Case Study: Salinen Austria AG achieves lower-cost, uninterrupted storage upgrades with LINBIT's iSCSI SAN solution

Salinen Austria AG - Customer Case Study

Salinen Austria AG faced a growing storage challenge across servers at two sites about 12 miles apart, with its IT infrastructure’s 2 TB of net data capacity expected to run out as data volume grew by 30% per year. To avoid repeated hardware upgrades and service interruptions, the company looked for a more flexible and cost-effective storage approach from LINBIT.

LINBIT implemented an IP-based iSCSI storage area network using DRBD®, allowing Salinen Austria AG to consolidate many hard disks into a single SAN-like storage box on standard Ethernet and COTS hardware. The result was a solution that cost about a tenth of a traditional SAN, enabled upgrades and maintenance during operation without interruption of service, and delivered significantly lower total costs over three years than other storage options.

Salinen Austria AG

Volkmar Ruzicka

Head of IT