London, October 10, 2011 -
Broshuis is celebrating 125 years in the business of making unique
trailers tailored for special transports. Headquartered in Kampen,
Holland, the company employs 150 people delivering around 1,000
trailers per year and operates offices and service centres
throughout Europe. Like most mid-sized businesses, Broshuis is
concerned with keeping overheads at a minimum and reducing
management burden and costs, whilst maintaining the quality of its
products, which have earned high recognition in the industry for
both innovation and stability. To increase overall data
availability and stay in control of their IT spend, Broshuis
decided to move to an infrastructure built on a NetApp
foundation.
Prior to NetApp, Broshuis' stored data on
disparate servers, which had reached full capacity and proved
inefficient in the recently deployed virtualized environment.
Capacity bottlenecks and a lack of protection for critical data in
the case of a server breakdown pushed Broshuis to rethink the
storage solution. Data growth was also an issue. This was partly a
result of a transition to digital archiving and to the increase of
custom job orders.
Today, Broshuis deploys a NetApp FAS2020,
which stores their critical CAD files, the heartbeat of the
Broshuis manufacturing and maintenance processes, as well as the
e-mail mailboxes and virtual machines. Their 5 HP servers were
virtualized to a single VMware vSphere® server. NetApp
Snapshot provides the data back up; NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery
enables the recuperation of lost e-mails, from single to complete
mailboxes.
Continuous and rapid data availability is an
essential advantage of the solution. "The change was radical. Once
the data was migrated to the NetApp system, access time was no
longer a subject for complaint for all our users. By accelerating
access to CAD data and plans, NetApp has contributed to greater
efficiency in the design cycle and ultimately impacts shorter
delivery times to customers. We also achieved that by only spending
a third of what we had forecast in our budget. That's unbeatable",
says Thierry Sollie, IT Manager at Broshuis.
"The NetApp foundation for the e-mail
environment has been very effective in helping Broshuis transit to
an efficient IT infrastructure that enables them to be agile, to
grow with their business, to manage change and to focus on business
without compromises," says Jeremy Wallis at NetApp.
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