Zadara Storage Starcom Case Study
IT SERVICES
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
Starcom leverages Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) to improve performance by 33% while supporting their managed services worldwide
“We chose Zadara Storage because they provided the enterprise class performance and data protection features necessary to support our critical applications.” Steve Donaghue, Director of Hosting Services, Starcom
Customer Profile: Starcom provides on-premise and cloud solutions as well as technical support, consultancy and systems integration services. Challenge: • Needed to replace their older EMC and NetApp arrays. • Required a high-availability and disaster recovery architecture. • Improved overall performance. • Wanted to leverage an OpEx as-a-service model. Solution: • Replaced EMC and NetApp with Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array and Multi-Zone HA. Results: • Deployed an enterprise-class high-availability, disaster recovery architecture. • Improved VMware performance by 33%. • Deployed an On-Premises as a Service (OPaaS) solution to keep physical storage within their data centers.
Starcom replaces EMC and NetApp arrays with Zadara Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Starcom is the UK’s leading supplier of integrated business systems for the retail, manufacturing and distribution sectors. Like many other corporate IT organizations, they were facing a refresh cycle of their storage hardware. As part of a strategic IT infrastructure review, Starcom investigated the leading enterprise storage vendors for alternative solutions to their existing legacy arrays. The goal was to break away from the 3-5 year cycle of hardware CapEx refresh and see if there was a realistic OpEx alternative.
support their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence, e-commerce, hosting and managed services businesses. The VPSA solution supports their VMware- and Microsoft-based applications in data centers located in Europe and North America.
By leveraging Zadara’s On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) solution, Starcom gained the benefits of an OpEx, pay-asyou-go model, along with an important element of control from having the After a rigorous evaluation, Starcom storage hardware reside inside its own selected the Zadara VPSA solution to data centers – something the firm replace their legacy EMC VNX and strongly preferred. NetApp FAS storage arrays. The new Zadara VPSA enterprise storage-as-aservice (STaaS) solution was deployed to
“We found Zadara’s On-Premise as a Service offering to be far more flexible and cost-effective than the EMC and NetApp products we had been using.”
“We recognized significant savings by moving from a CapEx charge to an OpEx consumption approach that complements our business model.” – Steve Donaghue, Director of Hosting Services, Starcom
Data protection was a critical requirement for the Starcom team. Managing their customer’s critical business applications requires a storage infrastructure with the highest levels of enterprise-grade capabilities. With Zadara’s advanced data protection features including snapshots, clones, replication and data encryption, the Starcom team are comfortable that their customer’s critical data is well protected.
second (IOPS) on their VMware-based applications.
“We chose Zadara Storage because they provided the enterprise class performance and data protection features necessary to support our critical applications,” said Steve Donaghue, Director of Hosting Services at Starcom. “By implementing the Zadara iSER option, we are seeing 33% more IOPS in our VMware environment. We found their On To add an additional level of high- Premise as a Service offering to be far availability, Starcom has chosen to more flexible and cost-effective than deploy Zadara’s Multithe EMC and NetApp Zone HA feature between products we had been “With the their data centers, which using. Additionally, we Zadara iSER provides metropolitan recognized significant option, we are failover should one of savings by moving from a their data centers suffer a seeing 33% more CapEx charge to an OpEx catastrophic failure. In the consumption approach IOPS in our unlikely event of one of that complements our VMware their data centers going business model.” environment.” completely offline, the Starcom is an example of a architecture supports a world-class corporation who recogfailover to a secondary location nized that the traditional model of ensuring that their customer’s purchasing and managing storage applications continue to run arrays was not meeting their requireseamlessly. ments. By researching the market, Performance was another key they found an alternative to the 3-5 requirement during the evaluation year purchase, manage, replace cycle cycle. It was important not to trade of capital expense. By leveraging the one set of features at the expense of Zadara VPSA operating expense-based performance. To ensure the highest pay as you go model, they addressed levels of performance, Starcom is their scalability, reliability, perforleveraging Zadara’s endpoint iSER mance and cost targets. Additionally, connectivity option between the VPSA they leveraged the Zadara On Premise storage and the compute servers. By as a Service (OPaaS) model to meet adding this option, Starcom has their desire to keep their storage onrecognized a 33% increase in I/Os per premise and behind their firewall.
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.
JAN082016
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
Starcom leverages Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) to improve performance by 33% while supporting their managed services worldwide
“We chose Zadara Storage because they provided the enterprise class performance and data protection features necessary to support our critical applications.” Steve Donaghue, Director of Hosting Services, Starcom
Customer Profile: Starcom provides on-premise and cloud solutions as well as technical support, consultancy and systems integration services. Challenge: • Needed to replace their older EMC and NetApp arrays. • Required a high-availability and disaster recovery architecture. • Improved overall performance. • Wanted to leverage an OpEx as-a-service model. Solution: • Replaced EMC and NetApp with Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array and Multi-Zone HA. Results: • Deployed an enterprise-class high-availability, disaster recovery architecture. • Improved VMware performance by 33%. • Deployed an On-Premises as a Service (OPaaS) solution to keep physical storage within their data centers.
Starcom replaces EMC and NetApp arrays with Zadara Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Starcom is the UK’s leading supplier of integrated business systems for the retail, manufacturing and distribution sectors. Like many other corporate IT organizations, they were facing a refresh cycle of their storage hardware. As part of a strategic IT infrastructure review, Starcom investigated the leading enterprise storage vendors for alternative solutions to their existing legacy arrays. The goal was to break away from the 3-5 year cycle of hardware CapEx refresh and see if there was a realistic OpEx alternative.
support their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence, e-commerce, hosting and managed services businesses. The VPSA solution supports their VMware- and Microsoft-based applications in data centers located in Europe and North America.
By leveraging Zadara’s On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) solution, Starcom gained the benefits of an OpEx, pay-asyou-go model, along with an important element of control from having the After a rigorous evaluation, Starcom storage hardware reside inside its own selected the Zadara VPSA solution to data centers – something the firm replace their legacy EMC VNX and strongly preferred. NetApp FAS storage arrays. The new Zadara VPSA enterprise storage-as-aservice (STaaS) solution was deployed to
“We found Zadara’s On-Premise as a Service offering to be far more flexible and cost-effective than the EMC and NetApp products we had been using.”
“We recognized significant savings by moving from a CapEx charge to an OpEx consumption approach that complements our business model.” – Steve Donaghue, Director of Hosting Services, Starcom
Data protection was a critical requirement for the Starcom team. Managing their customer’s critical business applications requires a storage infrastructure with the highest levels of enterprise-grade capabilities. With Zadara’s advanced data protection features including snapshots, clones, replication and data encryption, the Starcom team are comfortable that their customer’s critical data is well protected.
second (IOPS) on their VMware-based applications.
“We chose Zadara Storage because they provided the enterprise class performance and data protection features necessary to support our critical applications,” said Steve Donaghue, Director of Hosting Services at Starcom. “By implementing the Zadara iSER option, we are seeing 33% more IOPS in our VMware environment. We found their On To add an additional level of high- Premise as a Service offering to be far availability, Starcom has chosen to more flexible and cost-effective than deploy Zadara’s Multithe EMC and NetApp Zone HA feature between products we had been “With the their data centers, which using. Additionally, we Zadara iSER provides metropolitan recognized significant option, we are failover should one of savings by moving from a their data centers suffer a seeing 33% more CapEx charge to an OpEx catastrophic failure. In the consumption approach IOPS in our unlikely event of one of that complements our VMware their data centers going business model.” environment.” completely offline, the Starcom is an example of a architecture supports a world-class corporation who recogfailover to a secondary location nized that the traditional model of ensuring that their customer’s purchasing and managing storage applications continue to run arrays was not meeting their requireseamlessly. ments. By researching the market, Performance was another key they found an alternative to the 3-5 requirement during the evaluation year purchase, manage, replace cycle cycle. It was important not to trade of capital expense. By leveraging the one set of features at the expense of Zadara VPSA operating expense-based performance. To ensure the highest pay as you go model, they addressed levels of performance, Starcom is their scalability, reliability, perforleveraging Zadara’s endpoint iSER mance and cost targets. Additionally, connectivity option between the VPSA they leveraged the Zadara On Premise storage and the compute servers. By as a Service (OPaaS) model to meet adding this option, Starcom has their desire to keep their storage onrecognized a 33% increase in I/Os per premise and behind their firewall.
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.
JAN082016
