Saturday, February 21, 2009

Case Story Feature: Volkswagen Unit Centralizes, Virtualizes Its Storage with DataCore SANmelody

DataCore's SANmelody lets the VW Financial Services unit provide storage from a central pool for all types of applications

http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=172103&WT.svl=news2_1

Despite a long series of ad campaigns in which it encouraged customers to "Think Small," Volkswagen in the U.K. was finding out that it needed to think big. The company's data storage requirements were growing exponentially. Email and database requirements were getting bigger all the time. Meanwhile, the company was moving to a blade server environment to keep its data center from being any bigger than it needed to be. The answer was to virtualize its storage.