References: Virtualisation
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servers and domain controllers and fully replaces the previous heterogeneous server infrastructure comprising eleven outdated individual servers.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 arvato services Switzerland is a subsidiary of arvato AG, an international media and communications service provider and part of the global Bertelsmann network. More than 30,000 employees offer their competencies and expertise to a unique international network and enable arvato services to best serve markets that orient themselves on a global scale but still retain local character. |
The Solution The transtec virtualisation solution is principally based on the existing IT landscape of arvato services; the configuration was merely subject to a structural upgrade in order to expand the infrastructure‘s computing power, RAM and storage capacity. |
Customer opinion “transtec is a competent and reliable partner who supports us in realising our ideas and the technical viability of our services. We can give the confidence and trust placed in our company back to our customers in the form of high-quality package solutions” |
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 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 TetraTec Instruments develops flexible measurement systems for measuring the pressure, flow and temperature of gases. The SMB from Steinenbronn in the South West of Germany provides services in the field of calibration in its own laboratory as well as externally and employs 22 workers. The aim of the IT restructure was to increase server stability and service reliability as well as providing new resources for test environments faster. The implementation of a central and convenient system management concept cuts running costs. |
The Solution TetraTec opted for a virtualisation solution from transtec. Following intensive consultation meetings with transtec, a VMware active/passive system with a redundant, external iSCSI SAN storage system was installed at TetraTec Instruments. |
Customer opinion “To fully utilise the benefits of virtualisation, system administrators must have specific understanding. transtec convinced us of their expertise especially due to the consultation and services they provided. There is always a contact person ready to deal with any problems. Due to the successful collaboration with transtec, TetraTec has already purchased more workstation PCs from transtec and we will work with transtec again in the future.“ |
The Company 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 Solution 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. |
Customer opinion "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." |
The Company The Merz company was founded in 1900 by Mr. Carl Merz in Hechingen, located in the North-West of Germany. It initially started life as a mechanical workshop offering services and repairs for SINGER sewing machines and bicycles. Shortly after the foundation Merz started building circular loop wheel machines.After the Second World War Merz started to produce double-cylinder circular knitting machines for the production of socks. The very first Merz double-cylinder circular knitting machine was delivered in 1948. At the beginning of the fifties a circular knitting machine for the production of nylon stockings was developed. At the beginning of the sixties the company moved to the Haigerlocher Straße, Hechingen, Germany which today still is the company‘ s site. From 1970, the company increasingly specialized in the development and manufacturing of circular knitting machines for the production of medical stockings and compression articles and with 75 employees is today the leader in this market segment worldwide. |
The Solution In advance of planning, transtec carried out a comprehensive analysis of its existing IT environment and developed strategies for a future-oriented IT infrastructure. transtec was committed to designing an IT system that combined easy management with the required functions and thus developed the following concept:
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Customer opinion "The virtual server environment allows test systems to be installed in a matter of no time without any difficulty as sufficient system performance and storage capacity are available. We would be pleased to work with transtec again in the future as the system specifications and deadlines promised were always kept." |
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." |
