Case Study: City of Heidelberg achieves 25 years of uninterrupted data availability with DataCore SANsymphony

City of Heidelberg achieves 25 years of uninterrupted operations with Datacore

The City of Heidelberg, a historic city in Germany, faced a challenge in managing its growing data volume and ensuring 24/7 reliable IT operations for its various departments. Its existing direct-attached storage was inflexible and unsuitable, prompting a search for a high-availability solution that could pool storage capacity and support diverse applications. The vendor DataCore provided its SANsymphony storage virtualization platform to address these needs.

DataCore's SANsymphony solution created a flexible storage pool, allowing the city to continue using its existing systems while adding high availability and significant performance improvements. The results over 25 years have included 100% data availability, the seamless exchange of over five generations of storage hardware, and three data center relocations without operational interruption. The city's data volume grew to 350 TB without issue, and integration with Veeam significantly reduced backup times and recovery objectives.

City of Heidelberg