Harnessing High-Speed Storage for Efficient IT Forensic Services

SUMMARY

IT Forensic Services Provider:one of the Leading Corporate Investigations Firm in Switzerland

This client is a leading provider of eDiscovery, IT forensics, and information governance services for global enterprises, law firms, and government agencies. Its skilled staff offers case management for legal investigations and litigations into such issues as fraud, regulatory compliance breaches, and data and intellectual property theft, as well as consulting for information governance.

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Switzerland, there is also an office in Singapore for both national and international projects. Honorably, this client was selected Global Investigation Review as one of the Leading Corporate Investigations Firm in Switzerland.

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SOLUTION

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CHALLENGE

Addressing the Challenge of Future Data Growth

This client requires an IT infrastructure that enables its staff to collect, store, search, and retrieve large volumes of information quickly. For eDiscovery and forensic investigations, for example, it must save unstructured data like email, Word documents, and a variety of other files it receives from clients. Staff collects metadata from the files, which they store in a SQL database, enabling them to rapidly search for needed documents. They then retrieve the native documents for their work.

To conduct data-intensive investigations on large troves of files, this client relies on sophisticated tools like the Relativity eDiscovery platform, an information management system from Nuix, and the EnCase Forensic digital investigation solution.

“The core of our work is processing and analyzing clients’ data, and our applications, particularly SQL databases, demand high-speed storage to operate efficiently,” said by the specialist in computer forensics.

“Our storage also must be very dependable to ensure there’s never any data loss as well as capable to support the data growth in the next couple of years

SOLUTION

Scalable and Expandable Connectivity Solutions

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QSAN XCubeSAN 5226D was deployed with 10GbE iSCSI and SSDs, each with two terabytes of capacity. The device had multiple connections to two low-latency Mellanox MSX1012 half-width switches via redundant 10GbE iSCSI connections.

This device has been performed flawlessly for years and recently Western Digital Ultrastar Data60 JBOD was attached as expansion unit to achieve the total raw capacity of petabyte.

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RESULT

Maximizing eDiscovery and Forensic Capabilities with QSAN XCubeSAN 5226D

Excellent Performance and Stable Operation

  • Accelerates data collection, processing, and discovery
  • Supports complex queries, efficiently handling thousands of files
  • Ensures stable operation with dual active controllers and redundant components

Outstanding Scalability

  • Expandable up to six PB capacity, ensuring ample storage space
  • Offers thin provisioning, auto-tiering, snapshots, and replication features
  • Easy access to features via SANOS 4.0 operating system

"The QSAN XCubeSAN 5226D Hybrid Flash Array delivers the perfect performance at a very good price. The platform has been rock solid with uptime better than 99.9 percent. Its dependability is important to our business because we simply don’t have the time to deal with lost data or reliability issues. Management is also simple and once the platform is up and running, it requires little administration. We can focus on our work, not IT issues."

Specialist in computer forensics

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