My First SAN

Meijer Inc. – the Michigan-based retail-chain giant – used to operate with more than 150 file servers spread out over its multiple company locations. Supporting and upgrading these distributed systems was extremely costly and ineffective, so it decided to consolidate on an HP NAS/SAN fusion solution, including two HP NAS devices for optimised file-and-print serving.

Visa EU – a leading provider of payment solutions for financial institutions – wanted to ensure its customers could use their Visa cards anywhere and at anytime. It needed to upgrade the corporate IT infrastructure to cater for rapid data growth. It chose an HP NAS/SAN fusion to create a centrally managed storage pool, and to centralise the management of multiple distributed servers.

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s.Oliver – a leading German fashion producer – suffered a devastating fire in one of its administration buildings in 1999. The company president ordered IT staff to boost reliability, implement disaster-recovery capabilities and establish a disaster-tolerant IT infrastructure. They chose two HP StorageWorks EVA5000 systems for enhanced failover, which also provide 8 TB of storage to meet the company’s projected growth.

“The investment into a SAN has been absolutely worthwhile. The systems are faster and more flexible. New features can be added quickly without any problems. And last but not least, the infrastructure as good as pays for itself. We have been operational for half a year now, and based on the first results, we expect to have recouped our investment within two years.”

“HP StorageWorks systems offer the best investment protection, greatest flexibility and lowest cost of ownership of any storage product on the market.”

“HP delivered a complete, turnkey solution that was not available from other companies. As a result, we are number one in our market and positioned to stay there.”

"As an IS department we need to be as agile as possible to accommodate the growing needs of Duane Morris to support service to our clients. HP is helping us accomplish that."

"As a small-to-medium business and independent software vendor, we need to rely on one partner to guide us through and move us forward. We favor HP as a partner as much for the great response and support from HP Services as for its HP ProLiant cluster solution."

"We have yet to find a solution that can beat the combination of HP ProLiant servers, HP storage, SteelEye LifeKeeper software, and Linux on a price-performance, pricepredictability, and price-reliability scale. The solution delivers quiet enjoyment."