Case Study: Einhell achieves a modern, high-availability global IT infrastructure with Brocade

New Brocade Network Infrastructure Supports Einhell’s Worldwide Expansion

Einhell, a 50‑year‑old Bavarian tool and garden wholesaler with 40+ subsidiaries and about 1,400 employees, was expanding internationally and needed a robust, standardized IT backbone to deliver consistent services from its shared service center in Landau. With services virtualized across three data centers, the company required high‑performance networking and storage to ensure continuous availability and support global growth.

Einhell worked with INNEO and Brocade to deploy a NetApp MetroCluster storage solution on five Brocade VDX 6720 switches, modernizing its SAN and network for automatic failover, high availability and global standardization. The migration was seamless, delivering faster access to centralized services, greater flexibility for rollouts, improved stability for admins and customers, and freed IT resources to focus on business expansion and next‑generation services, yielding clear ROI.

Einhell

Dr. Christoph Urban

Director of IT and Business Services at Einhell