|
Harvey Mudd Future Proof's Storage With RELDATA
RELDATA
December 3, 2007
Implements blisteringly fast Unified iSCSI, NAS,
Replication Storage System
Parsippany, NJ -- RELDATA, the leading supplier of a new
generation of consolidated storage solutions, today
announced that Harvey Mudd College (HMC), one of the premier
math, science and engineering institutions in the United
States, has chosen RELDATA 9240 Unified Storage Systems to
satisfy the comprehensive storage needs of the school’s
versatile IT infrastructure.
"RELDATA was the first vendor capable of delivering exactly
what we were looking for," said Andy Davenport, Systems and
Networks Group Leader at HMC. "For a long time, we were
almost certainly an appropriate candidate for a medium-sized
Fibre Channel SAN, but we were put off by the overall price
and the per-gigabyte licensing policy of the large SAN
vendors. Everything favors iSCSI in the long run, and with
the emergence of 10Gb IP (Ethernet), we have enough headroom
to scale. RELDATA has delivered a genuinely innovative
product at an extremely competitive price."
The RELDATA 9240 Unified Storage Systems at HMC
include
9240 controllers in an active-active failover configuration,
RELvos™ 2.1 virtualization software for enterprise-class
unified storage services, 10GbE network connectivity, and
RELDATA SAS disk. RELvos delivers enterprise-class iSCSI
SAN, NAS (CIFS/NFS), and a comprehensive set of backup and
replication features from a single high-availability
platform.
"One of the things that has impressed me most about the
system is that RELDATA really does deliver a fully
comprehensive feature set without extra cost add-ons," said
Davenport. "The 9240/RELvos product has a lot of features,
but thanks to the logical layout of the management
interface, we were able to complete the installation without
on-site support from RELDATA, even though it was
enthusiastically offered."
The college was also attracted to the openness of the
system. Even as part of a complete solution, the RELDATA
systems offer open back-end connectivity to third party
disks. This provides complete freedom from vendor lock-in
for future capacity upgrades, as well as the opportunity to
redeploy existing storage investments as part of a new
system.
"RELDATA clearly understands the needs of the market and
provides my customers with the flexibility to choose the
storage solution that meets their needs," said Reid Hymes,
President, RJ Sales Company. "In this case, a turnkey 9240
SAS/SATA Unified Storage System met HMC needs the best, and
additionally, they were able to add other disks they own and
seamlessly deliver IP SAN, NAS and WAN replication from one
virtualized storage pool, all with 10GbE performance."
HMC has capitalized on the openness and versatility of the
RELDATA solution, even using the system to test storage
arrays built by the students as a part of their studies.
RELDATA’s open storage connectivity allows HMC to connect to
a variety of third-party arrays and to use inexpensive JBODs
in conjunction with the 9240’s built-in software RAID
functionality. All storage is virtualized into a single pool
from which administrators can carve out and resize virtual
storage volumes or LUNs as required to meet user application
requirements. With blisteringly fast 10Gb Ethernet
connectivity, the 9240 system delivers storage exactly as it
is needed to all applications and users across the
organization.
"RELDATA’s technology is consistent with our views on the
likely future direction of IT strategy. The focus on
connectivity, interoperability and open standards makes the
RELDATA Unified Storage Solution a relatively safe,
future-proof investment free from the hidden costs of vendor
lock-in," concludes Davenport. "And by leveraging a number
of very potent open-source technologies rather than
depending entirely on in-house proprietary development,
RELDATA has delivered an unbeatable product."
"RELDATA delivers unrivaled price/performance and lowest
Total Cost of Ownership," said David Hubbard, CEO RELDATA.
"Storage costs represent more than just the cost of disks.
We urge customers to evaluate all the costs — the cost of
proprietary disks and license fees as they scale storage;
the cost of hardware/software as they scale performance; the
impact to business applications without non-disruptive data
migration; and the cost of personnel due to system
complexity. When they look at price/performance and TCO,
RELDATA is the clear choice."
About RELDATA
RELDATA is the leader of a new generation of consolidated
storage solutions that deliver unified iSCSI SAN, NAS and
WAN replication functions on a single virtualized platform.
The solutions are easy to implement, operate and manage, yet
deliver enterprise-class functionality. Customers can
independently scale disk storage capacity, storage services
and network performance without any application disruption.
This "pay-as-you-grow" design eliminates the need for
forklift box upgrades and liberates customers from vendor
lock-in. With unrivaled price/performance and low total cost
of ownership, users can easily and significantly reduce
their storage costs. RELDATA products are designed to
embrace third-party disk drives and to co-exist with more
expensive storage solutions from vendors such as Network
ApplianceÒ and EMCÒ. RELDATA is headquartered in New Jersey.
RELDATA products are available worldwide through authorized
value-added resellers and system integrators. More
information is available at www.RELDATA.com.
RELDATA and RELvos are registered trademarks of RELDATA
Inc. All others are trade names or trademarks of their
respective owners. |
