EQUALLOGIC SAN – Entire case study available upon request
THE CHALLENGE: UPGRADE STORAGE FOR STEADY AND SIGNIFICANT
COMPANY GROWTH
“EqualLogic’s cost-effective, plug-and-play storage solution met
our scalability and cost requirements, and continues to protect
our mission critical operations as we multiply in size.”
– ZOOTS, Vice President of IT,
Dean Patterson
With its extensive growth, which includes the addition of new
stores, employees, customers, road maps, and all accompanying
data, ZOOTS needed a scalable SAN that would be
easy to use for its present and future employees. The new
SAN had to protect ZOOTS’ mission-critical application, an
all-in-one, custom-built application based on Microsoft SQL
server. Other business applications include Great Plains
Financial, Microsoft Exchange Server, ADP payroll software
and a Pilot Decision financial analysis database.
THE SOLUTION: MIGRATE FROM FIBRE CHANNEL TO
iSCSI TECHNOLOGY
iSCSI SAN, ZOOTS worked with an EqualLogic reseller to
deploy an EqualLogic PS100E with 3.5 terabytes of raw
capacity as the fundamental storage infrastructure. From the
start, EqualLogic delivered on its promises, and ZOOTS
appreciated that the time EqualLogic said it would take to set
up and run was entirely accurate. The IT department did not
even need to look at manual, and installation required zero
upfront training.
RESELLER RELATIONSHIP
After comparing the Fibre Channel solutions to EqualLogic’s
iSCSI SAN, ZOOTS worked with reseller and EqualLogic
partner Expert Server Group to deploy an EqualLogic PS100E
with 3.5 terabytes of raw capacity as the fundamental
storage infrastructure.
