Johannesburg, 23 Mar 2009
PepsiCo company, Simba has invested in a larger storage unit to meet its growth needs for the next five years, with the implementation of an HP StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), supplied and implemented by IT services and solutions provider, Datacentrix.
Says Datacentrix account manager, Loren Silverman: "Simba was running out of space on its existing HP EVA4000 and needed a larger unit to cater for its projected growth. By opting for the EVA8100, a high performance, high capacity and high availability 'virtual' array storage solution, the company stands to reduce IT costs and complexity plus save time and space as compared to traditionally architected storage."
Designed for the data centre where there is a critical need for improved storage utilisation and scalability, the EVA meets application specific demands for consistent high transaction I/O for the customer and provides easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication and simplified storage administration.
Thiaan van der Walt, Information Technology Manager at Simba, states that since the completion of the project in November last year, the organisation has indeed experienced a number of benefits. "Not only has our new storage solution increased performance on the network dramatically, it has also reduced our backup time by around 25%. In addition, we can now access stored information must faster than previously," he explains. "When looking for a technology partner for this implementation, we wanted the best, most reliable services offering on the market and certainly found this in Datacentrix. The large group of Datacentrix staff that looks after our account provides an excellent level of service," Van der Walt concludes.
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