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KMK Law Implements NexGen n5-150 Storage System [Manufacturing Close - Up](Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NexGen Storage announced its n5 Series storage system has been deployed by Keating Muething & Klekamp to meet its high performance IT requirements and to guarantee response times for its mission- and business-critical applications. The NexGen n5 system supports KMK Law's VMware vSphere environment plus its key legal applications, and was sized to provide sufficient performance to support the firm's transition to VDI over the coming year. According to the Company, with the NexGen n5-150 storage system, KMK Law achieved: -More than 10X the available IOPS of its previous solution -A 70 percent reduction in rack space with double the capacity of the previous solution -Increased lawyer and staff productivity -Sufficient capacity and performance to support its key legal and operational applications on a single storage system and to accommodate future growth requirements, including a planned VDI deployment "We can get half a terabyte of data dropped in our laps on any given day. Our previous system couldn't meet our performance needs so we looked into a variety of solutions including by HP 3PAR, Hitachi Data Systems, Pure Storage, Violin Memory, Nimble Storage and NexGen Storage," said Rich Wills, CIO for KMK Law. "NexGen really stood out. We were impressed with its vision for enterprise storage and its ability to easily meet our peak IOPS performance needs. What's more, NexGen's Storage QoS feature provides guaranteed performance for the datastores in our VMware vSphere environment." KMK Law's IT group supports more than 50 applications on 90 VMware vSphere-based virtual servers, and manages millions of files and documents within its litigation support, document management and e-discovery database systems. The IT group determined that the firm needed 50,000 IOPS to provide the response times its users needed and to phase in VDI over the next two years. These needs far outpaced the roughly 4,000 IOPS of its previous two-filer solution. KMK Law selected and deployed the NexGen n5-150 storage system with two capacity packs, providing a total of 99TBs of high-performance hybrid storage and 150,000 IOPS, all within a 9U footprint. "Our previous 50TB solution took a total of 30U of rack space, while the 99TBs of NexGen storage take only 9U," added Wills. "It's fun to show people what we're replacing our prior solution with - all of it is being consolidated into three boxes with more capacity and more horsepower. It's impressive." Combining high performance PCIe SSDs from Fusion-io and NexGen's performance management features has provided the solution that KMK Law needed to address the requirements of its users. NexGen's Storage QoS feature allowed the firm's IT staff to guarantee performance for the datastores in its VMware vSphere environment by assigning a 'mission-critical' policy designation, the Company noted. Microsoft Exchange was also designated mission-critical, while most other applications will be considered business-critical. With NexGen Storage QoS, the IT group can guarantee the performance necessary to maintain targeted performance levels for all of the firm's applications. Equally importantly, the NexGen system will support the firm's planned virtual desktop system when it transitions most employees to a VMware View-based VDI implementation over the coming year. The NexGen platform allows users to consolidate VDI and other high- priority applications onto a single SAN by isolating workloads using storage QoS. By assigning performance levels to each application, IT administrators can ensure performance never drops below targeted levels. NexGen Storage offers a PCIe solid-state storage system designed from the ground up to manage performance like capacity. More Information: www.nexgenstorage.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2013 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |