Alfred McAlpine Selects StoreAge as a Key Component of Disaster Recovery Strategy; StoreAge SVM Improves Backup and Disaster Recovery Capabilities.LONDON -- StoreAge Networking Technologies, the leading provider of split-path SAN storage management and advanced multi-tiered, data protection solutions, today announced that Alfred McAlpine Alfred McAlpine plc is a British construction firm headquartered in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It is a major road builder, and has constructed over 10% of Britain's motorways, including the M6 Toll (as part of the has completed its initial disaster recovery architecture by deploying StoreAge SVM SVM Support Vector Machines SVM School of Veterinary Medicine SVM Solaris Volume Manager SVM Space Vector Modulation SVM Storage Virtualization Manager (StoreAge) SVM Service Module (also abbreviated as S/M) (TM) technology into its SAN environment. Alfred McAlpine is one of the U.K.'s leading support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services organisations. The new SAN implementation was designed and installed by Alfred McAlpine's IT Services business who engaged with their value add distributor Zycko. Zycko is StoreAge's Master Distributor for UK, Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. and East Europe. Due to business growth and acquisitions, the IT infrastructure at Alfred McAlpine (www.alfredmcalpineplc.com) has expanded considerably during the past two years. Providing a diverse range of services to the built environment, Alfred McAlpine also recognized the need to embrace new technology and introduce a disaster recovery and backup solution to protect its assets. The company had a number of sites, each containing its own IT deployment, but no provision for performing inter-site backups. The company was concerned that the existing storage environment was not robust enough to cope with the increased number of users and would impact their ability to access data in the long term. They were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a solution that would meet their current IT requirements and enable future growth while using lower-cost storage for holding backup data. StoreAge SVM was selected because it proved to be the most functional SAN management and disaster recovery solution. The multiMirror product was used for mirroring data between multiple sites from high-end EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. arrays at the source site, to mid-range Dot Hill arrays at the destination site. Furthermore, the use of StoreAge's multiView product provided enhanced backup processes and enabled the IT management team to achieve improved Recovery Point objectives (RPOs). The performance of the new StoreAge SAN solution has provided a noticeable improvement in the time required to run Axapta CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. reports. Alfred McAlpine reports that some of the applications have seen a 300% performance increase. The new system offers Alfred McAlpine greater flexibility and reduced risk through newer and more stable technology backed by the robust design that removes single-points-of-failure from the SAN infrastructure. Rob Hodgkiss, project manager team leader, Alfred McAlpine, said, "StoreAge and Zycko have provided a powerful, yet flexible solution that has delivered immediate performance and cost benefits to the business. The solution has become a catalyst for the business to look at further opportunities to leverage technology for business benefits." Nigel Lambert Nigel Lambert (born 1944) was a narrator in the first series of the BBC programme Look Around You in 2002. In the 1980s he worked extensively as a voice actor and appeared in television commercials. , channels director at Zycko, added, "we are privileged to meet the new stringent IT demands presented by Alfred McAlpine. Following this successful deployment we are already working on migrating the HR and payroll systems to virtualized storage". Dani Naor, vice president of business development at StoreAge, said, "we are proud that SVM was selected by this important customer for their disaster recovery solution. The unique cost effective capability to mirror between different sites in a heterogeneous storage environment is making SVM the solution of choice to many leading organisations worldwide." About Alfred McAlpine Alfred McAlpine is a business of around 9,000 people that aims to make a difference to the UK's built environment. The organisation helps to create and maintain the country's transport and utilities infrastructure, as well as help to manage the facilities and systems that underpin the success of many of the UK's organisations. One of Alfred McAlpine's fastest growing business elements is the Business Services operation. Business Services is now one of the leading players in the UK market for outsourced facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. , IT services and workplace consultancy services. Relied upon by many of the UK's leading organisations, it works alongside blue chip businesses, major public bodies and specialist companies in markets such as financial and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , healthcare, public sector, technology and infrastructure. Its job is to allow businesses to concentrate on their core objectives through outsourcing a wide range of non-core, yet critical workplace related services. About Zycko Zycko is a value-add distributor of best of breed IT infrastructure solutions - from corporate networks to open-system storage architectures to unified communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. - through a channel of resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Zycko is privately held and has been profitable since inception in 2000, when the company's original charter was to market data networking accessories to resellers as a wholesale distributor. Zycko now employs over 150 staff, serving over 3000 resellers around the world from six offices on three continents. The company enjoys an annual turnover of more than $100m. Zycko's provision of cost-effective IT products and logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet is supported by vital industry services such as technical support, custom configuration, training and marketing support. These combined factors make Zycko the channel partner of choice. About StoreAge Networking Technologies StoreAge Networking Technologies is the leading provider of split-path storage management solutions that centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. and simplify storage network administration. StoreAge network-based solutions provide a uniform, SAN-wide method for provisioning storage, ensuring business continuity, enabling cost-effective disaster recovery, and centrally managing cross-platform, multi-vendor storage environments. StoreAge's award-winning product, SVM(TM) (Storage Virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. Manager), has been successfully deployed worldwide, gaining exceptional success in managing storage in a wide variety of application environments including databases, OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , e-mail, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , CRM, video, and many others. StoreAge offers worldwide sales, support, and service, with principal offices in Irvine, CA and Nesher, Israel. For additional information, visit the company website at www.StoreAge.com or contact the company at info@StoreAge.com. SVM, multiView, multiCopy, multiMigrate, multiMirror and SVM App-Pack are service marks of StoreAge Networking Technology. All brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Product may be shown with optional modules. The information contained in this document, is subject to change without notice. |
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