Storage integration solution in a data center environment
Various types of information are flooding your company. You may be suffering from cumbersome tasks and associated high costs in data management just because information is distributed. For such problems, NEC Storage can offer solutions such as presented in this case example.
Problems prior to implementation
It is desired to establish a centralized authentication system for all the members of the company (app. 30,000 employees) at the data center for providing secure services.
The aim is to support knowledge creation by concentrating information into this data center, for providing information to all the sites distributed nationwide. It is targeted to build a highly reliable system and also to reduce management costs.
Solutions and effects
- Centralized authentication management for all the employees is performed by utilizing Windows 2000 Active Directory. Secure services are offered by Windows authentication.
- About 30 Express 5800 systems are put in cluster configuration. An integrated storage environment for these units is established by an NEC Storage S4000 series system, which is a high-end disk array system.
- By utilizing NEC Storage DynamicDataReplication, data backup operations can be performed without affecting operational services.
- Core functions are assured to have 99.99% availability by applying HA (High Availability) services. Furthermore, the storage integration solution realizes reduction of operational costs.
