Lynn Haber

While upgrading its storage architecture, the Cimarron Group, an entertainment marketing and advertising company, found it also needed a sophisticated backup and restore solution. Pickings seemed slim until the organization hooked up with Atempo, a vendor whose solution not only supported Apple’s Xsan but also satisfied additional in-house requirements. Located in Hollywood, Calif., the Cimarron […]

When it comes to data security, CNL Financial Group, one of the country’s largest private real estate investment and development companies, wants to be a leader in its industry. To meet that objective, CNL recently deployed a storage security appliance from Decru Inc. for encrypted tape backup. “Privacy and confidentiality of our customer data is […]

St. Mary’s and All Angels School can be counted among the early SMB adopters of Fibre Channel SAN technology that are reaping big benefits. The non-denominational Christian school based in Aliso Viejo, Calif. recognized four years ago that focusing on technology for its middle school students was critical for their preparation for high school. Since […]

Priceline.com is reaping big savings with a utility storage solution from 3PAR. Interested in reducing storage deployment times, overhead and complexity, Priceline CIO Ron Rose has had his eye on the developing utility storage sector for several years. While content with the company’s existing Fibre Channel SAN solution, Rose saw an economic model with utility […]

It’s that time of year again, when hurricane season prompts organizations to make sure that their disaster recovery plans are in order. In Florida, where hurricane activity peaks May through November, companies like ABC Fine Wines & Spirits have a plan of action for data storage security. With more than 150 retail outlets and 2,000 […]

When it came to solving its data storage problems, the Haas School of Business at the University of California’s Berkeley campus hit the books. What it learned was that the solution to more affordable storage was to implement a complementary iSCSI-based storage area network (SAN). Founded in 1898, making it the oldest U.S. business school […]

With its data storage needs soaring nearly 10-fold in less than five years, Baptist Memorial Health Care (BMHC) knew the time had come to address storage challenges such as backup, disaster recovery and archiving applications. Today, the medical institution not only boasts improved data recovery times, but it also has a cost-effective, fast and reliable […]

When Pacific Capital Bancorp looked ahead, it banked its competitive future on a new SAN architecture to serve its network of community banks. The financial institution came up a winner. A new storage design and implementation architecture that began as a study almost three years ago is scheduled for completion next month. Santa Barbara, Calif.-based […]

The need to consolidate and centralize a financial application service provider’s IT servers led to the creation of Europe’s largest iSCSI storage area network (SAN). With the burden of servicing and maintaining approximately 2,000 decentralized servers becoming too great, ASP SDC Udvikling A/S knew there had to be a more cost-effective and efficient way to […]

When Kichler Lighting gutted its data center several years ago, company decision makers recognized that an integral component of the redesign should be powerful storage infrastructure. Today, the current two-tiered storage architecture, not only gives Kichler the flexibility, efficiency, capacity and speed it needs today, but also provides the headroom to plan for tomorrow. Of […]