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Besides protecting against data loss and providing high availability for business-critical applications, Sparkassen Informatik is benefiting from the cost advantages of centralized storage management, which has contributed to improving hard disk utilization from 50 to over 85 percent. Capacity shortfalls, high SAN management software costs and high outlays of time and staff on storage management for the Windows server environment led Sparkassen Informatik to consolidate using SANsymphony software. SANsymphony is an open, cross-platform storage management platform that manages all storage resources in a centralized virtual pool, automatically allocating storage from the SAN to the applications and mirroring the production data from one computer center to a contingency site. Upon selecting SANsymphony, all the storage-intensive Windows servers in the SAN - approximately 30 servers based on Windows 2000 or Windows NT - began to receive storage services from SANsymphony. "We were looking for a highly available storage solution that would let us cut the operating costs of our existing SAN infrastructure without sacrificing performance," said Matthias Walter, head of Sparkassen Informatik's Windows Server Systems Department in Münster, Germany. "We found the solution in SANsymphony. All in all, we can respond to customer requests faster and more flexibly than ever before." SANsymphony is running on high performance, off-the-shelf IBM servers with Windows 2000. The SANsymphony nodes currently control a total of 10 TB of storage capacity for 30 Windows servers running bank-specific applications, SQL and Oracle data base systems, Lotus Domino, and file and system management services. Besides high availability, Sparkassen Informatik also makes use of SANsymphony's Network Managed Volumes (NMVs). NMVs automatically provide applications with storage from the storage pool as the need arises. Only storage capacity that is physically needed is allocated, thereby boosting storage utilization. Storage expansion occurs automatically without host-based repartitioning, with its time-consuming reboots and lengthy application downtimes. "SANsymphony is a flexible solution with an open approach that makes it fit perfectly into existing SAN architectures - and enables them to grow and improve as technology changes," said Bharat Kumar, EMEA marketing director at DataCore. "Such investments pay for themselves quickly through lower operating costs and greater storage utilization. SAN hardware is being deployed extensively in the financial sector to cope with huge data volume and stringent security requirements. All the same, far too many companies find they are unable to take maximum advantage of their existing infrastructure. We're delighted to help Sparkassen Informatik get the best out of its storage resources." To follow up the successful launch of the storage solution, Sparkassen Informatik plans to install two more SANsymphony servers to further improve the availability and performance of its data through quadruple failure protection. For storage expansion, Sparkassen Informatik is already profiting from the open network architecture of DataCore technology. Inexpensive JBODS can be used instead of high-end RAID arrays, since SANsymphony's high-performance and availability attributes improve the quality of service of all the underlying hardware, regardless of class or vendor. About Sparkassen Informatik Sparkassen Informatik is the largest provider of IT services in the Sparkassen Group, a German savings and loan institution. More than 250 Sparkassen banks in Baden-Württemberg, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz with an average balance sheet total of more than 500 billion euros - a market share of over 50 percent - take advantage of their services. Its other customers include companies in the S-Financial Group such as state building societies and insurance companies. The services offered by Sparkassen Informatik cover the entire spectrum of information technology, from the development and provision of IT applications, networks and technical infrastructure through consulting, training and support all the way to the operation of computer centers. About DataCore Software DataCore Software is an independent software vendor specializing in consolidating, controlling and automating storage for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. The company's award-winning SANsymphony software uses Intel-based storage servers running Windows to pool, cache, and replicate data from all the major disk and disk array suppliers. Its innovative technology centralizes storage management for Global 2000 enterprise data centers and powers OEM storage subsystems with advanced features, non-stop availability and unmatched performance. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com. DataCore, the DataCore logo and SANsymphony are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. ### Corporate Contacts: DataCore Software Corporation (407) 331 4699 pr@datacore.com DataCore Software GmbH +49 (0) 89 24445 2151 emeainfo@datacore.com Sparkassen Informatik GmbH & Co. KG (0) 69 820091 0 info@sparkassen-informatik.de Media Contacts: (954) 377-6000 pr@datacore.com KONZEPT PR GmbH Michael Baumann +49 (0) 821 3430016 m.baumann@konzept-pr.de Regina Glaser +49 (0) 821 3430017 r.glaser@konzept.pr.de
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