Founded in 1929, this firm set the standard for reliability, quality, and responsiveness to customer needs. Over the decades, the firm prospered, with customers ranging from residential users to industrial enterprises. Headquartered in the USA, the firm has 2,000 employees and authorized distributors of its products across the nation. Its continued success is built on innovation, efficient operations, and strong customer relationships.
As a premier national welding company, the firm generates troves of data that must be stored and protected. Daily, its SQL servers produce structured data, and various departments at its headquarters create unstructured files, including business, manufacturing, marketing, sales, customer relations, and inventory data. Its legacy storage solutions, however, had outlived their lifecycles and no longer provided the performance and reliability the welding company required. Restoring lost data would take too long and disrupt the company’s sales and customers, risking potential financial losses and client dissatisfaction. To maintain operational excellence, the welding firm needed a modern solution that ensured both efficiency and resilience.
The welding firm also operates a variety of satellite sites that are customer-facing offices or warehouses. The firm stores the data created at retail sites on local servers, but for additional protection, it needed to back up the data from these locations to a central repository.
“Our bottom line was it required cost-effective storage solutions with the performance to do backups and rapid restores,” said by the senior system administrator at this welding firm. “These solutions had to be reliable because our remote locations lacked onsite IT administrators to address any problems.”
Working with its trusted value-added reseller and QSAN, this world’s largest welding equipment manufacturer met its data protection and backup solution needs with QSAN products. All data generated at its headquarters are now safely backed up. Should any data be lost in the production environment, they can be restored quickly to their users and applications, ensuring business continuity.
A comprehensive backup solution was implemented using QSAN SAN storage with one DAS expansion unit attached, installed in the HQ datacenter as a central repository. Several QSAN NAS units were deployed at remote sites to fulfill the diverse storage requirements of distributed environments.
“We recommend QSAN products for their performance, reliability, and value,” said the senior network specialist from the reseller. “The QSAN SAN storage system and XD5324D JBOD that comprise the central repository at the firm’s data center justified our faith in QSAN platforms. Together, they affordably offer nearly half a petabyte of capacity, ensuring the company’s needs will be met well into the future.”
The firm continuously backs up the servers at its remote sites to local QSAN NAS storage and platforms, forming part of a reliable backup solution that secures each day’s vital business data. For even greater protection, the firm backs up these systems every night by forwarding their data across the enterprise WAN to the two QSAN arrays at the data center. All the backups at every site are brokered through the Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery application, providing a centralized, robust, and efficient backup solution across all locations.
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