Challenges
- Prepare for disaster by moving hundreds of gigabytes of data from their primary to secondary datacenter
- Improve the performance of file sharing and email across the WAN to help distributed design teams collaborate
- Reduce the overhead of managing, protecting, and distributing important design data
Benefits
- Faster file sharing enables faster project delivery and fewer version control problems
- Data center consolidation, and centralization of primary business applications
- Robust disaster recovery plan
- LAN-like performance for users in small sites
- Bandwidth savings
Overview
G&T Conveyor, a large privately held manufacturer in the United States, needed to protect its company assets and leverage inter-office productivity.
G&T Conveyor is the largest privately held turnkey Baggage Handling Systems manufacturer in the United States. G&T has designed, engineered, manufactured, and installed hundreds of claim and make-up devices and miles of transport conveyors, and its product are integrated with Explosive Detection equipment.
Solution
- Deploy Steelhead appliances at data centers, the disaster recovery site and at multiple locations over its private WAN
Now, not only do we have centralized file shares that are accessible at essentially LAN speed anytime, we also have better control over our data; and to top if off our version control problems have disappeared.
George Tilmon, IT Group
G&T Conveyor
