AristaSoft Assures High Availability Through Storage Solution

What if, with minimal effort, you could have your own state-of-the-art, fully functional and reliable IT department? With none of the pain of finding and retaining qualified staff … none of the implementation headaches … none of the usual drain on business capital. Would you do it? AristaSoft, "The IT Department for High Tech Companies™ ," bets you would.

An industry-focused application service provider (I-ASP), AristaSoft offers an integrated business solution for the high-tech equipment industry. AristaSoft functions as a company's IT department, providing a full range of services: assembling, implementing, hosting, supporting and managing an enterprise business solution, as well as helping to scale it as the company grows.

Because of its clear focus, AristaSoft can give customers solutions that reflect a depth of knowledge about industry requirements and best practices:
  • Lifecycle customer services, with a single point of contact - the Industry Applications Executive - who guides the development of a solution from initial architecture to ongoing evaluation of enhancements and new applications.
  • Best-in-class business application software.
  • Managed services, with a tightly meshed network of technology partners that enable AristaSoft to provide business-critical solutions 24x7.

The Challenge
"The key to our success," says Sudeep Rikhy, AristaSoft Vice President of Strategic Technology, "is high availability. Our customers will not and we will not, accept system downtime." As a crucial component of a high availability application environment, AristaSoft realized at the outset the need for best-of-breed enterprise data storage systems. In addition, they needed a storage solution that would:
  • Scale easily to accommodate growth, both in customer data storage requirements and in AristaSoft's customer base.
  • Use minimal physical space at its co-location facilities, enabling AristaSoft to grow its business and bring on new customers while controlling real estate costs.

The Solution
"Using a storage service provider speeds time to market, reduces risks, and saves money - that's what we believe and what we tell customers," notes Rikhy. "So it made sense to use StorageNetworks. They are a storage service provider, they acquired and implemented the equipment we wanted, and their pricing model is right. StorageNetworks' expertise in managing large data centers and storage farms is proving very valuable to us."

StorageNetworks helped AristaSoft acquire, implement, and manage a data storage infrastructure solution. With StorageNetworks DataPACS SM -Live service, AristaSoft has been able to:
  • Guarantee high availability of the storage infrastructure
  • Give customers an instant storage infrastructure that is robust and reliable
  • Minimize capital expenditures
AristaSoft found that the DataPACS service removed the burden of data storage and did it better, faster, and more effectively than they could have done it on their own. By leveraging point-in-time copies of their data, AristaSoft was able to reduce costs, test new applications and generate incremental revenue.

StorageNetworks uses a high-speed network, the Global Data Storage SM Network (GDSN), combining state-of-the-art storage facilities called Storage Point-of-Presence (S-POP SM) data centers, 24x7 remote monitoring from its Global Operations Center and turnkey solutions for customer data storage challenges.

The Benefits
According to Rikhy, AristaSoft is seeing some important benefits:
  • High data availability for its customers - a fundamental requirement
  • Scalability - to add capacity as business grows
  • Reach - the Global Data Storage Network allows AristaSoft to expand its business to new regions using the same storage model
  • Credibility - the alliance with StorageNetworks helps validate that AristaSoft has enterprise-class data storage infrastructure
  • Effectiveness - the total cost of ownership and cash flow models are well-suited to AristaSoft's business.
"Using StorageNetworks lets us achieve our goals for high availability and performance," adds Rikhy, "and gives us a great deal of flexibility in deployment. We don't have to deal with vendors to provide storage. We just use StorageNetworks to let us know when we need more capacity and they increase the amount available to us."

Conclusion
The StorageNetworks solution enables AristaSoft to concentrate on delivering the best applications service to its customers and to give them what they desperately need: high availability. "StorageNetworks core competency in data storage was the decisive factor," concludes Rikhy. They use high-quality equipment, and have the people, the expertise, and the pricing model that fits our business goals."

More About StorageNetworks
StorageNetworks, Inc. is an information Storage Service Provider (SSP) for the e-Economy and a leader in the trend toward making managed data storage services as accessible as phone or electric services.

StorageNetworks services let customers focus on building their business, not their data center. StorageNetworks customers also achieve greater flexibility, quicker time to market, high level of reliability and security and lower operating costs. The efficiency and reliability come from leveraging the company's unique Global Data Storage Network interconnecting its customers with the company's Storage Points-of-Presence (or S-POP) data centers. StorageNetworks services are available from major Internet data center co-location facilities and in major metropolitan business centers worldwide. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, StorageNetworks operates in major business and government centers nationwide. For further information, please visit the company's Web s i t e at www.StorageNetworks.com, email info@StorageNetworks.com, or call 1-800-463-7105.be trade-marks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. StorageNetworks