| Swiss National Park The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| The opening ceremony on May 31, 2008 marked the completion of a signifi cant and extensive project for the Swiss National Park: after a planning and building phase stretching over 6 years, the new National Park Centre in Zernez was fi nally complete. Offering enough space for up to 250 visitors, the exhibition centre required terminals to serve as information points. Numerous PCs from different providers were tested but the Mini PC developed by transtec proved most convincing. |
The Mini PC, SENYO 610, is one of the smallest
PCs on the market. Weighing just 1.3 kilograms
and measuring just 17.2 centimetres
in length and 4.2 centimetres in height, it is
similar in size to a CD drive. At 20 dBA, noise
emission is whisper quiet. Despite its compact
exterior, the SENYO 600 doesn’t lag behind
other standard desktop PCs in terms of performance.
The Mini PC managed to meet all the
requirements of the new National Park Centre
where visitors want to stay and fi nd out information
without being disturbed.
The project also involved the National Park Centre integrating two transtec PROVIGO storage systems for their internal IT needs which run in a Unix environment with transtec servers. To leverage maximum availability, the data is mirrored between both systems. |
„We will defi nitely work together with transtec
in the future and are already planning virtualising
our servers. Being a solutions provider,
transtec can provide the required virtualisation
know-how. I’ve been impressed by transtec
and appreciate the fast and reliable support
which is vital with complex projects and installations.
The fi rst pilot tests should start in
Spring 2010,“ explains Christoph Mühlethaler, IT manager. |
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| HanseVision GmbH The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| HanseVision GmbH, founded in Hamburg in 1999, advises customers on how to optimise their business processes by applying modern information technology (IT). The aim is to consolidate competitive advantages already gained on the market and generate new ones. High-performance and sustainable IT not only increases productivity but also helps to reduce costs in the long term.Depending on each customer’s requirements, the IT service provider puts together a project team which provides the customer with optimum support in task-solving strategies. HanseVision GmbH is supported by 100 IT experts and can thus offer optimum service for a wide variety of requirements. The company is a Gold Certified Partner and specialises in Microsoft solutions with particular focus on SharePoint, BizTalk and Commerce Server Technology from Microsoft. | With the upgrade to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with transtec Storage Servers as central IP-SAN storage system, HanseVision can move virtual machines in operation onto other physical servers. The IT service provider has thus managed to increase the availability of its server systems. Since the upgrade to the new server operating system, these server systems can also be serviced while running. By integrating Microsoft System Center Technologies, HanseVision can also ensure flexible system utilisation: Administration tools support the IT service provider in sharing system resources and proactively monitoring system utilisation. Vulnerabilities can be detected in advance and troubleshooted rapidly with live migration. |
“The system works stable and fast with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. It offers live migration of virtual machines and desktop virtualisation using tools without HanseVision having to buy applications from others. Virtual machines can be transferred in real time to a host that has free resources available. This makes our systems safer, saves on electricity costs and rises the availability.” According to Lorenz Goebel, CEO of HanseVision GmbH. |
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| ISG The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| The ISG Sanitär-Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG was founded as a syndicate of sanitary wholesalers in 1956 and has continued to grow since then. The HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) market association provides a synergy platform for all its partners to enable better purchasing conditions, wider selling markets and thus a stronger competitive position for every single member. Since 2006, the ISG also provides the central processing service with EDI clearing centre for other purchasing associations. |
The virtualisation solution from transtec replaces all the 35 previously used servers. Considerably less hardware not only means less administration and maintenance but also the total energy costs have been drastically reduced. What‘s more, virtualisation units can be utilised far more effi ciently as CPU performance is only provided where it is really needed. A total of three transtec CCV-V55002U virtualisation servers are connected with one transtec virtualisation storage bundle CCSVRISCSI with redundant iSCSI. Another four physical server cores complete the IT infrastructure solution. |
"Even during the planning stage, the excellent impression we gained of transtec during a road show was confi rmed. The transtec solution met all our requirements and we were fully satisfi ed. transtec made it clear that we should contact them if we had any questions about the offer. And they proved true to their word. We didn’t receive any calls inquiring how far we were with our decision. The company gave us time to come to a decision. A quality which seems to have gone astray with some of the competition from whom we received unnecessary and annoying follow-up calls." Marco Hesse, IT and data services |
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| Medis medical imaging systems nv The complete reference as PDF >> |
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In the past, the development, sales and support departments of Medis Medical, a provider of software for the quantification of medical images, used local servers for storage and backups. This method could not cope with growing storage demands and the need to reduce maintenance overhead.
Medis sought a manufacturer- and platform-independent storage system with better performance and management features. |
The transtec storage system selected by Medis centres around a transtec 5000M NAS & iSCSI Storage Server with 6 TB of SATA storage, expandable to 12 TB (24 x 500GB) in a RAID 6 configuration with integrated iSCSI snapshots. |
"Decisive in picking the transtec system was its attractive price, as well as its good performance and high scalability. [...] We now have a central storage system that meets our storage needs, at present in the terabyte range. We especially value the ability of this solution to be expanded to meet growing storage needs – we expect that our data volume will double during the coming year." Lars Schiemanck, technical director at Medis |
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| The Sachsen-Anhalt State Institute for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| The Staff Office for Agricultural Information Systems of the Sachsen-Anhalt State Institute for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture, is, among other things, responsible for hardware and software support of the Agencies for Agriculture, Rural Land Consolidation and Forestry. It assists its personnel in mastering the high volume of applications for EU equalisation payments. The old system, in use since 2001, could no longer meet increased demands on storage capacity, performance and availability. |
After analysing its IT infrastructure LLFG decided that instead of expanding its old hardware, as originally planned, it would acquire a completely new solution. transtec was commisioned to deliver, configure and install the new hardware, which provides the required high performance and availability. The capacity of the system used for backups is now several terabytes.
A high-performance, versatile transtec Linux-based SAN (Storage Area Network) solution running SuSE Enterprise Server 9 is now in employed. It consists of two transtec 1002L servers, a transtec AMD Quad Opteron Server, two QLogic SAN Connectivity Kit 3000’s, each with a SANBox 5200 Fibre Channel 8-port switch and a QLA2340 Fibre Channel host bus adapter, Overland NEO 2000 backup system and a transtec 6600 Fibre Channel RAID system. |
"We were quite satisfied with transtec’s SAN and storage know-how. Our technical questions were quickly relayed to a competent specialist – we didn’t have to spend minutes waiting in queue." Uwe Gathge, StAIS network and system administrator |
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| T-Mobile Austria The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| With more than 3.4 million customers, T-Mobile Austria has become a successful driving force in the Austrian mobile communications sector. Customer and service orientation is at the heart of the company‘s identity. In the development of projects and solutions, T-Mobile Austria focuses on easy handling based on technological advancements. The company‘s international presence enables customers, even outside Austria, to profit from a wide range of products and services which they can use internationally as well as in their home network. T-Mobile Austria is a subsidiary of T-Mobile International, the mobile phone branch of Deutschen Telekom AG, and is thus one of the largest companies in the telecom sector in the world. |
An UMTS/GPRS monitoring solution was installed at two locations. Storage systems from the transtec PROVIGO 600 series with a storage volume of up to 138 TB were connected to 12 server systems:
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"With its excellent price-performance ratio, transtec helped us get this project up and running. This just would not have been possible without a financially viable solution as the monitoring software alone generates high costs and we want to ensure our customers high quality."
"With the "Try and Buy" service from transtec, we could test all the components we needed without any risk. transtec fully met all the specifications and passed our test." Dr. Höchtl, Senior Manager Core-PO/Packet Networks at T-Mobile |
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| Nexellent - Upgrading The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| The Swiss company nexellent AG in Glattbrugg is a supplier of managed data centre services for outsourcing IT infrastructures. In 2006, the company responded to customer demand and launched storage-as-a-service (SaaS). Once the new service was successfully up and running, an upgrade was soon required: a system to fulfil the highest high availability demands. transtec supported the Swiss IT service provider during both business development phases as an adviser and delivered the right solution. | Together with the experts at transtec AG, the Swiss IT outsourcing service provider developed a system solution for storage and backup services. The hardware is based on a high-availability storage system developed by transtec. Two transtec PROVIGO 550 SAS Business RAIDs form the heart of the nexellent SAN. The special features of these storage systems include low maintenance, convenient operation and a capacity of up to 60 hard drives and 45 Terabytes. In addition, it consumes around half the energy of other standard systems. By implementing the storage virtualisation solution, the storage infrastructure could be expanded with features such as snapshots. |
"transtec is the ideal partner for implementing our extended SaaS portfolio. We were utterly convinced with transtec‘s specialist know-how and expertise. From an economic perspective, the decision was made even easier by the fact that we were given an attractive price for the hardware. With our storage services, we have an optimum position in the IT service sector. We can now provide our customers with complete data
management solutions, as storage and backup ideally complement our service portfolio." Enrico Goldhahn, Product and Marketing Manager at nexellent sums up the transtec service |
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| Novell SUSE The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| SUSE LINUX Products GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL). Novell offers a Linux platform which is designed for the seamless integration into diverse platform and application environments as well as a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps companies around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With this infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. More information under www.novell.com. |
SUSE Linux Products GmbH, a subsidiary of Novell, provides its customers with a wide range of data and software solutions. This is why the company needs a storage system with a high capacity for the high-availability sector. At the same time, the systems must deliver a maximum fail safety, otherwise problems could arise at the customers. The cooperation between SUSE Linux Products GmbH and transtec started in 1997. The hardware manufacturer from Tuebingen delivers, in collaboration with those responsible at SUSE Linux Products GmbH, a hardware concept which holds its own under the most demanding non-stop running conditions with low downtimes. A total of eight transtec PROVIGO 600 Fibre Channel storage arrays are installed to deliver a total capacity of around 33.5 Terabytes of which one is located at the company's site in Prague. Since Spring 2008, seven servers from the CALLEO 320 series are in operation at the site in Nuremberg along with 44 desktop PCs and four UPS systems for uninterruptible power supply. |
"We have trusted in the technology delivered by transtec since 1997. The hardware is stable and reliable even under demanding continuous operation conditions and is an important foundation for research and development at SUSE Linux Products GmbH."
"As a leading IT company in the Linux sector, we know exactly what hardware we need. In order to guarantee the high availability of our IT landscape, we rely on high-quality and reliable hardware systems as well as first-class support. What's important is to find a manufacturer that adapts its system concepts to the customer's requirements. transtec provides us with both; quality and competent service." Thomas Siedentopf, Team Leader of Research and Development Administration at SUSE Linux Products GmbH |
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| Tradebit AG The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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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| Nexellent The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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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| GIATA The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| GIATA, die Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung und Vermarktung interaktiver Tourismusanwendungen mbH in Berlin, supports renowned tour operators such as TUI, Thomas Cook or Expedia in preparing their travel data for the Internet. The service-provider manages an extensive graphic data base of travel destinations visited by its customers, for example. The storage resources of this graphic archive had finally reached their limits. For this reason and following consulting by transtec, GIATA opted to implement a new and more modern server solution. | The new network storage for graphic data for GIATA comprises several CALLEO 100 servers with PROVIGO 510 RAIDs. Both components are extremely reliable in operation as well as being very feasible thanks to their low maintenance demands. Accordingly, GIATA customers can access their data at all times as well as benefiting from the low risk of system failure. |
"At transtec, we were particularly convinced of the quality as well as competent advice and uncomplicated service provided. We outlined our demands to the responsible Sales Manager who then developed a tailor-made offer following extensive consulting. Thanks to modern server technology, our services are now distinguished by improved availability and our customers benefit from the higher data transfer rates." Heiko Bollert who is responsible for IT at GIATA |
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| blueCarat AG The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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
impressive."
"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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| BELNET The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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. |
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 The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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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| The Augsburg Central Hospital The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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
of data backups.
The individual backup levels comprise:
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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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| IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement The complete reference as PDF >> |
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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.
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"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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| SHS Informationssysteme AG The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| SHS Informationssysteme AG (since 2006 SHS VIVEON AG), listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, is one of the leading European providers of IT customer management solutions. Its product line centres on data acquisition, order evaluation, credit risk management, customer value management, active limit management and customer analytics and business intelligence. Data warehousing, portal and CRM solutions round out the SHS portfolio. SHS customers include telecoms, financial service providers, E-tailers and the automotive industry. |
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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| City Biel (Bienne) The complete reference as PDF >> |
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| 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. | After carrying out a detailed analysis of its backup infrastructure at the end of 2004, the Biel IT department made a decision to upgrade. The upgrade project lasted from January to March of 2005, consumed 100 man-hours and resulted in an expenditure of 70,000 Swiss francs. transtec was selected as prime contractor. It was to supply the hardware, provide consultation and be responsible for maintenance. Hitachi SATA-based disk arrays and Atempo backup software were used in the implementation. |
"Initially we considered acquiring a pure disk-to-disk solution. However, we were not convinced that this technology was mature enough and we therefore decided to go with a tape solution."
"Now that the Overland library is in use I can take a holiday without worrying about what may happen in my absence and the same applies to the rest of the staff: we all know that if worse comes to worse backups can be restored without a hitch." Enrico Merlo |
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