RVM Has Deployed BlueArc Titan 2500

BlueArc Corporation announced that electronic discovery provider
RVM, Inc. has deployed a Titan 2500 storage solution at the center of
its storage infrastructure for its portfolio of hosted litigation
support services. With high throughput and massive scalability for
expansion through multiple petabytes, the BlueArc solution is at the
core of RVM’s recent, major technology infrastructure upgrade.

RVM offers full-service document management tailored to
litigation support, electronic discovery, corporate document services
and technology solutions, for law firms and corporations in the greater
New York City and Chicago areas. RVM’s proprietary e-discovery software
takes potential electronic evidence and runs extremely
input/output-intense operations against it-including native processing,
high-speed data culling and extremely enhanced rendering that present
definitive challenges for most storage systems. As clients also contend
with the exponential growth of data and federally mandated deadlines
for compliance with requests for evidence, RVM replaced its direct
attached storage infrastructure with a BlueArc Titan 2500 system that
supports RVM’s e-discovery software; Web-based workflow for secure
review of discovered documents; and services such as scanning and
printing.

"Speed and uptime are absolutely essential for our staff and
our clients, and our data demand was well beyond the capacity of the
fastest direct attached storage systems we could purchase," said
Geoffrey Sherman, associate director of technology, RVM. "Titan’s raw
speed and ringing endorsements from other data-intensive businesses,
including e-discovery firms like ours, helped us make the right choice.
Our BlueArc system fits well with our designs for a highly redundant
data center architecture, and while the facility has ample cooling and
power, Titan is proving to be far more energy-efficient than other
solutions we had initially considered."

RVM implemented the BlueArc solution in conjunction with
migration to an extremely robust and highly redundant, high-performance
collocation facility. By selecting the Titan 2500 model, RVM was able
to take advantage of redundant, aggregated 10-gigabit fiber lines and
performance enabling unsurpassed speed, as well as fault tolerance in
strenuous processing requests for millions of files and folders varying
drastically in size. RVM tapped Titan’s ISCSI protocol support for
several application servers, centralizing mission-critical storage
requirements. Today, RVM’s BlueArc system is achieving up to 40,000
input/output operations per second (IOPS) within a low disk spindle
count. The distinctive hardware-based architecture of the BlueArc Titan
series can continue to scale up to 2 petabytes of data and hundreds of
thousands of input/output operations per second.

In addition to BlueArc Titan 2500, RVM is using BlueArc’s
Incremental Data Replication (IDR) software to replicate data from the
high-speed fibre channel tier of its storage infrastructure to a higher
capacity SATA tier. According to Sherman, the BlueArc system is
presently replicating approximately 0.75 terabytes of data per hour,
with no noticeable decrease in performance. With scheduled, automated,
backups that use snapshots as a basis for replication, RVM gains
streamlined administration and assurance that even files in use are
replicated.

BlueArc Corporation

RVM, Inc.