Cranberry Township, PA Deploys IP SAN as Cornerstone of New High-Availability IT Upgrade.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in developing and delivering intelligent iSCSI SAN solutions, today announced Cranberry Township Cranberry Township is the name of two townships in Pennsylvania, United States:
Cranberry's new IT environment includes clustered failover servers and dual SANRAD iSCSI V-Switches configured in an active-active failover mode to support data mirroring between two data centers. Virtustor Inc., a SANRAD reseller based in Wall, N.J., designed and installed the high-availability server and storage solution for Cranberry Township. Jon Zygmunt, Chief Information Officer for Cranberry Township, said that transitioning from direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. to an iSCSI SAN met both of his major requirements. He achieved both improved utilization of available storage capacity and the freedom to geographically disperse the servers from the storage to facilitate his high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. goals of deploying clustered servers and mirrored storage across two data centers to ensure application and data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. even with the total loss of one site. "We have a lot of redundant systems and high availability systems where we're using clustering, failover and load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them . The only reason they're close together is the storage has to be readily accessible," said Zygmunt. "The iSCSI SAN gave us a way to geographically disperse storage and systems and maintain the high availability while getting the additional level of business continuity." However, Cranberry Township faced two major roadblocks in achieving their ambitious storage consolidation goals: a limited budget, typical of most municipalities, and modest requirements of a small enterprise that was below the radar of many mainstream storage vendors. Both of those problems were resolved by SANRAD and Virtustor. Virtustor architected an IP storage solution built around SANRAD's innovative iSCSI V-Switch 3000, which provides iSCSI-networked hosts with secure and trusted access to a variety of logical volumes residing on diverse storage systems within a SAN architecture. Requiring no host agents, it operates in the data path of a storage network, independent of servers and storage, providing a highly scalable and easy to use connectivity and management platform for IT professionals responsible for administering small to enterprise class storage resources. Beyond the physical storage interconnects, it was SANRAD's advanced StoragePro(TM) software that proved crucial to Cranberry cranberry, low creeping evergreen bog plant of the genus Oxycoccus of the family Ericaceae (heath family). Cranberries are considered by some botanists to belong to the blueberry genus Vaccinium. Township's success, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bob Olmstead, Chief Technology Officer at Virtustor. StoragePro delivered a broad range of storage services, eliminating the need for host-based storage application deployment while improving performance and data availability. The software enabled the high-availability data mirroring architecture for Cranberry Township with active/active system failover, failback and multi-pathing to ensure continuous data availability for its diverse business applications. StoragePro also supports storage fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. with integrated mirroring, replication, and data migration across Cranberry's redundant storage arrays. "That allowed them to do more of the mirroring and replication at the switch level and move these functions off the hosts, and that really solved the problem," said Olmstead. "If any link went down, everything was handled at the storage level to avoid any replication problems, and having data that is unique in both locations and not being replicated properly." Cranberry Township now has a high-availability scalable IT infrastructure operating across two data centers. "The failover occurs between sites so if you were to come over to my building and drop a grenade grenade (grĭnād`), small bomb filled with explosives, gas, or chemicals and either thrown by hand or shot from a modified rifle or a grenade launcher. Grenades were in use as early as the 15th cent. in my data center, the nodes on the other side would essentially begin running the services," said Zygmunt. "I'm very excited because it's really worked out extremely well for us. We just went live with the majority of the services and it couldn't be more beautiful. I'm certainly pleased with SANRAD. They had a solution that scaled to our level and there really wasn't anyone else out there who did." About SANRAD SANRAD is the leader in IP Storage Networking, enabling hundreds of organizations worldwide to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard IP connectivity with network-based storage services to create IP-based Storage Area Networks. SANRAD IP SANs enable full data availability, effective resource provisioning and complete data protection with excellent price/performance. SANRAD's U.S. sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, Calif., with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel. SANRAD is backed by leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. and is a member of the RAD Group The RAD Group is a collection of independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry. , a family of more than 20 independent companies that together make up one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking. |
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