International Commercial Law Firm Stephenson Harwood Deploys DataCore Open Storage & Disaster Recovery Solution

DataCore today announced that a leading international commercial law firm Stephenson Harwood has chosen DataCore SANsymphony management software and StorageTek® BladeStore SATA disk systems to meet their growing storage demand and disaster recovery requirements. Documents and e-mail are the information "lifeblood" of law firms

London, U.K. (PRWEB) April 1, 2005 -- SANsymphony Management and Virtualized Storage Reliably Services the Needs of Windows, Novell and Linux Users.

DataCore today announced that a leading international commercial law firm Stephenson Harwood has chosen DataCore SANsymphony management software and StorageTek® BladeStore SATA disk systems to meet their growing storage demand and disaster recovery requirements. Documents and e-mail are the information "lifeblood" of law firms. Stephenson Harwood with millions of documents and e-mails decided it needed a flexible and scalable storage solution that was absolutely reliable and resilient. The firm also needed advanced network storage services such as snapshots, high-availability mirrors and disaster recovery. The ultimate solution was architected and installed by TriSys, a leading authorised DataCore solution and service provider in the UK. SANsymphony fit the bill and enabled Stephenson Harwood to deploy a flexible open storage solution to be managed as a fault tolerant virtualized storage pool to reliably service the storage needs of Stephenson Harwood's Windows, Novell and Linux communities. DataCore's Asynchronous IP Mirroring (AIM) software resolved the site data protection and recovery problem - AIM provided a dependable and affordable approach to replicating storage off-site by using standard IP networking to protect and mirror their storage remotely to low-cost SATA disks.

"At Stephenson Harwood we are faced with increasingly demanding storage management tasks due to compliance requirements, business growth as well as an expanding client base" commented Chris Petrie, IT Director, Stephenson Harwood. "TriSys listened to our concerns, evaluated our requirements and recommended the flexibility and openness of DataCore SANsymphony as the best solution to address our issues". He continued "The solution has met our expectations. It gave us centralised management control, a strong disaster recovery solution and made our existing data storage more robust and flexible. We have also achieved a scalable and open architecture for us to build upon as we grow in the future."

Like all legal firms it was critical that an off-site DR solution was put in place. Chris saw most effective solutions as cost prohibitive until seeing DataCore's AIM, saying it was chosen for "simplicity and reliability. With SANsymphony we were able to accelerate the performance of low-cost SATA disks to better than SCSI drive performance. We realised the performance and the reliability we needed without having to sacrifice our budget".

Stephenson Harwood has experienced tremendous growth in data. This growth, coupled with the requirement for fast data access and retrieval throughout the business and the ever-present need for maximum efficiency prompted the need for a solution that could scale and evolve. "The solution is an excellent fit with their existing architecture since it provided the increased efficiency, cost management and flexibility to meet their future demands" said TriSys Business Development Manager, Adrian Burch.

About Stephenson Harwood

Stephenson Harwood is an international commercial law firm with around 70 partners and more than 500 staff worldwide. The business is focused on three key markets: the financial services, maritime services and the real estate markets. Together these three markets account for more than two thirds of the business. A full service firm, Stephenson Harwood has offices in five countries across Europe and Asia: England, France, Greece, Singapore and in China in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In London, almost 40% of our revenue is earned from overseas clients. For more information: www.shlegal.com

About Trisys

Founded in January 1991, TriSys has become one of the UK's most respected providers of total data management solutions. TriSys data management solutions are designed to save time and money. TriSys has successfully integrated data management, protection and availability solutions into major organizations throughout the UK. To learn more: www.trisys.co.uk

About DataCore Software

DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. Small to Medium Enterprises and Global 2000 data centers rely on DataCore to deploy disk servers, to easily add capacity expansion and to centralize and automate storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. For more: www.datacore.com

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