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Posted by Mary E. Shacklett on November 21, 2008
Email security service provider DigiTar, based in Boise, Idaho, has been providing services and support to companies in the financial, legal, government, and other vertical industries since 2004. Its clients range in size from five employees to 50,000, so there isn't a single service or solution that fits them all. But the one thing they all want is consistently reliable, insightful, and responsive service.
"We are in a highly competitive industry with competitive margins," says Jason Williams, DigiTar's chief operating and technology officer. "As we approached our storage needs, we wanted to reduce operational costs -- such as the cost of storage itself and the time it was taking for us to manage storage."
What DigiTar wanted was the flexibility of more efficient and cost-effective storage that would facilitate better service to clients. "Part of what we wanted to deliver to our client base was more flexible analytics and reports that presented clients with fresh information that they had never seen before," Williams says. "Additionally, many of our clients wanted to use us as an archiving facility for their reporting and results."
To answer the challenge, DigiTar embarked on an evolutionary storage journey that began with low-end storage arrays employing 7,200 RPM SATA hard drives and moved to clustered pairs of Sunfire X4500 storage servers from Sun Microsystems. "Before making the move to the X4500, we had looked at several other storage options in the market," he says, "but again and again, Sun's solutions and scalability were best suited to our needs."
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