Petrochemical SAN Solutions

MITI solutions eliminate downtime and help Petroleum Company maintain its lead in the energy industry

As the USA’ leading oil refining and marketing company, the petroleum Company demands a powerful and highly scalable IT infrastructure that can store and manage huge volumes of data, keep pace with a wide array of critical transactions, and distribute information across an expanding network of remote sites.

The Challenge: Growing pains put a premium on reliable, scalable storage

To maintain its lead in an energy industry made even more competitive by globalization and deregulation, the company has made enterprise storage management one of the corner stones of its IT strategy. The need for speed and scalability prompted the migration because the old storage solution was proving to be too costly and cumbersome. “One of the biggest issues we faced with the old setup was that it was too slow for the growing demands of the business,” says Tim. “We were running out of storage capacity and we had new applications that demanded higher storage capacity. We upgraded to a newer version of SAP, so naturally along with the upgrade came an increase in storage requirements. We experienced a two- to three-fold increase in terms of storage.

”Solution: Upgrading critical data storage from DAS to SAN

Before they deployed MITI Solution, the storage solution was a SAN using an old Array. Now, MITI has transferred all the production disks from the old storage to the MITI Suggested Array. The Company will eventually use the old array for backup purposes only and it will be redeployed to our development servers. Our development systems are still linked to DAS, but if we have to support production that is stored in the SAN, the development systems will eventually have to follow suit. The Petroleum Company is slowly migrating everything to the infrastructure Suggested by MITI.”

Benefits: Reducing TCO through a managed storage solution

By offering the most advanced network storage solutions, MITI empowers e-businesses throughout the globe by ensuring the steady flow and efficient use of information, making the latest data readily available to users across the enterprise—where it is needed, when it is needed. MITI promotes a proactive information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy.

Assessing and eliminating cost of downtime

The industry mantra is business continuity, since every user denied information is a potential lost customer. MITI solution, addresses this need by reducing backup windows to seconds while keeping applications online and productive. The Solution provides automatic error detection and dynamic load balancing while allowing storage elements to be added or deleted without interrupting applications.

“MITI already has a proven track record and provides excellent support. It means that if we need something or if there is a problem, with just one call, someone can come over and fix it, especially our production systems. Availability is important to us, and MITI support personnel are prepared and can anticipate potential problems. We had an incident where we had something repaired. When the engineer came, he also tended to another part of the system that needed attention. MITI engineers are proactive.” Mamilo Tim