Customers Briefs

Chip Design:

Performance of the Storwize Compression Solution in the Chip Design Industry

The Storwize appliance achieved an average compression ratio of 66%, reducing the company’s stored data to under 2TB, which was less than a quarter of its available storage The company was able to postpone the acquisition of additional disks by at least 2.5 years...

Oil & Gas:

Oil & Gas company evaluates the real-time compression capabilities of the Storwize STN-5000 appliance

Beyond its direct impact on the IT budget, the huge capacity saving achieved with Storwize enables the company to transfer additional seismic data online from second tier storage without migration projects, and to postpone the purchase of new storage hardware...

Finance:

The Real World Economic Benefits of Primary Optimized Storage

We will now turn our attention to briefly describe two real world deployments of Storwize's Primary Optimized Storage solution and the economic benefits that they have observed. Taneja Group had the opportunity to speak at length to end users at each organization and interview them about their usage model and the economic benefits that they have observed over the course of their deployment...

Communications:

Polycom, Leading Communications Company Instantly Reduces Storage Footprint by 75%

With Disaster Recovery practices (DR) becoming a standard component of corporate IT infrastructure policy, Polycom set about to deploy a solution that will support meeting demands for data footprint rapid growth and an efficient DR plan without having to further extend IT budgets. Storwize solutions have been integrated into Polycom’s longer-term strategy of making Its storage infrastructure more efficient and as green as possible...

Entertainment:

Leading Production Studio Reduces their Cost of Consolidated Storage Infrastructure

Snowball VFX needed a solution to enable studio staff (software developers, graphic artists, editors) to continue meeting growing capacity challenges while reducing the cost of consolidated storage infrastructure, improving composing process performance as well as reducing backup/ restore time. Deploying Storwize reduced Snowball’s cost per terabyte by >80% while accelerating its compositing performance by >93%.

Insurance:

The Power of Two: Helphire Realizes over 65% Capacity Savings

As a highly service oriented company, committed to providing its customers with assistance in cases of emergency, HelpHire set about to increase the efficiencies of its IT infrastructure. Following a successful deployment of a large-scale server, virtualization infrastructure, aimed at reducing capital and operational expenditures, HelpHire turned to Storwize to gain a 65% capacity savings...

Manufacturing:

Global Automotive Manufacturer Reduces Data Footprint with Real-time Compression

Storwize solutions deliver compelling benefits for data-intensive applications, such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. engineering, design, and production teams use Storwize with the leading PLM solutions to substantially increase storage efficiencies of their existing infrastructure, including reducing bandwidth requirements.

International Food and Beverage Manufacturer Achieves 82% Compression on Oracle Database Applications

Companies worldwide rely on Oracle databases for key enterprise applications. As the amount of data in Oracle databases continues to grow, data footprint costs escalate. In addition, backups and restores grow longer and longer, replicating databases for test/development activities increases, and the time it takes to replicate to disaster recovery (DR) sites take longer. Storwize attacks the problems of data growth with cutting-edge real-time lossless storage compression solutions that dramatically reduce the amount of space required for storing data.