Success Stories
"Dropped"Shipment Requires Secure Disk Eradication – Manufacturing
A major U.S. based instrumentation company encountered an unusual situation upon delivery of a new disk subsystem. When the delivery company dropped the equipment off at their dock they “literally” dropped the equipment, rendering the subsystem inoperable. More…
Water Main Break Puts Tape Operations at Risk – Healthcare
A major U.S. health benefits provider encountered a water main break in their main, tape processing data center. Initially undetected, water collecting under their raised floor gradually affected the operating conditions of their automated tape environment. Humidity levels increased until they exceeded the wet bulb maximum, putting petabytes of stored data for its customers and employees potentially at risk. More…
European Financial Services Giant Assures Secure Data Destruction – Financial Services
A top-twenty European insurance and financial services provider with a global presence set out to refresh its disk storage technology in two data centres in Belgium. In keeping with corporate policy they needed to ensure that no data would be accessible once it left their control. The systems included more than 850 hard disk drives from four disk subsystems, totalling 113TB. These drives required on-site data destruction to ensure that the information on the disks could not be compromised. More…
Telecom leader consolidates tape libraries for more effective DR -- Telecom
The Telecommunications Act of 1984 started a cascade of change that has continued to this day. Couple that with amazing changes in technology and it has made for both turbulent and exciting times for telecom providers. One such provider has been at the center of this change and is looking for ways to continuously adapt its business model in the wake of change. With major acquisitions and consolidations it has found itself presiding over dozens of data centers, many with varying levels and ages of technology – some compatible, some not. More…
Global concern recovers value from languishing media – Manufacturing
A global, diversified company that has grown rapidly over the years, both organically and through acquisition encountered IT challenges integrating and consolidating new entities. The challenges were particularly daunting considering that one of their core business principles is operating excellence and deployment of leading edge information technology as a means to that end. More…
Secure and cost-effective disk eradication – Banking
If you were to categorize industries on a scale of one to 10 by the virulence of their data growth, the banking industry would probably rate as an 11. Why? In addition to their massive organic growth that results from innovation in how they interact with their customers comes the industry’s long-term consolidation trend. More…
Migration for access and cost control – Healthcare
A major bio-pharmaceutical concern’s unique business drives unique storage requirements. Not only do they have massive amounts of clinical and research data to store (in perpetuity), they need to be able to readily access that data on demand to adhere to some of the world’s most stringent compliance requirements. Due to multiple, incompatible and aging tape technologies, they were not well positioned to do this. More…
Global entertainment giant improves data accessibility and lowers cost
A global entertainment giant made the strategic decision to separate the data environments of two fast growing, smaller business groups. Doing so also meant separating their data, of course. The data consists of precious film and video digital assets that are accessed and exploited continually over time. More…