Zadara Storage Lawter Case Study
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Lawter Replaces IBM storage with Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) to Triple their Data Storage Performance
“As part of our infrastructure upgrade, we set an initial goal to double our performance. With Zadara Storage, we tripled our performance. This was far beyond our expectations.” Antony Poppe, Global Network and Virtualization Manager, Lawter
Customer Profile: Lawter serves the graphic arts, adhesives, specialty coatings, aroma chemicals and the synthetic rubber industries. They are a global business operating in over 20 countries with 11 manufacturing and technology centers. Challenge: • Replace older IBM storage • Improve scalability, performance, security and simplify management • Move from CapEx to OpEx model Solution: • Replaced IBM with Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) Results: • Tripled performance - from 11K IOPS to 30K IOPS • Addressed scalability concerns and simplified management • Moved from a CapEx model to a pure pay-as-you-go OpEx model
Zadara helps Lawter address performance, scalability, security and cost concerns Lawter is a company strong in pine chemicals and built on products developed using pine chemical resources. Lawter serves the graphic arts, adhesives, specialty coatings, aroma chemicals and the synthetic rubber industries. Lawter, has a long history and is a result of many highly successful businesses coming together over more than 60 years. Today, they are a global business operating in over 20 countries with 11 manufacturing and technology centers. Their strength is built on formulating technology, strategic raw material sourcing and their global network of manufacturing capabilities. The company recently embarked on an IT initiative to upgrade their storage infrastructure that was supporting their
SAP applications worldwide. The goal was to replace their older IBM storage with a more scalable, higher performing and easier to manage solution. Additionally, they set a goal to move from a capital-expense (CapEx) to an operational-expense (OpEx) model. With business critical SAP applications hosted by Dimension Data in both Amsterdam and London, Lawter was looking to leverage the scalability and flexibility of cloud-based, as-a-service solutions. Their SAP application ran on SQL Server in a High-Availability (HA) cluster.
“When we moved our storage from a traditional array into the cloud, we were very impressed with Zadara’s performance isolation.” “Zadara was the only solution we could find that provided isolation to eliminate the ‘noisy neighbor’ problem. Additionally, their as-aservice business model dramatically reduced our management overhead, further reducing our overall costs.”
– Antony Poppe, Global Network and Virtualization Manager, Lawter
With the guidance of their partner virtualization manager for Lawter. Dimension Data, Lawter identified "They were the only solution we could Zadara Storage as a candidate for their find that provided isolation to storage needs. With an enterprise- eliminate the ‘noisy neighbor’ problem. grade storage solution, offered as a Additionally, their as-a-service business pay-as-you-go OpEx service, the Zadara model dramatically reduced our storage cloud met their primary needs. management overhead, further After a thorough analysis, Lawter chose reducing our overall costs." to proceed with Zadara Storage as the foundation of their new storage By replacing their older storage array infrastructure. with the Zadara VPSA, Lawter has been able to move away from a CapEx model One of Lawter’s primary concerns was and leverage the OpEx Storage-as-athat the prior IBM infrastructure was Service model provided by Zadara only providing about 11,000 IOPS, and Storage. In addition to the cost Lawter needed a minimum of 20,000 advantages of an OpEx-only model, IOPS in each location. With Lawter is now fully elastic the support of Dimension and scalable in all “We tripled our Data, Lawter deployed the directions. They can add or performance. Zadara Virtual Private remove storage capacity This was 50% Storage Array (VPSA) and performance as needed higher than our Enterprise Storage-as-aand only pay for what they Service architecture and is use. This eliminates the original goal.” now seeing 30,000 IOPS – need to over provision or triple their prior performance – and storage resources, and therefore, 50% greater than their initial target. further reduces costs. A related performance goal was to Lawter was facing typical data storage address the “noisy neighbor” problem challenges – scalability, performance, where shared resources allow one security and cost containment. By application to impact another applica- investigating their options, they tion’s performance. The Zadara VPSA realized that Zadara’s cloud-based, architecture supports full isolation, so storage-as-a-service not only solved that performance is guaranteed and their initial challenges, but moved not impacted by other applications or them from a CapEx model into a true users. OpEx model. This both reduces cost and management overhead, but also "When we moved our storage from a enables Lawter to eliminate the 3-5 traditional array into the cloud, we year replacement cycle. With Zadara’s were very impressed with Zadara’s Storage Cloud, Lawter can rest easy performance isolation," said Antony knowing that they have a fully scalable, Poppe, global network and and elastic storage infrastructure.
Zadara Storage U.S. Headquarters 6 Venture, Suite 140 Irvine, CA 92618 (949) 251-0360
International Headquarters Beit Tavor 1 Yokneam 20692 Israel
For more information: www.zadarastorage.com [email protected]
© 2015 Zadara Storage. All rights reserved. Company or Product names may be the property of their respective owners.
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CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
Lawter Replaces IBM storage with Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) to Triple their Data Storage Performance
“As part of our infrastructure upgrade, we set an initial goal to double our performance. With Zadara Storage, we tripled our performance. This was far beyond our expectations.” Antony Poppe, Global Network and Virtualization Manager, Lawter
Customer Profile: Lawter serves the graphic arts, adhesives, specialty coatings, aroma chemicals and the synthetic rubber industries. They are a global business operating in over 20 countries with 11 manufacturing and technology centers. Challenge: • Replace older IBM storage • Improve scalability, performance, security and simplify management • Move from CapEx to OpEx model Solution: • Replaced IBM with Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) Results: • Tripled performance - from 11K IOPS to 30K IOPS • Addressed scalability concerns and simplified management • Moved from a CapEx model to a pure pay-as-you-go OpEx model
Zadara helps Lawter address performance, scalability, security and cost concerns Lawter is a company strong in pine chemicals and built on products developed using pine chemical resources. Lawter serves the graphic arts, adhesives, specialty coatings, aroma chemicals and the synthetic rubber industries. Lawter, has a long history and is a result of many highly successful businesses coming together over more than 60 years. Today, they are a global business operating in over 20 countries with 11 manufacturing and technology centers. Their strength is built on formulating technology, strategic raw material sourcing and their global network of manufacturing capabilities. The company recently embarked on an IT initiative to upgrade their storage infrastructure that was supporting their
SAP applications worldwide. The goal was to replace their older IBM storage with a more scalable, higher performing and easier to manage solution. Additionally, they set a goal to move from a capital-expense (CapEx) to an operational-expense (OpEx) model. With business critical SAP applications hosted by Dimension Data in both Amsterdam and London, Lawter was looking to leverage the scalability and flexibility of cloud-based, as-a-service solutions. Their SAP application ran on SQL Server in a High-Availability (HA) cluster.
“When we moved our storage from a traditional array into the cloud, we were very impressed with Zadara’s performance isolation.” “Zadara was the only solution we could find that provided isolation to eliminate the ‘noisy neighbor’ problem. Additionally, their as-aservice business model dramatically reduced our management overhead, further reducing our overall costs.”
– Antony Poppe, Global Network and Virtualization Manager, Lawter
With the guidance of their partner virtualization manager for Lawter. Dimension Data, Lawter identified "They were the only solution we could Zadara Storage as a candidate for their find that provided isolation to storage needs. With an enterprise- eliminate the ‘noisy neighbor’ problem. grade storage solution, offered as a Additionally, their as-a-service business pay-as-you-go OpEx service, the Zadara model dramatically reduced our storage cloud met their primary needs. management overhead, further After a thorough analysis, Lawter chose reducing our overall costs." to proceed with Zadara Storage as the foundation of their new storage By replacing their older storage array infrastructure. with the Zadara VPSA, Lawter has been able to move away from a CapEx model One of Lawter’s primary concerns was and leverage the OpEx Storage-as-athat the prior IBM infrastructure was Service model provided by Zadara only providing about 11,000 IOPS, and Storage. In addition to the cost Lawter needed a minimum of 20,000 advantages of an OpEx-only model, IOPS in each location. With Lawter is now fully elastic the support of Dimension and scalable in all “We tripled our Data, Lawter deployed the directions. They can add or performance. Zadara Virtual Private remove storage capacity This was 50% Storage Array (VPSA) and performance as needed higher than our Enterprise Storage-as-aand only pay for what they Service architecture and is use. This eliminates the original goal.” now seeing 30,000 IOPS – need to over provision or triple their prior performance – and storage resources, and therefore, 50% greater than their initial target. further reduces costs. A related performance goal was to Lawter was facing typical data storage address the “noisy neighbor” problem challenges – scalability, performance, where shared resources allow one security and cost containment. By application to impact another applica- investigating their options, they tion’s performance. The Zadara VPSA realized that Zadara’s cloud-based, architecture supports full isolation, so storage-as-a-service not only solved that performance is guaranteed and their initial challenges, but moved not impacted by other applications or them from a CapEx model into a true users. OpEx model. This both reduces cost and management overhead, but also "When we moved our storage from a enables Lawter to eliminate the 3-5 traditional array into the cloud, we year replacement cycle. With Zadara’s were very impressed with Zadara’s Storage Cloud, Lawter can rest easy performance isolation," said Antony knowing that they have a fully scalable, Poppe, global network and and elastic storage infrastructure.
Zadara Storage U.S. Headquarters 6 Venture, Suite 140 Irvine, CA 92618 (949) 251-0360
International Headquarters Beit Tavor 1 Yokneam 20692 Israel
For more information: www.zadarastorage.com [email protected]
© 2015 Zadara Storage. All rights reserved. Company or Product names may be the property of their respective owners.
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