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now generate results in under four hours, allowing SanDisk legal teams to run more search iterations and refine data sets in less than half the time.
storage. Data centre managers should start to evaluate what business applications—both today and tomorrow—will require in terms of performance, so they can start positioning themselves catch the ‘Flash-accelerated data centre’ wave as it begins to crest.
Q Can you provide one or two brief customer stories – how SanDisk is helping folks address their storage issues?
A Creating our own best practice
Many companies provide cutting-edge solutions for organisations worldwide, but don’t always practice what they preach. Electronic discovery (or eDiscovery) refers to discovery in civil litigation or government investigations which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format. These data are subject to local rules and agreed-upon processes, and are often reviewed for privilege and relevance before being turned over to opposing counsel. eDiscovery can take a long period of time and can become very costly for legal departments.
As a 25-year flash technology leader, SanDisk has built the world’s 4th most powerful patent portfolio as ranked by IEEE Spectrum, outranking companies like GE, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Protecting these patents often involves litigation. At any given time there is a Litigation Portfolio, a collection of active legal litigation matters of different types, for example, employment, anti-trust, patent and general contract disputes, with each case having a unique profile of data. Searching company archives to discover the data profile for a particular litigation can be time consuming and costly.
SanDisk IT deployed FlashSoft for VMware® vSphere® on its virtualized servers running the eDiscovery application Enterprise Vault from Symantec®. Queries that had taken as long as eight hours could
The deployment of FlashSoft software provided benefits to both SanDisk Legal and IT departments. With FlashSoft, the SanDisk Legal department was able to maximize the number of searches within a set timeframe enabling the litigation team to quickly sharpen searches, reducing data volume and ultimately costs associated with legal review. For the SanDisk IT team, FlashSoft was deployed directly onto servers that would most benefit from application acceleration without disruption to the application and associated data-management and data protection policies.
But don’t just take our word for it …
Middle Tennessee Ear, Nose & Throat (MTENT) is a full-service medical, surgical, and audiological practice. The clinic serves thousands of patients annually, and maintains medical records for tens of thousands of patients treated at the clinic over the past twenty years. To provide faster, more comprehensive service to their patients, the practice chose to migrate to a paperless records system. This presented a significant, concern for the IT team because even with traditional paper records the servers and storage systems for the clinic’s electronic medical records was already under-performing.
Since deploying FlashSoft software, the white “screen of death” is gone and the clinic’s staff no longer complain about record queries timing out on slow systems. For Chris and his team the greatest impact is that FlashSoft enables him to realise his goals with his existing infrastructure. The clinic has been able to achieve the goal of going paperless, and even though this has more than doubled the size of the data on the systems, the performance and responsiveness have never been better. Additionally, the clinic has also doubled the size of its medical staff. Their Head of IT Support believes that without FlashSoft, this would not have been possible without a significant investment in additional IT infrastructure. Based on his current experience with FlashSoft he is considering it for his next big project involving systems processing images from CT scans.
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