Sistina Software today announced that T-Systems GEI GmbH has
chosen Sistina Global File System (GFS) as a cornerstone of its
data center. T-Systems GEI GmbH is a T-Systems division within
Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s largest telecommunications company
and a Fortune Global 100 company.
T-Systems GEI GmbH selected Sistina GFS for use in its
production environment, where application software for the public
service, traffic and telecommunications services is
developed–ultimately providing comprehensive services for Deutsche
Telekom’s key corporate customers.
T-Systems GEI selected ATIX GmbH, a German storage area network
(SAN) integrator focused on application-clustering solutions for
the financial, scientific computing and education sectors, to
assist with the implementation of the Sistina GFS solution at
T-Systems GEI.
Faced with the arduous task of consolidating and managing
massive amounts of data, ATIX GmbH and T-Systems GEI implemented a
consolidated storage architecture running on the Red Hat Linux
platform. The Sistina GFS data-sharing solution provided the
fundamental capabilities to enable this consolidation that delivers
increased performance and enhanced productivity to the development
team.
Due to the performance, scalability and affordability of the
Linux operating system, T-Systems GEI has increasingly been
implementing Linux throughout their data center for enterprise
deployments.
“Sistina GFS provides T-Systems GEI with enterprise-class
storage management functionality, as well as extremely impressive
price/performance benefits,” said Marcus Ketzer, the T-Systems’
lead IT professional for the project. “When we made the decision to
implement a clustered storage architecture, we realized that we
needed a file system capable of delivering concurrent read and
write capabilities in order to achieve better performance. Of all
the options available, we found that Sistina GFS was the proven,
stable data-sharing technology we needed, providing unmatched
performance, speed and shared read-write storage capabilities.”
“ATIX was able to easily configure T-Systems GEI’s architecture
to support clustering with Sistina GFS, plus seamlessly integrate
the technology across the company’s servers,” said Mark
Hlawatschek, chief technology officer at ATIX GmbH, a Sistina
reseller based in Munich, Germany. “As Linux continues to become a
commodity operating system, ATIX anticipates many new opportunities
for leveraging Sistina’s rich data-sharing technology in
conjunction with Linux for production-class data center
implementations across Europe.”
Specializing in Linux storage and clustering solutions for
enterprise applications, ATIX works closely with partners such as
Sistina and Hewlett-Packard to deliver best-of-breed clustered
storage solutions. ATIX has been experiencing a strong demand for
Sistina GFS technology from various industries throughout Europe
including financial institutions, Internet service providers and
media companies.
Recognized as the de facto cluster file system on Linux, Sistina
GFS is a highly stable solution for enterprise users requiring
reliable access to data. In addition to Deutsche Telekom, Sistina
GFS technology is in use at multiple telecommunications, financial
and manufacturing industries worldwide, to consolidate existing
server and storage resources into a single management domain,
essentially serving as the “central nervous system” in a SAN.
“Many of our customers’ implementations, such as the one at
T-Systems GEI, rely on Sistina to provide scalable, efficient and
robust data-sharing services without crushing IT budgets,” said
Joaqu?n Ruiz, Sistina’s vice president of marketing and product
management. “Sistina continues to experience strong demand for its
products, given that many enterprises are faced with the challenge
of sharing increasing amounts of data and better utilizing their
existing compute and storage assets. This has led more and more
customers to adopt an `incremental computing approach’ based on
industry standard Intel-based servers, Linux and SAN technologies
glued together by proven data-sharing software such as Sistina
GFS.”
In their production environment, T-Systems GEI is running
Sistina GFS on Hewlett-Packard Intel-based servers connected via a
Fibre Channel SAN to Compaq StorageWorks Raid Array 8000 FC
storage. These servers now provide scalable services such as NFS,
Samba, HTTP, and X Window, in addition to hosting a configuration
management tool called “Telelogic CM Synergy.”