Micro Matic Deploying Gridstore NAS

Gridstore, Inc.
announced that Micro Matic, supplier delivery of draught beer equipment, has optimized
their growing storage infrastructure and reduced storage sprawl by deploying
Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution.

With Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS
solution Micro Matic  has a completely disk-based backup process which has
streamlined the company’s data protection processes while eliminating the high
cost and risk associated with tape.

Micro Matic is a supplier of draught beer equipment in over 120 countries
throughout the world. It serves the U.S. market through four strategically
located distribution centers in west, central, southeast and northeast
locations. These centers provide just-in-time delivery as a daily achievement.
The company is committed to continually seek better ways to deliver quality
draught beer and customer service.

Faced with the challenge of managing over 5TB of data sprawled over multiple
data centers in California and Florida, Micro Matic
needed to optimize its storage operations. Video training files, engineering
drawings and user desktop files were rapidly consuming incrementally growing
volumes of storage capacity.

"We quickly found ourselves managing
over 5TB of data and our backup and restore process from tape placed us at
risk," said Eddie Palmer, system administrator, Micro Matic. "NAS was a practical approach to solving the
problem, but traditional NAS would have been too expensive and would have
continued to perpetuate our storage sprawl problem. We wanted to be proactive
so that we could be prepared for our future growth and wanted to be able to
expand as needed without having to overprovision our storage."

That’s when Micro Matic discovered Gridstore. With the Gridstore scale-out NAS
solution, the beverage equipment company is able to combine the simplicity,
convenience and affordability of NAS with the scalability, performance and
reliability of enterprise-class storage. As a result, the company can achieve a NAS storage grid that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single
points of failure while benefiting from a next-generation storage offering at
half the cost of standalone NAS solutions.

"With Gridstore it was literally
‘set it and forget it,‘" said Palmer. "Backups just work and there is no worry about tapes. It works
completely with our existing infrastructure, except now we are completely
disk-based for our backups which saves us both time and money."

Micro Matic has seen
the following benefits
as a result of deploying Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS:

• Eliminated costly physical tape
  environment to a single disk-based backup operation, removing single points of
  failure across its remote sites.
• NAS
  storage grid that leverages parallel I/O to eliminate performance bottlenecks
  and scales to meet the growing demands of backup processes from multiple server
  environments.
• NonStop
  reliability – protection that goes beyond RAID protection of 1 or 2 disks.
  Micro Matic’s backup target can suffer multiple node failures without impacting
  backup processes or the availability of data. Gridstore makes it easy to
  recover from failed hardware by simply attaching a new storage node to the
  network.
• Incremental
  capacity that can be added on a pay-as-you-grow basis eliminates the need to
  overprovision storage resources and ensures backups never fail due to capacity
  limitations.

"Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS is an
ideal fit for organizations like Micro Matic that need to unify their
distributed backup operations to eliminate risk and ensure a comprehensive data
protection and business continuity process that allows them to simply set it
and forget it," said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. "Our customers can take advantage of a simple
building block approach to storage that offers significantly better
performance, reliability and scaling. It’s the ideal solution for any company
looking to achieve greater storage flexibility at the industry’s most
aggressive price points."