Nexenta Booked For Storage Infrastructure at Rotterdam Library
Library chooses Nexenta for future proof OpenStorage solution
Almere, March 28, 2013 — Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in Software-defined Storage, today announced that the Rotterdam Library has upgraded its storage environment to an OpenStorage solution based on NexentaStor. By moving from a legacy storage infrastructure to Nexenta, the library has deployed a sustainable, future proof solution that provides optimised cost efficiencies and scalability.
Attracting 3.4 million annual visitors and with over 100.000 members, the Library is the most visited cultural institution in Rotterdam. Managing the 3 million books and other media items being loaned out every year, the library continuously faces the challenges of meeting visitor expectations and managing and storing the millions of loan transactions effectively. With public budgets shrinking, the IT department had to look for a storage solution that would lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and provide the flexibility to support future growth of the library’s storage capacity.
To provide sufficient storage capacity to manage the visitor’s 300 VDI terminals, 100 VDI’s setup for internal use, all of the 100 internal PCs, and multiple databases for the library’s loan system, Nexenta partner Rhodix designed and implemented a customer centric storage solution offering High Availability and Cluster Functionality. IT specialist Rhodix combined NexentaStor, Nexenta HA Cluster plug-in software on Dell PowerVault MD3060e storage systems and Dell PowerEdge R720 Servers, and created a 30 TB storage solution. The new infrastructure can be easily expanded to meet the library's future storage needs.
Pascal Ringens, Technical Manager at Rhodix said, “Using Nexenta is a delight. The solutions perfectly match the storage needs of our customers in the local government, health-care and industry segments by offering the degrees of freedom needed to meet increasingly varying and complex customer demands.”
Sjaak Westdijk, Infrastructure Specialist at Rotterdam Library, said: "Picking Nexenta will help expand and improve all of our services to our customers, to levels unattainable with competing storage solutions, and certainly not at this competitive price level. With the new Sofware-defined-Storage environment from Nexenta we have stayed within the tight IT budget but have installed a sustainable, enterprise feature rich, storage solution for many years to come."
Fabian Nowee, Regional Sales Manager Benelux at Nexenta, concludes: “The Rotterdam Library is a great example of how our solutions can really impact the public sector in the Netherlands and beyond. With pressure on IT budgets, but rapidly growing storage needs, Nexenta offers an attractive proposition to all industries including the government sector because it can scale competitively. By partnering with technology vendors like Dell and key partners like Rhodix, we have the ability to help many organisations to remain customer-centric and competitive in this challenging economy.”
About Rhodix
With offices in Veldhoven and Amstelveen, the Netherlands, Rhodix provides IT infrastructure and managed services to SME's and public sector institutions. Taking customer demand to heart we strive to exceed expectations by providing extraordinary quality in IT solutions, delivery and management thereof. Nexenta helps us meet these objectives by providing open, scalable and robust software solutions designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility to us and our customers. Please call us at +31 40 2904 702 to experience how we can deploy Nexenta to meet your storage challenges.
About Nexenta Systems:
Nexenta Systems is the world leader in Software-defined Storage. Its flagship software platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology and running on a broad choice of industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at significantly less cost than legacy systems.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found at www.nexenta.com or by calling (855) 639 3682. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: http://www.nexenta.com/partners
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