Nor Revealed Leading Car Manufacturer Adopts Infortrend Storage

Infortrend Technology, Inc. modernized IT infrastructure of world’s leading car manufacturer with EonStor GS enterprise unified storage for file storage and server backup application.

The solution provided ease of management with stable performance and data protection, which benefited to overall productive performance of the company.  

The automaker had a legacy storage system, which was used by employees from different departments and required daily full server backup. IT department was constantly receiving complaints from employees that the existing file server didn’t provide fast enough access, especially to large files during peak hours. Full server backup also took long hours – typically, it was fulfilled overnight or even longer, overlapping with production hours, which negatively affected company’s productivity.

Their system integrator, IO Datamovers (Asia) Sdn Bhd, understood the customer’s requirements and found EonStor GS is suitable to provide a smooth access to enterprise data, quick backup, and data protection.

“EonStor GS provides both high performance and availability to perfectly solve the pain points of the enterprise, and ideally fits for general purpose applications, such as enterprise file sharing and backup/archiving,” advised Frank Lee, senior director of product planning.

For the regional office and the factory, IO Datamovers deployed 2 systems of enterprise unified storage EonStor GS 1000, providing 80TB total capacity. GS solved the main issue of slow access to files and improved performance of server’s full backup from hours to within minutes. At least 50% faster file access contributes to improving employees’ productivity. For marketing team, it helps with meeting deadlines in creating advertisement materials, for drawing and design professionals – with sharing files with related users on production site/office, while making sure company’s know-how is protected with properly structured user authentication and file access rights.

“Infortrend storage dramatically improved file access performance and reduced server backup time to help workers of the famous car manufacturing company increase productivity output and, hence, gain higher profits,” said Kelv, sales director, IO Datamovers.