Eurotech provide new ONStor SUN/StorageTek SAN/NAS Gateway solution for Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust.
07 Dec 2006
"The ONStor NAS solution provides impressive data throughput and availability together with a much reduced management overhead...
...while the SUN/Storagetek SAN has future-proofed the data storage needs of the Trust for the next few years with plenty of scope for expansion, and anxiety about our back-up window is a thing of the past. Once we had overcome the challenges of data migration, the benefits of this solution became immediately apparent."
Simon Mortimore, Information Manager at Royal Surrey.
This solution is nearing its first year of operation and over 2000 users have now been transferred from a mixture of Windows Cluster and other file systems to the new ONStor solution. This uses the ONStor Bobcat 2240 in a HA (High Availability) configuration for load balancing and automatic failover, with Enterprise Class SUN/StorageTek Tiered storage including - Full Fibre and SATA disk. Much improved performance and greater system resilience are now provided via this new solution from Eurotech. (Please refer to the schematic for typical ONStor SAN/NAS Design). A new Backup strategy has also been implemented using Veritas NetBackup with an efficient and secure 'disk to disk to tape', solution, using the available Tiered storage.
A Brocade SAN Fabric enables high speed access for the addition of various databases, with high I/O block level handling requirements. Eurotech provide onsite IT services with dedicated engineers assigned to the site for instant familiarity for supported systems, leading to faster problem solving.
