Case Study: LexisNexis achieves scalable, cost‑effective, high‑availability storage consolidation with NexentaStor (Nexenta)

LexisNexis - Customer Case Study

LexisNexis Univentio, a LexisNexis company and leading licensor of global patent data, needed a business-critical infrastructure upgrade to support explosive growth—storing 200 million files with expectations to quadruple—and rising virtualization demands. Their data was scattered across Apple Xsan, direct‑attached storage and multiple appliances, creating management, performance and availability issues, while they sought a solution that could reuse existing hardware.

They deployed NexentaStor on their Dell servers using ZFS, HA Cluster and Nexenta MetroHA with NFS shared storage (240TB onsite, 90TB DR at a second site over a VPN). The migration was completed in under six months, handled internally, and delivered significant cost savings, improved performance, avoidance of vendor lock‑in, and the scalability and high availability needed to support projected growth.

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Ronald Smits

IT Manager, LexisNexis Univentio