Unified Storage Environment Satisfies Storage And Backup Needs

For eDirect Impact, the process of electronic discovery involves taking files and email archives, often times many terabytes in size, and ‘exploding' or ‘unrolling' the contents to index and organize them based on content. This process can increase the initial storage volume by a factor of nine. The company and its clients can then search these expanded archives using a specifically selected range of applications and search techniques to unearth relevant data and the ‘smoking guns' for the case.

eDirect Impact demanded the flexibility to instantly bring online and offline the vast archives of file storage needed for new projects and this data had to be backed up quickly and efficiently. The powerful search applications also needed fast, block-level SAN storage to process ever increasing volumes of data within tight time frames.

After evaluating the market, the team at eDirect Impact opted for a RELDATA United Storage System. The controller virtualizes all attached storage at the block level, giving eDirect Impact the ability to deliver NAS, iSCSI SAN, and advanced backup from a single system.