Lynn Haber

Jim McMasters, senior vice president of IT at Tandy Brands Accessories, was growing increasingly embarrassed by the poor performance of the company’s ERP reporting tool — one he initially had high hopes for. While the tool did some of the things the company’s users needed, it lacked power. Then McMasters got wind of Crosswalk’s iGrid […]

In recent years, Scott County, Minnesota, has moved from direct-attached storage (DAS) to a virtualized IT infrastructure and storage area network (SAN) based on VMware and Compellent Technologies’ Storage Center, and the county is just beginning to discover what its new infrastructure can do. With about 90,000 residents and climbing, Scott County is one of […]

When Summit Energy Services looked at its future growth, company decision-makers learned it was time to find more cost-effective storage, backup and disaster recovery technology. So the company tossed out pricey systems and brought in storage, backup and disaster recovery products that could help support the company’s growth. An international provider of energy management services […]

A busy hospital, King’s Daughters Medical Center of Ashland, Kentucky, had no time to deal with aging, disparate storage systems. That’s why, beginning in 2005, the medical institution partnered with Sun Microsystems for an enterprise SAN and data storage solution. Today, KDMC relies on Sun StorageTek products and solutions to meet its daily and long-term […]

A year ago, fast-growing Freeze.com, a global online media and marketing solutions company, redesigned its storage architecture to meet its growing storage needs and seasonal fluctuations. Today, the company uses a mix of storage solutions from BlueArc, Sun StorageTek and FalconStor Software. In business since 2000, Freeze.com says its mission is to be on every […]

When Canadian-based Valtus Imagery Services, a high-volume distributor of digital orthophotography, expanded operations in the U.S., the company knew it would need to expand storage too. That’s when the company decided to broaden its partnership with ONStor. Part of the North West Group based in Calgary, Alberta, Valtus’ business customers were mostly small oil and […]

Since opening its doors in July 2003, Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa has grown its IT infrastructure using CommVault’s QiNetix software. Today, the organization is running the recently updated Galaxy V6 for backup, archiving and recovery, and is currently in the process of implementing CommVault DataMigrator, a component of the vendor’s Unified Data management suite, […]

About a year and a half ago, IT decision makers at Cubist Pharmaceuticals knew they had to find a better and more cost-effective storage solution for their critical research and business information. A few months ago, the company weeded out the competition and turned to Pillar Data Systems. Today, all of Cubist’s 30 databases, which […]

With business growing by leaps and bounds, the $6 billion University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) needed to lower its IT costs while supporting continued growth. To solve the conundrum, the health care system turned to IBM as its sole enterprise solution partner from servers to storage. Creating a three-tier storage architecture using IBM storage […]

Faced with the daunting task of providing citizens, banks, insurance companies and other authorized users access to more than 20 million discrete images residing in its Filenet Document Management System, the County of San Bernardino Auditor-Controller/Recorder’s Office turned to a clustered storage solution from Isilon Systems. The Isilon IQ storage system and Isilon SyncIQ Replication […]

Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) needed an affordable and reliable storage subsystem to put together a cost-effective, turnkey Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communications (RIS/PACS) product that it could market to smaller healthcare organizations. The digital records management company found exactly what it needed in Infortrend’s EonStor product line. A company that got its start more […]

As legal firms grapple with the escalating costs of e-mail review and analysis, software applications such as Clearwell’s E-mail Intelligence Platform are expected to grow in popularity, saving law firms and their clients both time and money. Users such as law firm Pooley & Oliver LLP are already reaping tremendous benefits and gaining competitive advantage […]