Global Marketer Safeguards a Petabyte of Business-Critical Data with JetStor® Solutions

This customer is a leading provider of premium-quality beauty and wellness products. Founded over thirty years ago, the enterprise annually garners several billion dollars in revenues by marketing scores of nutritional and health goods via sales channels on five continents. The company is based in the American southwest.

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Today, JetStor platforms store a petabyte of backup and archival data on the company’s SAN and at a remote backup site. This data is always available in the event production data is lost or internal audits are performed. The solutions deliver the performance needed for backups and can support solid-state drives should additional speed ever be necessary.

“Before acquiring additional storage, we carefully evaluate available products, which is why we continue to invest in JetStor arrays,” said the global system architect. “Since we bought our first JetStor platforms in 1999, they’ve proven to be high-value solutions that deliver very competitive costs per gigabyte.”

Reliability contributes to the value of JetStor platforms and reduces their ownership costs. They are engineered for non-stop availability with fully cableless designs, hot-swappable dual power supplies, dual controllers, and drives. Their support for intelligent power management saves energy and extends service life. For additional protection, their RAID Manager application sends email notifications to administrators when issues are detected or maintenance is required.

“JetStor arrays fit our requirements in that once they’re installed, they don’t require much attention,” added the global systems architect. “They also provide the scalability we require to meet our ever-increasing troves of data. We can easily add JetStor JBODs to seamlessly expand the function-rich storage in our data center.”

When the company needed additional storage for backups on its SAN, the latest solutions it deployed were the JetStor SAS 816FD Array and then the JetStor SAS 816JD 12G Dual JBOD. Both have 8 terabyte hard drives in each of their 16-bay chassis, providing a total capacity of 256 terabytes, or a quarter of a petabyte.

“As with all of our JetStor solutions, deployment was straightforward,” explained the global systems architect. “Our data center team racked and configured the 3U devices. After our engineers confirmed the installation, we created RAID 5 groups for data protection should a drive fail.”

The JetStor SAS 816FD Array has redundant 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel links to multiple Brocade Fibre Channel switches, ensuring availability should a link or even a switch fail.  A redundant 8Gb/sec gig Fibre Channel connects the JetStor SAS 816JD JBOD to the 816FD platform.

The two JetStor SAS 716F RAID arrays, the two JetStor SAS 716J 6G JBODs, and the JetStor SAS 716J 12G V2 JBOD are similarly configured in the SAN. They each have four terabyte drives in their 16-bay chassis. The hot-swappable drives on all of the company’s JetStor solutions ensure operations are never disrupted should a drive ever fail.

The IT staff uses the browser-based RAID Manager application to configure, manage, and monitor all JetStor RAID systems. “We use the console even to remotely manage JetStor platforms at a second backup site,” said the global systems architect. We always have visibility into, and control over, our backup architecture.”

JETSTOR

JetStor meets the evolving needs for data storage, protection, and management. We leverage leading technologies to offer high-value solutions for NAS, SANs, clouds, and hyper-converged infrastructures (HCIs).  Since 1994, our customers have spanned virtually every industry, and range from Fortune 500 enterprises to small and medium-sized firms.  We support environments from data centers and clouds to branch offices and remote sites.

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