Venture
Venture Corporation Limited, founded in 1984, is a leading global electronics services provider today, offering an excellent combination of outstanding management, world-class technical capabilities, innovative manufacturing technology, reliable testing capabilities and state-of-the-art facilities. More than 20 years, Venture group business has expanded to worldwide. They comprised of about 30 companies with global clusters of excellence in South-East Asia, North-East Asia, the Americas and Europe, and employed more than 13,000 people worldwide.
The Challenges
The expansions of business require Venture Corporation to upgrade their office facilities to fulfill their business needs. One of the office facilities they need to upgrade is their current storage system. To select a right storage system that can perfectly match with all departments’ requirements. There are few aspects that need to be taken into account. The storage needs to have the ability to propagate the windows active directory to the NAS, able to work on different type of OS platform within the same storage system, provide fast file transfer speed, scalable, ease to use and cater to their budget.
The Solutions
SDB has recommended Ingrasys NAStorage 4420RS to Venture Corporation Ltd based on their requirements. NAStorage allow users to propagate Windows active directory to the NAS and its storage are heterogeneous across any OS platforms. It can integrate seamlessly into existing Windows, MAC, Linux & Novell environments without any downtime. Ingrasys’ NAStorage allows Venture Corporation to scale the NAS solution by using the Ingrasys’ SmartExtend options. Ingrasys’s Access Control List (ACL) solves the security issue for them. The ACL allow permission setting from the user level, folder leveling down to the file level. There are also options that users can also set usage quota to the users as well as folders quotas. The Web Interface Management is a user-friendly interface, which is very easy to use and understand. Ingrasys NAStorage 4420RS is able to let Venture Corporation to achieve quick ROI and have a lower TCO.
The Results
Before they make the decision to purchase Ingrasys NAStorage, they have already tested other NAS. However, these NAS have failed to meet their requirements. They were impressed that Ingrasys is using generic hard disks which will give them the flexibility of upgrading the storage capacity and replacement of hard disks should there is any hard disks failure. Since Ingrasys’s NAStorage allow users to propagate the windows active directory to the NAS, users will save manpower and effort re-keying in all their user names, password as well as user access rights.
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