References: Servers
The Company The University Hospital of Tübingen (UKT – Universitätsklinik Tübingen) has established itself as one of the leading German university medical centres. The German Science Council has certifi ed the hospital as well as the medical faculty for its excellent services in the fi elds of research, teaching and healthcare and has acknowledged the university hospital’s “pacemaker” function in Germany. |
The Solution The solution designed and implemented by transtec virtualises the customer’s fi le servers, application servers and domain controllers and fully replaces the previous heterogeneous server infrastructure comprising eleven outdated individual servers. All 330 existing clients installed with varying operating systems and diverse system architectures could be seamlessly integrated into the new infrastructure. |
Customer opinion “The most important aim was to deploy virtualisation to decisively enhance the IT performance in the radiology department and to keep new hardware costs to a minimum. The transtec solution has kept its promise and achieved all our goals” |
The Company The patient has been at the heart of the Diakonie-Klinikum Stuttgart for over 150 years. The teaching hospital affi liated to the University of Tübingen looks back on a rich tradition of medical treatment and care of patients. Medicine students can perform the practical part of their studies under the watchful supervision of experienced doctors at the Diakonie-Klinikum. |
The Solution The transtec virtualization solution has been seamlessly integrated into the hospital‘s existing infrastructure. 46 virtual servers are currently hosting on a total of four transtec CCV-V55002U ESX servers. These advanced power virtualization servers ensure easy administration of all running processes; response times have also been cut drastically. The required storage is provided by two scalable transtec SAN4324M-B storage servers with DataCore |
Customer opinion “The transtec virtualization solution enables us to release system resources. We thus achieve maximum fl exibility as we can adapt the infrastructure to new software profi les with very few setting changes. The centralised server management considerably cuts the time previously taken for many processes. The less physical systems required, the greater the energy-saving potential.” |
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The Company The SBW House of Learning (Haus des Lernens) with its headquarters in Romanshorn next to the Lake Constance. Since 1980, this Swiss education provider has been providing high-quality, innovative education to all ages from Kindergarten children to vocational training and examination courses for young adults. The success of the SBW House of Learning has gradually spread beyond Switzerland. The company has also opened international schools in compliance with IBO (International Baccalaureate Organisation) standards. www.sbw.edu |
The Solution The transtec virtualisation solution completely replaces the traditional client server SAN environment. The four extremely high-performance transtec CALLEO 342 servers virtualise all previous servers and clients. Two transtec 3316M-B modular SANs are responsible for the entire storage of the virtualisation landscape which are connected to the network via Fibre Channel. The specifications for the SAN modules each in 3 height units include:
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Customer opinion “In terms of service availability and quality, IT requirements are continually increasing. Under ever-increasing cost pressures, we were looking for a solution that allowed us to invest in the future of our IT infrastructure. The transtec solution convinced us not just because of its technical benefits, they were clear; our ten-year successful business partnership combined with an appreciation of our needs allowed us to communicate on an absolutely high level of understanding for our objectives. The transtec specialists talk our language; we have fast, uncomplicated and constant access to their entire IT know-how” |
The Company IMAGIN Prof. Bochmann AG is an independent and partner-run management consultancy company that has been continually growing over the past 20 years. The company specialises in customer and employee satisfaction for clients based all over the world.In 2008, the company recorded turnover figures of approx. six million Euros and a team of 35 employees. Besides its headquarters in Eppstein, situated in the Taunus region of Germany, the company also boasts subsidiaries in Lucerne (imagin Switzerland) and Lörrach (call centre). |
The Solution Designed and configured by transtec, the database system solution under Oracle 10g2 allows several thousand users based worldwide simultaneous access to a database above and beyond the terabyte limit. Dedicated application servers are used for communicating. transtec CALLEO Servers from the 322 series are used as database and application servers. Firewall and proxy functionality is delivered by CALLEO 321 Servers. The database itself is shared over two PROVIGO 660 RAID systems each connected to the Oracleassisted database server with two fibre-channel connections. Optimum system load balancing and maximum data fl ow is thus guaranteed. |
Customer opinion Christoph Stolz, IT Solutions Manager summarizes: |
The Company The SONN & PARTNER law fi rm, located right at the heart of Vienna, is one of the leading intellectual property attorney offi ces in Austria. The law fi rm looks back on more than 150 years experience and has the longest tradition an Austrian IP fi rm could have. The fundamental philosophy of SONN & PARTNER is to fi nd optimum solutions to the individual problems of our clients in industry and commerce. The law fi rm approaches its internal company objectives with the same, committed fashion. |
The Solution Two powerful transtec CALLEO 342 servers each confi gured with two Quad-core Xeon Processors and 48 GB RAM replace the previous mail, application, database, backup and ERP servers completely. Together with two other transtec PROVIGO 630 storage units with 3 TB gross capacity (SAS) connected with Fibre Channel, they form a high-availability solution for the entire company IT at SONN & PARTNER.Suse Linux Enterprise Server with high-availability extension is used as the operating system. All data is mirrored synchronously between both storage systems in realtime using the DRBD data replication technology. A cluster manager detects any breakdowns with the heartbeat between the two servers thus ensuring high-availability functions such as automatic failover if a fault should arise. |
Customer opinion "We have taken an important step migrating all previous systems onto the new hardware. Our applications and data are more available now than ever before – in future, no department will come to a standstill because of a system breakdown. Virtualization has helped us to achieve a considerably better system distribution. Our maintenance and predicted energy costs are also set to be minimised", |
The Company The ICG, an institute for the IT faculty at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, is the only scientific institution in Austria which addresses both computer vision and computer graphics. The research at ICG is focused on computer graphics, computer and robotics vision in the industry, medical computer vision, object reconstruction and recognition. |
The Solution As various researchers at the ICG work on computer and storage intensive problems, the institute decided to expand its HPC environment. The following transtec systems have been installed since May 2009 as centrally available high-performance computing servers and are successfully in use:
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Customer opinion "With transtec's high-performance systems, we could optimise larger models than previously and the results from simpler models are available faster. transtec has once again proved itself as a competent, flexible and reliable IT partner for this project." |
The Company The Balzerborn hospitals form a highly modern rehabilitation centre for individual diagnostic procedures fitted with all the necessary equipment. Special examinations can be carried out at the nearby University Hospital in Göttingen, a partner of the hospital. For therapeutic treatment, the hospital has a wide range of rooms available for individual and group therapy. The immediate proximity of the hospital to the thermal salt-water baths and the graduation house extends the range of alternative treatments available considerably. A doctors‘ centre is also attached to the hospital divided into various subjects. This guarantees an optimum and comprehensive treatment for patients at the highest level. |
The Solution To implement the hospital‘s improvements, transtec designed a virtual server landscape under XEN with redundant CALLEO 322 high-performance servers with two multi-core CPUs and central ISCSI NAS3100L file server. transtec designed a backup concept to back up hospital data faster and more conveniently and to be available at any time in the event of any crashes. All of the above-mentioned components were integrated in a 19“ chassis with an uninterruptible power supply. The 200 hospital rooms were fitted with energy-saving TFTs as well as 30 workstations with energy-efficient transtec SENYO 610 Mini PCs for hospital personnel and doctors. |
Customer opinion "With transtec as IT specialist, we could have all the services from one source from consultation, installation to the service. transtec proved not only a competent partner but also a reliable one for all cases." |
The Company 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. |
The Solution 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. |
Customer opinion "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." |
The Company The seismic/seismology workgroup at the Freie Universität Berlin researches into the Earth's interior with the help of artificial and natural seismic waves. For this purpose, it developed a 3D imaging and modelling process which it applies in geotechnological and geodynamic projects on different depth scales. Two examples from the field of geotechnology: with the help of this process, a prediction range of up to 100 metres is possible during the build of the new Gotthard Basis Tunnel. Reservoirs up to five kilometres underground can be imaged and characterised. This is important when extracting petroleum and natural gas or for underground CO2 storage. |
The Solution For a long time, the institute had to rely on reserving the necessary computing time and storage capacity either on the University's large mainframe computers or on the Beowulf cluster built by the institute. In the Spring of 2008, transtec installed a cluster with 13 Dual-Quad-core computing nodes and five Terabyte storage capacity. The plan is to expand this to 36 nodes by the start of 2009. With a total of 288 GB RAM, all the workgroup's calculations and simulations should be executed. |
Customer opinion "Our institute needs a reliable system with excellent computing power and a lot of storage capacity. We were impressed by transtec's expertise and the reliability of the hardware." |
The Company 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 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. |
Customer opinion "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." |
The Company The Swiss Internet service-provider Genotec AG was established in 2001. The company currently employs 22 people and supports more than 17,700 shared hosting customers and around 300 server customers in its own PC centres in Allschwil and Basle. According to Netcraft, Genotec is one of the top ten providers in Switzerland and is even among the top three providers in the Windows environment. What’s more, it also boasts the quality mark of Swiss Quality Hosting. |
The Solution transtec supplied tailored consulting and more than 180 individually-configured servers and PCs based on a built-to-order principle to the value of more than 180,000 Euros. CALLEO range 101 and 301 servers as well as SENYO PCs were deployed enabling Genotec’s requirements for dedicated systems and shared hosting to be implemented in an optimum manner. |
Customer opinion "I am convinced that a small or medium-sized company is best looked after by an equally medium-sized company." |
The Company 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 Solution 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. |
Customer opinion "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 Company 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. |
The Solution 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. |
Customer opinion "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." |
The Company 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. |
The Solution 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. |
Customer opinion "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." |
The Company 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. |
The Solution 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. |
Customer opinion "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." |
