Inteva to Standardize on Nasuni Unified Storage

Nasuni
Corporation, a provider of enterprise storage to large, distributed
organizations, announced that Inteva
Products, LLC, a multi-billion dollar
global tier-one supplier to major car manufacturers will use Nasuni to
transform its data storage and access infrastructure across the globe.

Nasuni’s storage-infrastructure-as-a-service solution uses an on-site appliance
that integrates public cloud storage as a key component. It will be the primary
storage solution in manufacturing plants, engineering, finance, sales, and
marketing offices. These locations are distributed across 18 countries on four
continents.

Inteva was founded in 2008, when private
investors bought Delphi’s global interiors and closures businesses. Inteva more
than doubled to more than 40 locations in 2011 with the acquisition of
ArvinMeritor’s Body Systems group.

Due to the rapid growth, Dennis Hodges,
Inteva’s CIO, faced a daunting task. Inteva’s IT systems were outdated and
needed to be upgraded, but he also needed to keep IT strategic investment at
less than 1% of revenue. The storage infrastructure represented one of his
biggest challenges. For example, engineering teams in Germany and India needed
to access large CAD files for their work, but transferring files between the
two offices could take six hours. In addition, the backup process at each site
was expensive and ineffective.

"I
knew there had to be a better way to update the storage infrastructure than
buying small SANs and putting them on site," Hodges said. "When I heard about Nasuni and what the
company did, I knew it was right up our alley."

Given his capital limitations, Hodges works
to take care of as many of his infrastructure needs through the operating
budget as possible, so he was attracted to Nasuni’s TB/year subscription
service, in which he pays for usable storage. With direct access to the
data in every office, engineers would finally have fast, local access to the
most recent version of CAD files, eliminating the need to wait hours for
downloads to complete. Backups are built-in with Nasuni, which would eliminate
an operational headache, and all locations could be managed centrally,
which would free up local IT personnel to focus on more initiatives.

Finally, the ability to offer the executive
offices access to sales, marketing and other data via their mobile devices in a
secure, centrally managed way was appealing, as it would enable the 10% of
employees that are mobile to access the files they need with ease.

"At
Inteva, we want to spend our capital on tools and equipment, so as much as
possible, I do everything through operating expenses," Hodges said.
"We went to Nasuni because it
allowed us to provide a unified storage infrastructure to all our locations
around the globe, entirely out of our operating budget. It was exactly the
solution I’d been trying to find for years."

"Manufacturers have complex challenges with
their storage infrastructure," said Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Nasuni.
"They’re often dealing with very
large files, and must support dozens of locations spread across the globe. When
you’re growing like Inteva, both organically and through acquisition, the
increasing number of locations only adds to the complexity. With Nasuni,
manufactures now have a way to provide uniform storage infrastructure in every
office and just as importantly, uniform local access to critical company data –
all without any impact to the capital budget."