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Sanborn Expands BlueArc Solution, Maps Direct Path to Customer Satisfaction
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAN JOSE, CA, July 29 / MARKET WIRE/ --
BlueArc? Corporation, a leader in scalable,
high-performance unified network storage, today announced that Sanborn has
expanded its BlueArc Titan storage infrastructure to streamline and
accelerate production of precise photogrammetric maps. A leading provider
of geospatial solutions and mapping services, Sanborn depends on the
world-record speed and capacity of a pair of BlueArc Titan servers and 50
terabytes of Fibre Channel storage to complete projects on time and on
budget, despite shrinking deadlines and escalating file size and volume.
Since earning a reputation for highly detailed fire insurance maps more
than a century ago, Sanborn has provided mapping services that today
include the collection and compilation of geographic- and location-based
data, or geospatial information. Initially, Sanborn chose BlueArc
technology to consolidate and simplify storage infrastructure. Now, a
second BlueArc Titan server and Fibre Channel storage help Sanborn take
advantage of unsurpassed performance and capacity to boost productivity.
Sanborn runs approximately 200 processes concurrently and around the clock,
and has doubled the number of technicians performing error correction
because the storage infrastructure can support the activity.
"Sanborn stakes its reputation on client satisfaction, and while we didn't
want to pass up a high-profile project for a leading search engine, we
needed to be certain that we could meet their requirements for both quality
and speed," said Doyle Heisler, IT director, Sanborn. "We already knew the
kind of IOPS we could expect from the Titan server, and Fibre Channel let
us make the most of it -- a powerful combination that meant our technicians
have become incredibly productive."
One BlueArc Titan server manages the initial transfer of data from aerial
surveyors' cameras to SATA disk archives. The second BlueArc Titan server
manages Fibre Channel storage for simultaneous, out-of-sequence data access
as technicians correct images to produce richly detailed, extremely
accurate maps. A pilot deployment of BlueArc and Fibre Channel storage
proved so powerful that technicians were able to rectify 15,000 images in a
24-hour period using a pilot deployment. In contrast, technicians typically
processed 1,000 images in the same period with image data stored on SATA
disks.
Sanborn's dramatic gains in productivity correlate to a rise in repeat
business from clients such as Maricopa County in Arizona, which awarded
Sanborn a new contract based on performance. Heisler said that industry
trends reflect growth in project complexity, even as project timelines get
shorter and shorter. He says, "If we can't meet deadlines, we certainly
can't expand our business."
About BlueArc
BlueArc is a leading provider of high-performance unified network storage
systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as
electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education,
Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Our products support both
network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN,
services on a converged network storage platform.
We enable companies to expand the ways they explore, discover, research,
create, process and innovate in data-intensive environments. Our products
replace complex and performance-limited products with high performance,
scalable and easy to use systems capable of handling the most data
intensive applications and environments. Further, we believe that our
energy efficient design and our products' ability to consolidate legacy
storage infrastructures, dramatically increases storage utilization rates
and reduces our customers' total cost of ownership. Information about
BlueArc solutions and services can be found at http://www.bluearc.com/.
Contact:
Louis Gray
BlueArc Corporation
(408) 576-6684Email Contact
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