Zadara
Storage, the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service
(STaaS) today announced that Lawter
has replaced their IBM storage with the Zadara Virtual Private Storage
Array (VPSA) architecture to support their SAP applications worldwide.
By working with Zadara’s partner Dimension Data, Lawter has been able to
upgrade their aging IT infrastructure to address immediate performance,
security and cost challenges, and also position themselves for future
growth.
Zadara’s partner Dimension Data, a global provider of IT solutions and
services, has successfully completed the first phase of the
modernization of the ICT infrastructure of resin producer
Lawter. Lawter, a subsidiary of the Japanese company Harima Chemicals
Group, was looking to replace their older infrastructure with a more
scalable, higher performing, and easier to manage environment.
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
is running on SQL Server in a High-Availability (HA) cluster. One of
Lawter’s primary concerns was that the prior IBM infrastructure was only
providing about 11,000 IOPS and Lawter needed a minimum of 20,000 IOPS
in each location. With the guidance of Dimension Data, Lawter deployed
the Zadara VPSA Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service architecture and is now
seeing 30,000 IOPS – or triple their prior performance, and 50% greater
than their initial goal.
By replacing their older storage array with the Zadara VPSA, Lawter is
able to move away from a CapEx model and leverage the OpEx
Storage-as-a-Service model provided by Zadara Storage. In addition to
the cost advantages of an OpEx-only model, Lawter is now fully elastic
and scalable in all directions. They can add or remove storage capacity
and performance as needed and only pay for what they use.
"When we moved our storage from a traditional array into the cloud, we
were very impressed with Zadara’s performance isolation," said Antony
Poppe, global network and virtualization manager for Lawter. "They were
the only solution we could find that provided isolation to eliminate the
‘noisy neighbor’ problem. Additionally, their as-a-service business
model dramatically reduced our management overhead, further reducing our
overall costs."
“We are pleased to be able to add Lawter to the Zadara family,” said
Dani Naor, vice president, international sales, at Zadara Storage.
“Their requirements for high-performance, highly-secure data storage in
an agile, scalable, as-a-service model fit our profile perfectly. More
and more customers worldwide are abandoning the traditional CapEx array
model and adopting Zadara’s Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) model to
address their growing data storage requirements.”