February 2008
IBM announced that Georgia's Gwinnett County is using a virtualized information infrastructure that is enabling them to reduce overall storage costs, respond quicker to increased storage needs, and dramatically improve the speed of data migration processes by up to four times.
Gwinnett County stores critical tax information and government records on their systems, which have recently become accessible to the public online. Storage is needed 24 hours a day so negotiating outage windows with internal users can be painful and with no visibility into scheduled downtime, users outside the organization expect information to be available on demand, as needed. With a continuous increase in traffic to the Web site and new applications available online, it became crucial for Gwinnett County to have a reliable information infrastructure that targeted zero downtime, strong data protection, easy migration and that can operate around the clock.
"Incorporating virtualization into our storage infrastructure was exactly what we needed," said Phillip Wilson, Gwinnett County contract IT architect. "If someone needs more storage, I simply open the SAN Volume Controller console and increase their storage allocation. Storage management with the IBM SAN Volume Controller is a storage administrator's dream come true."
Knowing their needs had shifted towards a more flexible solution, Gwinnett County turned to IBM and IBM Business Partner Cpak to provide a consistent and dependable information infrastructure that is easily upgraded with no disruption to applications. Gwinnett County implemented the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) as the keystone of their storage virtualization environment, along with the IBM System Storage DS4800 and DS4700 disk arrays as the backbone of their tiered storage infrastructure. Both Intel architecture-based servers and IBM System p 570 and System p 690 servers, which host the county's SAP applications, were attached to the virtualized information infrastructure.
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