References: Consulting
Kundenreferenzen: Consulting - 2007
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The Augsburg Central Hospital
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The Augsburg Hospital is using an extensive, heterogeneous and high-availability server landscape for the electronic management of complex hospital operation and for secure data handling used for more than 150,000 patients annually.
Operating in a 24/7 hospital environment for 365 days a year means that the IT systems deployed are needed to provide the highest degree of reliability, the fastest protection of critical areas and short response times. The rapid increase in the demand for more memory requires a scaleable system, which can be extended without problem. |
The implementation of a two-level B2D2T storage solution from RAID systems as well as automated tape protection. An extensive LTO tape library with a large storage capacity on the backup server relieves the network and provides for the secure and quick archiving
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“We have an extremely reliable and lightning-quick system for uninterrupted 24-hour operation. Critical areas are also covered by a RAID hard drive. transtec was a competent and reliable partner, from the planning to the implementation of the system. We are more than satisfied with the solution”.
Peter Fahrmeier, responsible for system management at the Augsburg Hospital. |
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References: Consulting - 2006
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Tradebit AG
Storage and consulting
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Tradebit AG provides a cutting-edge platform for online sales of entertainment-related products suitable for a mass market. After the creation of its bitclix.de eSales site, Tradebit sought a hardware infrastructure that could cope with the resulting high storage volume.
In addition to adequate computing power, reliability and security, a high degree of expandability and scalability were required. |
Tradebit decided on the purchase of several transtec PROVIGO 410E iSCSI RAID systems, each with 3.75 TByte capacity and running under the Red Hat Global File System. |
“Scalability and the good price/performance ratio were the decisive factors in selecting transtec as a partner. A comparable commercially-available RAID-5 storage system at the same price would be inconceivable and a single-node system would fail to deliver the GbE performance in the LAN.”
Ralf Schwöbel, Tradebit’s CEO and Linux expert |
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IRSN
Clustering and consulting
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| The IRSN required a system that would provide the massive number-crunching capability required for computer simulation. Keeping within budget was important. Scalability was essential. |
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“The transtec team fully understood our problems and demonstrated a deep knowledge of clustering. Thanks to them, we now have a highly-reliable high-availability HPC solution. We especially appreciated the wide-ranging, competent support.”
Olivier Isnard. |
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GEAL mbH
Systems and consulting
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| GEAL’s projects are highly individual and range from the provision of single workstations to complex server systems. | The use of transtec Business PCs equipped with SCSI hard drives, which can be individually configured according to customer specifications. |
“Because we are not IT specialists we appreciate transtec’s flexibility and know-how and the reliability of its products. “
Reiner Krell, GEAL sales manager.ns. |
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Sport 1 GmbH
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Sport1.de, operated by Sport1 GmbH, is Germany’s most popular Internet portal for sport, providing in-depth coverage of a broad range of sports in both multimedia and print form. The site has enjoyed impressive growth since its founding in 1999.
To keep pace with the continuous increase of currently about 110 million monthly page impressions, it became necessary to replace outdated hardware and to expand server farms. |
Since Sport1 GmbH is continuously expanding its cross-media content on the Internet, mobile units and teletext, it requires a reliable and, above all, highly scalable IT infrastructure.
The deployment of high-performance transtec servers in the areas of community, Web content generation and storage. |
“In all cases the decision to select transtec was based on its reliability as well as its ability to adapt its hardware solutions to our special needs, something that its competitors either cannot do or at least not at what we consider a reasonable price.”
Arthur Lorenz from Sport1 GmbH. |
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The IT department of the Biel municipality in Switzerland relies on transtec to upgrade its backup infrastructure
The situation: Biel, a Swiss town in the Bienne district of the canton Bern has 50,000 inhabitants and is the largest bilingual city in Switzerland. The municipal IT department services forty or so servers and is also responsible for a 600-unit PC pool. The town’s municipal IT infrastructure is diversified – 180 different programs are in use and both hardware and users are spread over several locations.
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The situation: Biel, a Swiss town in the Bienne district of the canton Bern has 50,000 inhabitants and is the largest bilingual city in Switzerland. The municipal IT department services forty or so servers and is also responsible for a 600-unit PC pool. The town’s municipal IT infrastructure is diversified – 180 different programs are in use and both hardware and users are spread over several locations.
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References: Consulting - 2005
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University of Rostock
Clustering and consulting
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Prof. Ralf Ludwig‘s basic research in theoretical physical chemistry involves extremely CPU- and storage-intensive computer simulations. In fact, they are so demanding that using the university’s computing centre to carry them out was not feasible. Having a suitable cluster system at his disposal was the ideal solution but wiring together a cluster out of conventional PCs would result in a system that was vulnerable to failure and that would have a large maintenance overhead.
The challenge: A highly stable, readily scalable cluster system was needed that could run uninterrupted for months on end. In addition, it was to be capable of carrying out Prof. Ludwig‘s computations without costly and time-consuming modifications. |
transtec installed a 64-bit dual-Opteron HPC cluster system delivering a peak performance of 230 GFlops. |
In vetting potential providers the price/performance ratio of the transtec HPC cluster proved decisive; in fact, transtec’s bid was the lowest of all. In addition, transtec was able to supply all desired hardware and its service offer was superior – factors, which provided the Rostock research, team with an attractively short installation lead-time. Since its installation a year ago, the transtec HPC cluster has been running virtually uninterrupted and without a hitch. Should problems arise, transtec cluster specialists Leonardo Lapeira, Dr. Andreas Koch and Anastassios Kazakidis will be available to lend assistance. „Our research group appreciated the fact that quality and customer support are taken seriously by transtec.“ Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig, University of Rostock. |
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IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
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Research, which focuses on the Theory of Porous Media (TPM), involves computer simulations which are extremely CPU- and storage-intensive
Solving equations with a huge number of variables requirering massive computing power. |
transtec delivered six Overland NEO 2000 LTO-2 30-slot libraries and seven LTO-2 LoaderXpress 11-slot autoloaders to the eleven most important IRD locations. |
“transtec demonstrated a great deal of skill during the project, beginning with the support teams it organised and continuing with the business and administrative contacts through to training. transtec pre-sales support showed a great deal of understanding for our needs. Customer support was provided in depth and the outside support selected by transtec proved to be very competent.“
Luc Veillon, Head of IT security at the IRD and security delegate of the DSI. |
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University of Erlangen
Clustering and consulting
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The cluster system installed by transtec at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg was rated as one of five hundred fastest computers in the world when it went into operation eighteen-months ago. However, the growing computing needs of the engineering and scientific departments had brought the cluster to limits of its capacity. A decision was made to upgrade.
The challenge: transtec was commissioned to upgrade the university’s cluster system. It was stipulated that the upgrade should result in minimum interruption in user access and also maintain the integrity of the original system. |
• The new supercomputer, which is fully remotely administratable, consists of a total of 155 individual computers which function as compute nodes, frontends and file servers.
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“We were very satisfied with the performance of the original cluster, as well as with the availability of both hardware and software that it provided. The excellent support provided by transtec led to a close and fruitful co-operation and when the time came to upgrade transtec was our first choice.“
Dr. Gerhard Hergenröder, technical director of Regional Computing Centre. |
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