The "Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze" (the
Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, MEF) located in Rome deployed
DataCore's SANsymphony-V solution to improve productivity and modernize its
mission-critical IT infrastructure. The DataCore software-defined storage
platform has been implemented to centralize storage management and improve the
utilization across a wide range of storage hardware systems and devices from
different vendors including EMC and HP. DataCore consolidates and simplifies
the provisioning of storage resources, significantly accelerates performance and
adds high availability and a new level of flexibility to the existing mix as
well as to future storage additions.
"We chose DataCore because we wanted a solution that
would allow MEF to modernize and virtualize our storage and IT infrastructure
without being locked- in to specific hardware vendors or technologies. This
gives us flexibility, scalability and freedom in our choice. SANsymphony-V
allows us to use the most appropriate and innovative offerings on the market
and makes it easy if needed to grow or adapt our environment to meet future
requirements. DataCore not only reduces our storage related costs by
consolidating management, it enables us to buy less expensive hardware and it
also enables us to protect our existing investments. Moreover, the software-defined
layer in our infrastructure gives us flexibility to optimize whatever we use
and puts us back in control to shop storage for the best value to allow us to
cost-effectively deal with growth," comments the information systems
manager at MEF.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance, also known by the
acronym MEF, is one of the most important and influential ministries within the
Italian Government. It is the executive body responsible for economic,
financial and budget policy. The organization manages the planning of public
investments, coordinates public expenditures and verifies its trends, revenue
policies and the overall tax system. The MEF operates the State's public land
and heritage, land register and customs; it plans, coordinates and verifies
operations to foster economic, local and sectorial development, and is
responsible for setting out cohesive policies, processes and the requirements
pertaining to the public budget.
As part of the project to optimize and consolidate IT data
centers, MEF selected DataCore's software-defined storage solution with the
primary objective of preserving their existing and very diverse set of storage
investments made over many years - comprising of a range of systems from EMC
VMax and EMC Centera to HP EVAs. In addition, it was critical for MEF to
streamline and centralize management in order to gain productivity and to
provision highly available storage capacity when needed, where needed quickly
within minutes.
The DataCore SANsymphony-V software is deployed on four
standard x86 server platforms, providing redundancy and data protection
together with centralized management of over 200TB of storage across multiple
EMC VMax, EMC Centera and HP EVA systems. MEF will also benefit from the
addition of high-end advanced storage features including thin provisioning,
metro-wide mirroring, high-speed adaptive caching, replication and
auto-tiering, all of which can be applied to their existing and future storage
investments.
Article in DataCenter Dynamics
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