Projects & Agreements
Tegile Helps
Bolton College
Enhance its Data
Storage
Tegile Systems has enabled
Bolton College to enhance the
performance of its data storage
environment and consolidate its
volumes, freeing up half its existing
capacity and future proofing it for
the next five years.
Thanks to the data
deduplication and inline
compression technologies in
Tegile’s flash driven hybrid arrays,
this customer has realised a 57
per cent reduction in its storage
requirements, from 43TB down
to 19TB. This saving includes an
impressive drop from 4TB to below
1TB of primary storage needed
to support the college’s virtual
desktop infrastructure.
Prior to the deployment of
the new system, the college
systems were running on eight Dell
EqualLogic storage arrays. Until the
implementation of Tegile’s T3630
array, the customer’s growing data
storage requirements were met
by periodically adding arrays to
the existing environment. This
approach was inefficient as the
data was spread across multiple
SANs, making its management
unnecessarily time consuming
and leading to higher power
consumption as well as greater
floor space requirements.
By the time the legacy storage
at Bolton College had reached its
end of life, it held approximately
43TB of unstructured raw data.
Senior infrastructure engineer
Irfan Patail and his team were
keen to move to a solution that
would simplify administration,
consolidate data, and scale over the
next five years.
For further information visit:
www.tegile.com
46 | April 2017
Six Degrees Group Delivers Hybrid
Cloud Through Interxion’s Cloud
Connect Platform
Interxion has announced that UK based Six Degrees Group has selected its Cloud
Connect platform to build and manage private connections to multiple public
cloud providers.
The platform enables Six Degrees to deliver the benefits of a hybrid cloud strategy
to its customers, without the performance and security concerns associated with
using the public Internet to do so. Organisations in the UK can now easily leverage Six
Degrees’ expertise and network coverage to extend its IT to the public cloud.
Head of product data at Six Degrees Richard Norman stated, ‘Interxion’s Cloud
Connect platform is a key enabler for our Cloudhop service that provides secure
and private network connectivity to hyperscale public cloud services. We provide
managed hosting services on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, including
Office 365, and Cloudhop allows us to provide end-to-end solutions spanning
network, infrastructure, platform and application management.’
Cloud Connect from Interxion provides secure and high performance
interconnections to multiple clouds from one physical connection. It meets growing
demand from organisations for high performance and secure hybrid cloud architecture.
For further information visit: www.interxion.com
Crawford Media Services builds media
digitisation and preservation services on
Quantum Lattus object storage
Quantum has announced that Atlanta
based Crawford Media Services is using
Lattus object storage to build a content
repository that supports mass migration
of its clients’ legacy content to digital
formats and provides ongoing media
storage and management.
Designed to hold an initial 1.2
petabytes of archived assets, as well as
content ingested during new projects, the
system gives Crawford Media a sophisticated storage infrastructure that cost effectively
accommodates ongoing expansion of the company’s services and customer base.
At Crawford Media, the mass digitisation of clients’ content involves the generation of
thousands of media files, all at the high bit rates and large file sizes suitable for production.
As its business continued to grow, the resilience limitations of its existing archive
architecture became ever more obvious.
The integration of Lattus with Crawford’s existing archive approach was the final step
in the development of the company’s second generation managed archive, Amber. Amber,
named after the prized substance that preserves prehistoric specimens, provides a level
of immunity to system failure and data corruption not previously achievable. Crawford’s
second generation archive offers peace of mind for organisations concerned with long-
term security and access for their content.
For further information visit: www.quantum.com