Quoting from their Press Release:
DataCore Software today announced that DBV-Winterthur, one of the largest insurance groups in Germany, has implemented a highly available virtual storage solution and resource usage analysis system based on DataCore's SANsymphony(TM) and SANmaestro(TM) software. DBV-Winterthur needed a solution that made it affordable to add capacity to meet its yearly data growth and would add centralized storage management while maintaining the highest levels of storage protection across its two remotely located storage area networks (SANs). Furthermore, to achieve their desired response levels, the company wanted to implement a campus wide virtual SAN for flexibility and importantly it had to overcome the performance degradation associated with combining their two existing and separate computer center SANs. By implementing SANsymphony, a hardware independent, virtualization solution along with performance acceleration technologies, the insurer has met these objectives and has been able to affordably enlarge the capacity of their SAN with storage subsystems that cost about one-fifth of what was paid previously for their enterprise- class RAID arrays.
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Analysis and forecasting with SANmaestro
In addition to the auto-provisioning of storage capacity, which enables all the storage in the storage pools to be allocated across the SANs, DBV- Winterthur selected DataCore's optional analysis tool SANmaestro to analyze their overall storage requirements and resource utilization. SANmaestro is able to record and chart performance data, capacity and frequency of use at a particular time as well as over extended periods, enabling DBV-Winterthur to trend and monitor performance hotspots, poor utilization, and to improve system use and predictability.
Read the entire press release, here.