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- Leibniz Computing Center Achieves 10x Faster Supercomputer Data Services With netapp Solution
- The Leibniz Computing Center provides IT services for Munich universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The challenge was to implement a storage solution to deliver project file services in a 4,096-CPU SGI Altix 4700 supercomputing environment. Ensure highest data consistency and availability to support more than...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Computing, NetApp, Leibniz Computing Center, Storage, Hardware
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- First American Bank Replaces EMC to Standardize on netapp for Simplified Storage Management Enterprisewide
- First American Bank, an Illinois-chartered, full-service commercial and retail bank, has more than 40 branch locations in the greater Chicago area. The bank wanted to dramatically increase storage capacity and performance and simplify enterprisewide storage management. The bank also wanted to perform rapid disaster recovery and reduce storage management costs....
- Tags: Bank, EMC Corp., NetApp, American Bank, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
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- First American Bank Replaces EMC Clariion With netapp iSCSI Solution
- First American is an Illinois-chartered, full-service bank with over 43 Chicago-area locations and more than $2 billion in assets. The bank wanted to improve data replication capabilities and increase system performance. The bank also wanted to reduce storage maintenance costs. First American deployed the NetApp solution. The bank's IT management...
- Tags: Bank, iSCSI, EMC Clariion, EMC Corp., NetApp, American Bank, Storage, Financial Services, Hardware
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- EDS Launches Mobile Information Protection With netapp Inside Distributed Backup Solution
- EDS is the most experienced outsourcing services company in the world. Following the success of an "On-demand" storage offering, EDS wanted to expand into a new market segment: managed backup and recovery services for PCs and related mobile devices such as laptops And Personal Digital Assistants PDAs. Network Appliance was...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Mobile, Backup, Electronic Data Systems Corp., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- Dassault Systemes Standardizes on netapp Solutions to Synchronize Worldwide Development Sites
- As a world leader in Product Lifecycle Management PLM solutions, the Dassault Systemes group brings value to more than 70,000 customers in 80 countries. Dassault Systemes needed a central repository for the massive volumes of development data generated over the course of each day. Dassault Systemes first deployed Network Appliance...
- Tags: Dassault Systemes, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance Simplifies Backup and Recovery With netapp and Veritas
- The Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance helps people make the transition from public assistance to independence through employment, housing, healthcare, transportation, education, and childcare programs. The county wanted to manage annual data growth of 30%+ and complete backups within allocated time windows. The county was also aiming to improve...
- Tags: Recovery, VERITAS Software Corp., NetApp, Storage, Backups, Hardware
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- CONSOL Energy Reduces SAP Storage and Infrastructure Costs With netapp FC SAN Solution
- CONSOL Energy produces high-bituminous coal and coal mine methane gas. The company wanted to reduce data storage costs and manage data growth. The company also wanted to enable efficient data backup and recovery and reduce system administration overhead. As a solution the company installed a NetApp IP SAN system to...
- Tags: SAN, SAP AG, NetApp, CONSOL Energy, Storage, Hardware
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- Exchange and Archive Consolidation at SAP Hosting
- SAP Hosting AG & Co. KG is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP AG and operates all of SAP's internal business-critical systems. The company aimed at replacement of a decentralized storage infrastructure of local storage and optical media for e-mail, R/3 documents, and document archival with a centralized, highly available...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Consolidation, SAP AG, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- Siemens Business Services Gains High Availability and Flexibility With netapp Solutions
- Siemens Business Services SBS offers a full spectrum of modern IT services. The company wanted to consolidate storage to support heterogeneous application and UNIX and Windows environments. The challenge was to ensure flexibility, boost availability, and reduce administrative costs. As a solution SBS Austria implemented NetApp unified storage for file,...
- Tags: Siemens AG, High Availability, NetApp, Siemens Business Services, Storage, Hardware
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- Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Consolidates Critical Infrastructure on netapp SAN Storage
- Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. SSMC is Siemens's biggest manufacturing facility outside Germany and the largest Siemens operating company in China. The telecom market in China in the past years has grown substantially, driven by China's tremendous economic growth and rapid modernization. As a result, SSMC has had to...
- Tags: China, Siemens AG, Mobile Communication, NetApp, Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications, Storage, Hardware
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- Six Flags Centralizes Backups for Regional Theme Parks, Reducing Cost and Improving Data Protection
- Six Flags, Inc. is the world's largest regional theme park company, operating a total of 29 parks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The company wanted to minimize the need for local IT expertise at individual parks. The challenge was to update aging infrastructure to better support park operations...
- Tags: Data Protection, Backup, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- SAP Migration Gives SMS Demag AG Next-Generation Storage Management
- SMS Demag AG is a leading international supplier of plants and equipment for the metallurgy industry. The company aimed at migration of the SAP landscape, including installation of a future-safe storage infrastructure. The company's goals were to lower operating costs, reduce downtime, and greater flexibility for handling new business requirements....
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., SAP AG, Migration, NetApp, SMS Demag AG, Storage, Hardware
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- Sonol Israel Ltd. Oil Company Fuels SAP/VMware Environment With High-Performance netapp Storage
- Sonol markets and distributes refined petroleum products, lubricants, and related products. The company wanted to deploy a high-performance, highly scalable SAN to support the Sonol SAP production and VMware-based development environments while controlling costs and ensuring rapid backup/recoverability of all business data. As a solution the company standardized on high-availability...
- Tags: Environment, SAN, High-performance, SAP AG, VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
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- First American Trust Banks on Network Appliance for Compliance and Disaster Recovery
- First American Trust Federal Savings Bank is part of The First American Corporation, a Forbes 500 and Fortune 500 company and the nation's leading provider of diversified business information and related products. As First American's computing system and data storage needs grew, it became apparent that trying to meet these...
- Tags: Bank, Network Appliance Inc., Compliance, Disaster Recovery, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- FirstHealth of the Carolinas Cures Information Growing Pains With Standardization on netapp
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas is a private, nongovernmental, not-for-profit health care network serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas. The challenge was to support 100% annual data growth and 650 applications while controlling fast-rising management costs and improving information services to health-care stakeholders. Address regulations for privacy and security, and implement...
- Tags: Health Care, NetApp, Standardization, Storage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearing Institute Trusts Network Appliance High-Availability SAN for Industry-Critical Certification Services
- The world-class payment systems of the Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearing Institute KFTC manage over 20 million transactions each day. The company wanted to ensure 24x7 online access and deliver performance for peak loads. The company also wanted to synchronize in-house/remote DR. KFTC chose the NetApp solution for its superior...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., SAN, Industry, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- Israel Aircraft Industries Maximizes Efficiency With Move to Network Appliance
- Israel Aircraft Industries is a globally recognized developer of aerospace technologies for military and civilian applications. Israel's largest exporter, IAI serves customers in 90 countries. An existing storage system hit its capacity limit, limited growth, was increasingly expensive to operate and maintain, and rendered IAI vendor-dependent and too reliant on...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Israel Aircraft Industries, Storage, Hardware
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- InTechnology Leverages Network Appliance Data Storage to Provide Worry-Free Backup for European Industry Leaders
- InTechnology provides businesses with innovative IT infrastructure solutions, products, and managed services with a focus on data storage, data management, and data protection. The company wanted to consolidate existing storage, ensure high performance 50+% annual growth and scalability for the future. InTechnology is protecting 2PB (2000TB) of customer data on...
- Tags: Data Storage, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, InTechnology, Storage, Hardware
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- Infineon Singapore Standardizes on Network Appliance for High-Growth, Semiconductor R&D Environment
- For Infineon Singapore, staying on top in the semiconductor industry means continually fine-tuning the company's IT infrastructure to keep pace with rapid growth. Storage capacity requirements, for example, have doubled in each of the last three years. Faced with ever-greater chip complexity, a constantly increasing number of projects, and an...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Semiconductor, NetApp, Infineon Technologies AG, Infineon Singapore, Storage, Hardware
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- Network Appliance Case Study: IJsselland Hospital
- IJsselland Hospital in Capelle aan den IJssel is a modern, patient-orientated, commercial and innovative hospital. The hospital aimed at stable storage for an organisation-wide digital archive and uncomplicated management of data storage. The NetApp FAS3020 Series MetroCluster solution does not have an unnecessarily complicated structure and is therefore easy to...
- Tags: Hospital, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Storage, Healthcare, Hardware
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