff to cater to every component (ie network, storage and compute), in turn adding to the problem

THE SOLUTION

THE RESULTS

The solution helped the client to deploy an infrastructure that ensured business continuity and high availability with minimum IT staff intervention and no single point-of-failure The highly scalable and simplified setup could easily be handled by a single member of the staff Additionally, the TwinHCI enabled the client to utilize their compute and storage resources to its full capacity with significantly reduced costs

Moreover, the centralized management platform exterminated many management complexities and provided a stress-free working environment for the staff

Kyle finished ”With this solution, we don’t have to worry about hardware failure anymore and the built-in security and optimization features really simplify our job Thank you, StoneFly, for going over and beyond our call

ON-GOING VALUE

Coupled with the high availability and affordability of the TwinHCI, the construction company also got more bang for their buck in the form of the following benefits:

SUPERIOR DATA CONTROL & MANAGEMENT WITH FEATURE-PACKED INFRASTRUCTURE

In order to put data owners in complete control of their data, the TwinHCI come preconfigured with a storage OS (SCVM) that delivers advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities The SCVM dashboard feature real-time graphical performance reporting of metrics such as CPU usage storage network consumption and more

Additionally SCVM delivers an array of data protection and storage optimization features coupled with advanced data services to compliment the high availability HCI solution and enhance user experience

Standard SCVM data protection features include: air-gap volumes Write-Once Read-Many repositories, Backup Vault, advanced encryption, immutable snapshots, threat scan, and more Storage optimization features include deduplication for NAS iSCSI & S3 volumes, thin provisioning, FlashCache™ SSD caching, and more

Advanced data services include sync & async replication NAS SAN & S3 storage provisioning, and more To get the complete list of SCVM features, contact StoneFly sales

With the advanced reporting, built-in data protection, storage optimization and advanced data services the construction company enjoys powerful hyperconverged capabilities and seamlessly manages their storage infrastructure

CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT

With the built-in storage OS, the construction company manages their complete infrastructure from a centralized management GUI that runs on standard browsers The interface provides access to administrative and management features for the entire infrastructure

HIGHLY SCALABLE & FUTURE-PROOF INFRASTRUCTURE

Similar to other StoneFly storage solutions, the TwinHCI systems boast the ability to scale out without limits

In fact, the TwinHCI are dually scalable That means that users can choose to either scale out or scale up In order to scale out, users can add more appliance nodes; consequently increasing the performance and storage capacity in multiples

To scale up users can add hundreds of storage drives using storage expansion units (EBODs) and deploy petabyte-level high availability HCI systems

In other words, the construction company built a future-proof infrastructure that can scale effortlessly as their data grows

StoneFly, Inc , headquartered in California, was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP SAN solutions

StoneFly is a leading manufacturer of highperformance Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN) –iSCSI systems, Hyperconverged systems, and RAID systems StoneFly’s range of enterprise products also includes cloud storage solutions, cloud storage gateway solutions, and data migration services for enterprise workloads