The global EOS Group, one of Europe's leading providers of financial and
authorization services for the banking and insurance business sectors,
employs about 5,000 people and has experienced rapid growth over the
last few years. And at its headquarters in Hamburg, to meet their
increasing business demands they faced a number of IT challenges: These
include the processing and verification of sensitive customer data, more
automation of how to acquire new clients, tracking and maintaining
accounting information and maintaining and alerting their clients on
important follow-ups and reminders, to processing payables and
collections of receivables and the buying and selling of portfolio items
- all these services are top priority jobs for the IT headquarters
team.
The Challenge: To get control of
their ever-growing amounts of data, EOS decided it needed to find a
flexible, extensible and easy-to-manage solution to improve their
storage and storage area network (SAN). They also need a very high
availability solution and this aspect would play a critical role in
their decision, obviously they also needed to find a way to save money
on operational costs and were looking for a simultaneous reduction in
energy and maintenance costs.
They needed to do a massive
expansion of their data centers to keep up with growth and they knew
they needed to modernize their systems to achieve greater productivity.
They decided a completely new solution was a necessity.
The Solution:
The financial services EOS opted for Storage Virtualization Software
solution from DataCore to virtualize, manage and work across their
Fujitsu ETERNUS DX80 storage systems and PRIMERGY servers within the
SAN.
The result: The EOS Group benefited from increased
performance, the highest levels of data protection and reduced
maintenance costs.
Eight Fujitsu ETERNUS DX80 storage systems,
each with 36 terabytes of net disk space and four Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600
servers allowed the EOS Group to scale up well beyond its original 30
terabytes of capacity. After the expansion they now manage 288 terabytes
of net capacity under DataCore storage virtualization control - and if
they have additional data growth it will no longer be a problem since
they can easily scale the architecture. And thanks to the DataCore
virtualization solution, they now all can manage all their storage in a
common way and scale independently of all the underlying physical
hardware.
What else did EOS want? Greater business
continuity, resiliency from major failures and disaster recovery, of
course. Therefore Fujitusu and DataCore combined to achieve an even
higher level of protection and business continuity and deal with
disaster events. The system was set up with mirrored data to a remote
site that was reflected fully and kept in sync with the main site. The
remote site was located across town and took advantage of DataCore's
ability to stretch mirrors at high-speed and the software automatically
updates and mirrors the data to create identical virtual disks that
reside on different drives and can be arbitrarily far apart. With
DataCore, EOS has achieved its goal for greater business continuity and
disaster recovery.