eDirect Impact Picks RELDATA Unified Storage for Storage Management

In an effort to cost-effectively scale its rapidly growing, multi-vendor storage infrastructure, eDirect Impact (eDI), a provider of litigation data hosting and support services, is leveraging RELDATA's Unified Storage System.

As a provider of unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, RELDATA offers solutions that facilitate mid-size and distributed enterprises to not disruptively consolidate, virtualize and protect business data across multi-vendor platforms.

According to RELDATA, its Unified Storage Engine (USE) platform enables companies to integrate their existing storage infrastructure to minimize the functional compromise of siloed block and file solutions. At the same time, it also reduces administration costs and data protection compliance risk, as well as preserves current storage investments at lower total costs.

Ever since e-discovery started, many law firms have been hosting an increasing amount of client data, thereby burdening themselves with the complexities of data management.

eDI, a provider of litigation data hosting and support services to law firms, offers an SaaS (News - Alert) offering that enables law firms and corporate legal departments to utilize a advanced IT infrastructure that enhanced data security, advanced technology, customized workflow, additional support, and significant cost savings. The solution helps in reducing the costs and capital investments associated with storing litigation related data.

According to eDI, it stores its customers' files and email archives, which are generally many terabytes in size, and also indexes them by content so that they can be searched to reveal relevant data. Currently, it hosts over 350 terabytes of data for law firms and corporations nationwide, and is experiencing a 35 percent annual increase in its storage requirements.

Consequently, eDI was in need of a platform that could unify all third-party storage under a single solution. And, RELDATA’s Unified Storage Engine platform that is built on open architecture was able to fulfill these requirements.

Officials with RELDATA said in a press release that the company’s Unified Storage System has helped eDI to remain competitive by meeting its legal customers' needs as well as service level agreements without passing on higher costs.

With the help of RELDATA's IP-based management infrastructure that meets all storage requireemnts, eDI eliminated the need for a separate storage network.

Apart from providing entire backup for both NAS and SAN under a single process, eDI was able to better manage its storage management for both their block and file applications, all from a single interface.

Brian Maurer, CIO of eDirect Impact, said in a statement. "Cost was also a compelling factor, and one important reason for choosing RELDATA was its unique ‘Save as You Grow’ pricing model; its software is licensed at the system level, by feature, not by capacity, and there are no minimum or fixed bundles. When you calculate the cost savings based on this pricing, they're incredible." 

In addition, RELDATA announced that multiple education institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, and Castro Valley Unified School District, recently deployed its Unified Storage System to support their rapidly growing IT storage environments.

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