ASA Automotive Systems Selecting Winchester Systems

Winchester Systems Inc. deployed a solution at ASA Automotive Systems LLC, a
supplier of licensed and hosted software solutions for automotive retailers and
wholesalers.

The solution provides a virtualized hosted environment for their automotive
applications that delivers Software as a Service (SaaS) to ASA clients with
the performance and reliability needed to meet demanding SLAs.

"ASA partnered with
Winchester Systems to provide storage solutions for their hosting services
because it offers a scalable architecture, energy-efficient design, and BC with
hardware based snapshots, mirroring and FlashD2D automated disk-to-disk backup,"
said Scott Hopkins, VP of operations for ASA Automotive Systems. "By offering ‘Purpose-Built’ solutions,
Winchester Systems products have consistently yielded better performance and
more reliable enterprise data storage and server solutions. They are easier to
understand and manage which helps us ensure that every ASA customer receives
the performance and availability that it deserves."

Historically, ASA hosting services operated on servers that each
supported a single OS and a single application dedicated to individual
customers. Recently, the company made the decision to move to virtualization
technology that makes it possible to run multiple virtual machines on a single
physical host. ASA used the VMware virtualization platform for building ASA’s private cloud. ASA no longer assigns servers, storage, or
network bandwidth permanently to each customer. Instead, its hardware resources
are dynamically allocated when and where they’re needed within its private
cloud.

"We were looking to
acquire a storage subsystem that provides high performance as well as
reliability and redundancy in order to prevent our customers from experiencing
delays and ensure that our applications are always available to support their
business needs," Hopkins said. "We looked at Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Winchester Systems and selected
Winchester Systems because it provides leading-edge performance and reliability
at an affordable price. We also liked the fact that Winchester Systems provides
flexibility to expand capacity as we move forward and grow in the future.
Finally, I had worked with Winchester Systems in the past so I already knew
their support is second to none."

"Our new computing and
storage infrastructure makes it possible for us to fulfill demanding SLAs that will enable our customers to operate their
businesses efficiently and most importantly reliably for many years to come with
the ability to grow their data as required,"
Hopkins said. "Our storage system
has played the key role in the creation of a robust, reliable shared
environment where multiple customers share the resources to run our
applications. We monitor the storage system performance continuously and we
solicit feedback from our customers. Its performance over the past 18 months
has been excellent."