References: Storage
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nexellent explores new paths with transtec
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| nexellent AG in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, provides managed data centre services for outsourcing IT infrastructures. An increasing number of customers desired additional solutions in the area of storage and backup in order to comply with the new statutory regulations. The company was therefore increasingly faced with the challenge of expanding its IT services and therefore its business area. The new storage service was of particular interest for nexellent as it could be easily integrated into its existing portfolio. transtec supported the Swiss IT service-provider in its capacity as consultant and supplied the right hardware. | The Swiss service-provider for IT outsourcing collaborated with the experts at transtec AG in Rümlang and Tübingen to develop a system solution for storage and backup services. The hardware component forms a high-available storage system developed by transtec. The core of the nexellent SAN is formed by a transtec PROVIGO 550 SAS Business RAID. Low maintenance requirements, easy operation and a capacity of up to 60 hard drives and 45 TB are what distinguish this storage system. What’s more, it only requires half of the electricity consumed by other standard systems while integrated snapshot functions ensure maximum security. |
“transtec is the ideal partner for realising our new services in the area of storage and backup. First of all, we were entirely convinced by the great consulting competence displayed by transtec. The fact that we were able to procure the requisite hardware for an attractive price also made the decision an easy one from an economic perspective. The new storage services mean that we now enjoy an ideal position as an IT service-provider. We are able to offer our customers comprehensive solutions for their Data Management as storage and backup supplement the data services offered to date in an optimum manner.”
Enrico Goldhahn, Product and Marketing Manager at nexellent. |
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“24-carat” IT infrastructure for blueCarat
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| Since 2001, blueCarat AG with headquarters in Cologne, has been providing IT solutions and is involved in consulting as well as software development. The company focuses on Web-oriented technologies and the customers are from the telecommunications, industrial, commercial and public sectors. The aim of the IT upgrade was to cover various aspects: Besides updating the technical infrastructure, a split into autonomous administration units was also an issue. Another key target was virtualisation which would enable resources to be shared depending on requirements. |
The new complete solution has been in operation at blueCarat since May 2007, at the heart of which is a RAID system from transtec. The transtec PROVIGO 610 shares the storage capacities between the virtual machines which run on two CALLEO 301 transtec servers.
In addition, four CALLEO 101 models from the same family are also in use: firstly, they are used in the VPN in the demilitarised zone and secondly, as a firewall and VPN terminals at the subsidiaries. |
"Our decision to go with transtec was based on the previous good experience with the hardware. Other reasons included the attractive price-performance ratio and the fast response to our inquiries which can only be delivered by a small to mid-sized company like transtec. The fast logistics process from transtec was also
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"The extensive consultation service impressed us from the very start. The smooth implementation also spoke in favour of transtec. The conversion was worth every cent - we are now more flexible and can respond faster to our customers." Norbert Meyer, IT service management consultant at blueCarat. |
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More FTP performance for Belgian research network
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BELNET, the state network agency, was established in 1993. It supplies the Belgian government as well as all key national research facilities and universities with online services and Internet access. But the portfolio also includes technically more demanding services such as video conferences and VPN services (Virtual Private Network). BELNET enables research facilities to access international networks such as Internet2 and GÉANT. Apart from all of these services, BELNET has also been offering its customers capacity for FTP transfer (File Transfer Protocol) for quite some time although it has reached its limits at times in terms of bandwidth performance and hard drive capacity.
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BELNET aimed to increase customer satisfaction in the area of FTP in the form of an improved technical offering. The Belgian Internet service provider wished to better utilise the capacities of its bandwidth connections while simultaneously increasing the number of connections to the server clusters. By linking powerful servers to become clusters, the aim was to improve and utilise the technical resources in a more efficient manner. The idea to merge servers to clusters was a true innovation as there are only a few providers of FTP storage using this technology. transtec recommended BELNET an iSCSI storage system with switches based on a GB Ethernet connection. Users of BELNET services now benefit from a 10 GB Ethernet connection. transtec CALLEO 301 servers are used for front-end applications. The cluster solution ensures the requisite high availability |
"After having consulted different players in the IT market during our tender, we opted for transtec as we are very satisfied with the prices and quality of their products. In our innovative FTP project, we have particularly benefited from the swift support provided by transtec whenever technical problems arose during tests and implementation. "
Pascal Panneels, who is responsible for the area of Servers & Services at BELNET. |
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J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. virtualises their storage systems
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The J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co., founded in 1865 and with the main office in Esslingen am Neckar, is an independent company and focuses on two areas of technology: Exhaust gas technology (converters, soot filters, exhaust silencers) as well as auxiliary and supplementary heating systems for cars, vans, heavy goods vehicles, buses, construction vehicles and boats. The growing quantities of data arising from development applications and the heterogeneity of the IT environment caused IT managers an ever-increasing number of headaches. The administration of many IT single systems, including storage applications, was becoming increasingly unclear and more expensive. |
At the start of 2007, the SANmelody virtualisation software, from DataCore, was installed on the available hardware at the headquarters in Esslingen. It comprises of two transtec SAN Storage Domain Servers (SDS) with synchronous mirroring, authentic automatic failover/failback, thin provisioning and alternate pathing for the application servers. In February 2007, the Neunkirchen site received a separate SDS with new storage hardware in the form of redundant PROVIGO 610 FC/SATA RAID systems, including thin provisioning and asynchronous IP replication. Since then, Eberspächer has raised the utilisation capacities of both SAN installations by using other systems from the PROVIGO-610 series. Eberspächer is currently managing around 35 terabytes with the help of storage virtualisation, with an upward trend. |
“Naturally we spoke to other suppliers of virtualisation solutions before we made the final decision. The reason we chose transtec is, among others, because both the competence of their employees and the attractive cost effectiveness impressed us.“ “It wasn’t just the advice we received, it was also the unproblematic implementation that justified working together with transtec. Our IT administrators are more than satisfied with the new system and the users haven’t even noticed the change.” “We will continue to push ahead with the virtualisation process in our office due to these positive experiences. Dr Thomas Rückle, TI (technical informatics) at Eberspächer. |
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University of Stuttgart
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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 |
LINUX HPC cluster with 50 nodes based on AMD Opteron Processors and a total of 108 GB main memory which includes a quad-processor node.
Networking is over two separate Gigabit networks.
The three master nodes are completely redundant and access a high-performance PROVIGO 660 Fibre Channel RAID system with 2.3 TB capacity. The result is an overall performance of 440 GFlops (peak) or 274 GFlops (Linpack). To ensure adequate cooling, the cluster is installed in room with an air-conditioning unit drawing 15kW. |
“There were three reasons for selecting transtec as a provider. First, the transtec contacts assigned to the project impressed us with their technical know-how and competence; second, and very important, transtec is in a position to provide all of the required hardware and software from a single source; third the price/performance ratio of the transtec products was high.“
Bernd Markert, explaining his institute’s choice of transtec. |
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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: Storage - 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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SHS Informationssysteme AG
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| SHS, a leading European provider of IT customer management solutions, utilised various types of servers for local storage of the databases assigned to customer projects. The diversity of the servers in use made monitoring network resources difficult, with the consequence that there were frequent problems due to storage quotas being exceeded. |
To cope with the complexity of SHS’s projects, as many network resources as possible should be centrally administratable and, in addition, highly scalable network storage is required.
Two transtec 1002 servers in conjunction with a transtec 6100 Premium RAID System provided a readily scalable, high-capacity storage system with excellent central administration capabilities. |
“In choosing transtec we selected a partner that enjoys our full confidence. transtec’s price/performance ratio was unbeatable – a system with comparable performance from another manufacturer would have cost both us and our customers considerably more. Also decisive were transtec’s good support and knowledgeable consultation which had also proved their worth in previous projects”.
Florian Hostenkamp, SHS Informationssysteme AG. |
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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: Storage - 2005
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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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The Queen Mary University in London places one’s confidence in transtec’s expertise
The Department of Electronic Engineering at the Queen Mary University modernized its lab to provide a state-of-the-art platform for the students
London, 30 March 2005.
New lab at the Queen Mary University
The Department of Electronic Engineering at the Queen Mary University is a high-tech area specialising in telecommunications, Internet and e-Commerce. It forms highly-qualified and talented young engineers to Internet Computing and e-Commerce Engineering. This Department must keep abreast of the latest developments in commerce. A sophisticated IT environment is required to prepare students for their careers. To keep pace with changing technologies and to be in line with the evolution of the Internet, the Department of Electronic Engineering decided to modernise its lab.
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The Department of Electronic Engineering at the Queen Mary University modernized its lab to provide a state-of-the-art platform for the students
London, 30 March 2005.
New lab at the Queen Mary University
The Department of Electronic Engineering at the Queen Mary University is a high-tech area specialising in telecommunications, Internet and e-Commerce. It forms highly-qualified and talented young engineers to Internet Computing and e-Commerce Engineering. This Department must keep abreast of the latest developments in commerce. A sophisticated IT environment is required to prepare students for their careers. To keep pace with changing technologies and to be in line with the evolution of the Internet, the Department of Electronic Engineering decided to modernise its lab.
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Sulzer Innotec Selects transtec Cluster Systems for R & D
transtec cluster systems provide a Swiss R & D firm with the computing power needed for flow simulations
Zurich, 16 March, 2005.
Sulzer Innotec, the R & D division of the Swiss Sulzer Group, has selected a powerful transtec cluster system to provide the number-crunching power needed for complex three-dimensional flow simulation. In its initial configuration the cluster has a capacity of 10TB and consists of sixteen dual-processor compute nodes, one dual-Opteron master node and a quad-Opteron administration node. Plans call for an additional sixteen compute nodes to be added in the third quarter of 2005. Explaining why he is highly pleased with the choice of the transtec system, Dr. Torsten Wintergerste, who is in charge of flow technology at Sulzer Innotec, said, “The transtec combination of an economical price, rigor-ous project management and effective cost planning was just what we were looking for.”
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transtec cluster systems provide a Swiss R & D firm with the computing power needed for flow simulations
Zurich, 16 March, 2005.
Sulzer Innotec, the R & D division of the Swiss Sulzer Group, has selected a powerful transtec cluster system to provide the number-crunching power needed for complex three-dimensional flow simulation. In its initial configuration the cluster has a capacity of 10TB and consists of sixteen dual-processor compute nodes, one dual-Opteron master node and a quad-Opteron administration node. Plans call for an additional sixteen compute nodes to be added in the third quarter of 2005. Explaining why he is highly pleased with the choice of the transtec system, Dr. Torsten Wintergerste, who is in charge of flow technology at Sulzer Innotec, said, “The transtec combination of an economical price, rigor-ous project management and effective cost planning was just what we were looking for.”
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References: Storage - 2003
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Detecting Airflows with Simulations and Cutting-Edge 3-D Tools
transtec servers are the first step towards future Linux cluster solutions
Zurich, Switzerland, 21 October 2003.
AFC Air Flow Consulting (a spin-off of the ETH Zurich) is now using the latest completely reliable transtec servers to calculate and virtualize all types of airflows. Planning and development for many different applications are supported and even accelerated by the modern transtec technology used with this project. "Besides selecting a suitable methodology and software application, our hardware partner was another essential aspect for us," is how Alois Schälin, CEO of Air Flow Consulting, describes the process leading to the new cooperation with transtec.
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transtec servers are the first step towards future Linux cluster solutions
Zurich, Switzerland, 21 October 2003.
AFC Air Flow Consulting (a spin-off of the ETH Zurich) is now using the latest completely reliable transtec servers to calculate and virtualize all types of airflows. Planning and development for many different applications are supported and even accelerated by the modern transtec technology used with this project. "Besides selecting a suitable methodology and software application, our hardware partner was another essential aspect for us," is how Alois Schälin, CEO of Air Flow Consulting, describes the process leading to the new cooperation with transtec.
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Simon Hegele GmbH’s Flagship Now Loaded with transtec Technology
New IT system controls incoming and outgoing stock at the logistics company
Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 June 2003.
The Karlsruhe company Simon Hegele relies on IT made in Germany to manage logistics. The new Logistics Centre in Karlsdorf, Germany, which has over 34,000 square metres of storage and production space, has been fully equipped with a system from transtec. The IT company, with headquarters in Tuebingen, created Simon Hegele’s new system according to its built-to-order process which customises everything to meet the buyer’s needs.
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New IT system controls incoming and outgoing stock at the logistics company
Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 June 2003.
The Karlsruhe company Simon Hegele relies on IT made in Germany to manage logistics. The new Logistics Centre in Karlsdorf, Germany, which has over 34,000 square metres of storage and production space, has been fully equipped with a system from transtec. The IT company, with headquarters in Tuebingen, created Simon Hegele’s new system according to its built-to-order process which customises everything to meet the buyer’s needs.
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“Enjoy Our Fine Manners”
Vienna, Austria, 22 May 2003.
The English slogan above is used in advertising for Manner AG. Manner has been around for more than 100 years and with approximately 800 different products, is considered to be the flagship for the Austrian confectionery market. The traditional Viennese company relies today on transtec, the European IT system manufacturer, to ensure the security of its Windows Server solution.
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Vienna, Austria, 22 May 2003.
The English slogan above is used in advertising for Manner AG. Manner has been around for more than 100 years and with approximately 800 different products, is considered to be the flagship for the Austrian confectionery market. The traditional Viennese company relies today on transtec, the European IT system manufacturer, to ensure the security of its Windows Server solution.
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References: Storage - 2002
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transtec Server for DNA Analysis
Epigenomics, the biotech company, uses five
Tuebingen, March 21, 2002.
Epigenomics AG, the Berlin-based biotech company, uses for their cancer research five transtec 5000 RAID systems from the Tuebingen-based IT systems manufacturer transtec AG. The storage capacity of the systems serves as the basis for a data-intensive process in which the scientists analyse DNA methylation to obtain information on genetic changes in the genetic code of the samples examined.
The IT system, used as a file server, is based on the Linux operating system and has a storage capacity of more than 3 TB. By virtue of the RAID solution (redundant array of independent disks), Epigenomics speeds up the analysis of DNA methylation and, what is more, secures the requisite digital data.
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Epigenomics, the biotech company, uses five
Tuebingen, March 21, 2002.
Epigenomics AG, the Berlin-based biotech company, uses for their cancer research five transtec 5000 RAID systems from the Tuebingen-based IT systems manufacturer transtec AG. The storage capacity of the systems serves as the basis for a data-intensive process in which the scientists analyse DNA methylation to obtain information on genetic changes in the genetic code of the samples examined.
The IT system, used as a file server, is based on the Linux operating system and has a storage capacity of more than 3 TB. By virtue of the RAID solution (redundant array of independent disks), Epigenomics speeds up the analysis of DNA methylation and, what is more, secures the requisite digital data.
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