Case Study: Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company |
Challenges
- Cited that the top reasons for purchasing their Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform were to:
- Reduce costs
- Consolidate servers
- Improve data access performance
- Support business growth expectations
Environment
- Main use is primary storage for files and objects.
- Deployed in conjunction with the following applications:
- SMB/CIFS file access for Citrix clients
- Uses the following protocols:
- NFS
- CIFS
Benefits
- Purchased their Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform for the following reasons:
- Performance and scalability
- Integration with Hitachi SAN Storage Arrays
- Saved $500K compared to traditional storage alternatives.
- Saved $500K of capital expenditures (CAPEX) by scaling capacity and I/O throughput independently.
- Reduced Operating Expenditures (OPEX) costs by 30%
- Increased application performance by between 10% and 20%.
Testimonials
“Our HNAS platform provides a way to grow our NAS solution with our user base, without having to select a new platform every time business growth rates change. The clustered hardware ensures that we have peace of mind from a redundancy point of view, should failures occur.”
| Source: | TechValidate Survey of a Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company | TVID: 3BD-E3C-39B |
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Source Info: TechValidate Survey of a Large Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company




