Case Study: Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, P.A. achieves continuous high availability and improved storage performance with DataCore Software's SANsymphony-V

Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, P.A. - Customer Case Study

Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, P.A., a Miami-based business law firm with 22 attorneys and about 50 staff, needed a reliable way to protect growing volumes of legal files and ensure non-stop operations after repeated server failures, power problems and even building flooding. IT director Mike Ferguson was charged to “get something good and make sure it works,” and chose DataCore Software’s storage virtualization solution (initially SANmelody, later SANsymphony‑V) to deliver high availability, centralized management and investment protection.

DataCore Software implemented a virtualized storage infrastructure with two SANsymphony‑V storage hypervisors running as synchronously mirrored copies in a co-location cage in front of Promise arrays, supporting over 25 VMs and about 8 TB of managed capacity for 50+ users. The deployment delivered measurable results: true high availability and data redundancy, faster performance across Layer 2 transport, centralized management, reduced hardware refresh cycles and tangible cost savings (Ferguson reports utilization improvements “one‑hundred times over”), eliminated tape infrastructure, and ensured business continuity during disasters.

Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, P.A.

Mike Ferguson

IT director at Miami-based