Case Study: Metrologic Instruments achieves 80% faster backups and scalable storage with Vision Solutions

Metrologic Instruments - Customer Case Study

Metrologic Instruments, a nearly 40-year‑old leader in barcode scanners serving 110 countries, faced rapidly growing storage needs as large CAD files and rich marketing assets multiplied. With over 350 patents to protect, the company’s heterogeneous mix of white‑box servers and direct‑attached storage had become a management and scalability bottleneck, hurting engineer productivity and expanding backup windows to as much as 80 hours—putting global business continuity at risk.

Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services designed and deployed a tiered SAN and backup environment—Dell/EMC CX3 arrays (U.S., China, Germany), Brocade switches, Windows Storage Server, Double‑Take replication, Dell PowerVault tape libraries and VMware on Dell PowerEdge servers—plus Symantec Backup Exec. The solution delivered faster CAD access, global replication for disaster recovery, 80% server consolidation and an expected ~200% ROI, and cut full disk‑to‑tape backup time from 80 hours to as little as 14 hours through disk‑to‑disk backups and parallel tape streams.

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