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Case Studies | Government
INDUSRTY OVERVIEW: Local Government
SANs and the City - Cities and Towns Around the Globe Optimize Storage with DataCore
Storage virtualization in local governments worldwide is booming. As governments around the globe feel the economic pinch, many are realizing the benefits of storage virtualization - risk avoidance, productivity increases, cost containment, investment protection, and more.
Customers include: Orange County Califronia (US), City of Elk Grove, CA (US), City of Atascadero, CA (US), City of Saratoga Springs, NY (US), Town of Branford, CT (US), City of Newport News, VA (US), City Of Inverness, FL (US), Butte County, CA (US), City of Norfolk, VA (US), City of Carmel, IN (US), Greven (Germany), Baden Baden (Germany), Georgsmarienhütte (Germany), Ashfield District Council (UK), Kingston City Council (Australia), Gangjin Province (Korea), Shepway District Council (UK), DaeGu City (Korea), Taipei (Taiwan) and many more.
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Bournemouth Borough Council
Bournemouth Borough Council provides all local government services to the community of Bournemouth, a popular destination situated on the south coast of England. Home to some 160,000 residents, Bournemouth's economy is characterised by its diverse and dynamic service sector, which has seen rapid development over the past twenty years. The Council prides itself in providing the right level of IT infrastructure required to deliver its services reliably, efficiently and cost effectively.
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City of Atascadero
The City of Atascadero, California, is a city of 28,000 residents about 15 miles from the Pacific coasr. Over the course of one weekend, the City of Atascadero went from physical servers and firect-attached storage to a virtualized environment, including a SAN.
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City of Heidelberg
City of Heidelberg, a large local municipal administration serving a community of more than 139,000 residents, and a requirement of servicing 1200 clients with 19 centralized servers, recognized a need to address the issues of managing storage resource allocation.
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City of Inverness
The City of Inverness in Citrus County, Florida, has selected DataCore’s SANmelody storage virtualization solution to manage and protect their data center. With SANmelody, not only was the City of Inverness able to use existing hardware, it was able to get twice as much use out of its existing storage space as well as adding a new level of business continuity protection and scalability for the future, which the city did not previously have.
Case Study [PDF] (2008)
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Kingston City Council
Kingston City Council administers essential government services to thousands of residents and businesses in a large and growing region. Local law enforcement, rate collection and business registration are but a few of the services governed and controlled by the Kingston City Council. More important is the management of local aged and healthcare services. This responsibility requires the IT environment to adhere to stringent service level agreements, with the possible consequences of a failure being dire.
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City Administration of Mannheim
The University City of Mannheim is the cultural and economic centre of the Rhein/Neckar triangle region in Germany and with a population of 320,000 is the second largest city in Baden-Württemberg. The City Administration of Mannheim regards itself as a modern service company acting on the basis of economic criteria such as meeting customer requirements and quality of service. The comprehensive range of information technology services and the necessity of providing highly available data 24 hours a day led to increased data growth and increased storage requirements.
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County of Orange, CA
The Orange County Data Center (OCDC) hosts many different servers – both virtual and physical – using a combination of VMware and physical hosts that support other outlying agencies within the County of Orange. Before DataCore was added to virtualize, consolidate and mange the SANs, OCDC had two HP Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVAs) storing their data and they had just finished purchasing their third EVA – supporting their third separate storage area network.
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Homeland Security - Loyola Enterprises
"In these complex Homeland Defense and Homeland Security simultation exercises with national security impact, it is crucial that the underlying infrastructure is built using the fastest mission critical storage systems available."
Loyola Enterprises was incorporated in 1991 in Virginia and provides engineering and technical services contracts with private sector companies, as well as city, state, and federal governments.
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The Chief Finance Office in Koblenz, Germany
The Chief Finance Office in Koblenz, Germany, oversees 26 revenue offices in the federal state of Rheinland-
Pfalz.
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Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) Okinawa
The military has programs specifically dedicated to Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR). MCCS is the MWR equivalent for the Marine Corps. In the Okinawa area, the predominant presence in terms of US Military service members is the Marine Corps. However, there is also a US Air Force presence, a US Army presence as well as the US Navy. MCCS is open to support all the service members and their families.
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USA - Town of Fishers
The town of Fishers is a fast growing suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Thane Morgan, director of information technology for the town of Fishers, had decided from the start to go with virtualization. He first looked at hardware solutions and solutions like LeftHand NetWorks but did not like being locked into the vendor’s hardware requirements. "The future requires flexibility. Being dependent on their control of hardware drives my cost up and more importantly reduces my flexibility," he said. So Morgan bought SANmelody software from DataCore. "With the alternatives, for the same amount of money, I would have had to halve the capacity and be bound to the vendor’s hardware."
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