(SOUTHFIELD, Michigan - Apr. 25, 2007) - With a client whose own customers each required three servers, Secure-24 had a challenge
on their hands. How was Secure-24 going to provide so many file servers connected to the data they needed to share, and still have
room to scale up if needed?
The ground-breaking solution was to marry EMC fiber-attached storage and the open source file system GFS with VMware's ESX. Secure-24
CIO Matthias Horch says of the innovation, "As far as we’re aware, nobody else is currently doing this."
Such a combination provides a cost-effective way to cluster operating systems and applications as well as providing a true multinode
file system cluster that scales up to several exabytes of data. By putting GFS on a virtual file server – which acts as though it is
directly connected to EMC data storage – Secure-24 is able to have as many (virtual) file servers as they want attached to the data storage.
Such redundancy takes high availability to a new, intense level. Furthermore, this solution creates the ability to roll out additional
GFS and application nodes in mere minutes, saving infrastructure costs an implementation time by utilizing templating.
"We saw how essential this was when we had an application issue that impacted production and we were able to troubleshoot and solve
the problem in a short period of time by simply reproducing the issue on another VMWare node." says Scott McIsaac, project manager
at Secure-24.
About Secure-24
Secure-24 is a premier provider of information security and managed hosting services. We specialize in managed hosting and disaster
recovery services for enterprise level, business critical applications. Performance, security and high availability are paramount
to the success of our business model. Secure-24, Inc. provides services to organizations that need to meet rigorous compliance
metrics (SAS-70, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLB, etc.). Our services are provided to financial institutions, healthcare, government
agencies, and tier I and II automotive suppliers, as well as OEMs. To learn more, please visit us at
http://www.secure-24.com or email us at info@secure-24.com.
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