TWICE THE POWERfor Construction Company with StoneFly TwinHCI Systems

C U S T O M E R S U C C E S S S T O R Y
TWICE THE POWER
for Construction Company with StoneFly TwinHCI Systems
THE
CHALLENGES
Inadequate
Infrastructure
Limited IT Staff
Data Availability
Preventing Loss of
Mission-Critical Data
THE CHALLENGES
With three hosts that provided file service, a windows server for the
materials department, and a backup system, their infrastructure
had grown and become fault-prone. The organization had already
experienced five incidents with multiple hardware failures that
caused data and VM losses. In addition to hardware failure, the
company had limited staff to cater to every component (i.e.
network, storage and compute), in turn adding to the problem.
The client’s IT Director, Kyle, said, “Business was booming but so
was our data. Our projects needed a reliable infrastructure with
minimized attention and ours had reached the end of its life”.
THE SOLUTION
After a detailed discussion with the client, StoneFly storage experts
suggested the TwinHCI systems.
The TwinHCI system is a reliable and cost-effective high availability
dual-node hyperconverged solution with automated failover and
failback. For the client, the solution simplified administrative needs,
delivered high availability that didn’t need dedicated IT staff to
manage, maintain, and orchestrate it.
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THE RESULTS
The solution helped the client to deploy an infrastructure that
ensured business continuity and high availability with minimum IT
staff intervention and no single point-of-failure. The highly
scalable and simplified setup could easily be handled by a single
member of the staff. Additionally, the TwinHCI enabled the client to
utilize their compute and storage resources to its full capacity with
significantly reduced costs.
Moreover, the centralized management platform exterminated
many management complexities and provided a stress-free
working environment for the staff.
Kyle finished ”With this solution, we don’t have to worry about
hardware failure anymore and the built-in security and
optimization features really simplify our job. Thank you, StoneFly, for
going over and beyond our call”.
ON-GOING VALUE
Coupled with the high availability and affordability of the TwinHCI,
the construction company also got more bang for their buck in the
form of the following benefits:
SUPERIOR DATA CONTROL & MANAGEMENT
WITH FEATURE-PACKED INFRASTRUCTURE
In order to put data owners in complete control of their data, the
TwinHCI come preconfigured with a storage OS (SCVM) that
delivers advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities. The SCVM
dashboard feature real-time graphical performance reporting of
metrics such as CPU usage, storage, network consumption, and
more.
HIGHLY SCALABLE &
FUTURE-PROOF
INFRASTRUCTURE
Similar to other StoneFly storage
solutions, the TwinHCI systems
boast the ability to scale out
without limits.
In fact, the TwinHCI are dually
scalable. That means that users
can choose to either scale
out or scale up. In order to scale
out, users can add more
appliance nodes; consequently
increasing the performance and
storage capacity in multiples.
To scale up, users can add
hundreds of storage drives using
storage expansion units (EBODs)
and deploy petabyte-level high
availability HCI systems.
In other words, the construction
company built a future-proof
infrastructure that can scale
effortlessly as their data grows.
Additionally, SCVM delivers an array of data protection and storage
optimization features coupled with advanced data services to
compliment the high availability HCI solution and
enhance user experience.
Standard SCVM data protection features include: air-gap volumes,
Write-Once Read-Many repositories, Backup Vault, advanced
encryption, immutable snapshots, threat scan, and more.
Storage optimization features include deduplication for NAS, iSCSI &
S3 volumes, thin provisioning, FlashCache SSD caching, and more.
Advanced data services include sync & async replication, NAS, SAN,
& S3 storage provisioning, and more.
To get the complete list of SCVM features, contact StoneFly sales.
With the advanced reporting, built-in data protection, storage
optimization and advanced data services the construction
company enjoys powerful hyperconverged capabilities and
seamlessly manages their storage infrastructure.
CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT
With the built-in storage OS, the construction company manages
their complete infrastructure from a centralized management GUI
that runs on standard browsers. The interface provides access to
administrative and management features for the entire
infrastructure.

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About StoneFly, Inc.
StoneFly, Inc., headquartered in California,
was founded to deliver upon the vision of
simple and affordable storage optimization
and disaster recovery protection through IP
SAN solutions.
G E T T H E C O M P E T I T I V E E D G E
Y O U R O R G A N I Z A T I O N N E E D S
W I T H S T O N E F L Y T W I N H C I
S Y S T E M S
StoneFly is a leading manufacturer of highperformance
Network Attached Storage
(NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN) –
iSCSI systems, Hyperconverged systems,
and RAID systems.StoneFly’s range of
enterprise products also includes cloud
storage solutions, cloud storage gateway
solutions, and data migration services for
enterprise workloads.
+1 510 265-1616
sales@stonefly.com
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