NexentaStor for Vigilant Trough Nordisk Systems

Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced that Vigilant, who counsels companies on employment issues throughout the Northwest and California, selected NexentaStor as its storage array and virtualization appliance.

Nexenta partnered with Nordisk Systems, Inc., which provided hardware and professional services, to develop a system that reduced Vigilant's storage costs, ensured backup and liberated the company from the locked-in business model of legacy storage vendors.

For more than 50 years, Vigilant (which previously operated under the name TOC), has been helping employers stay compliant and out of trouble. Vigilant's staff of employment attorneys, along with safety, human resources, and benefits professionals, guide businesses from all sectors, both large and small, through the maze of employment issues, affirmative action plans, safety concerns, health plans and workplace training.

Vigilant's previous server system, which included SharePoint 1.0 deployed first on a Windows 2000 server and then WSS 3.0 since 2009, was stifling productivity and overall business success. The company's servers were overheating, and renovating the cooling system was cost-prohibitive.

Vigilant's new solution creates a server architecture with a 5U server and storage virtualization stack powered by VMware ESXi and NexentaStor. Nexenta's solution virtualized the physical servers, thereby reducing room temperature, prolonging the server lifecycle, and increasing overall server and network reliability. The solution eliminated redundant backups, reduced downtime, and ensured that critical data would be protected and restored in the event of a hardware failure. Nexenta's OpenStorage approach delivers efficiencies while providing enterprise performance and manageability.

Triet Nguyen, senior network engineer, Vigilant, has stated that, "We were feeling the heat, both literally and figuratively, from our legacy storage system. Failures from overheating and age were causing downtime for staff and delays in customer response time. Nexenta was able to solve all these issues, easily and within budget."

Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems, said: "Vigilant's experience is a textbook case of why companies small and large are embracing OpenStorage. Legacy vendor lock-in forces dependence on costly and inconveniently timed hardware updates. When your company stays with these older systems, your business output suffers as a result. Nexenta empowered Vigilant to free itself from this model and, as a result, Vigilant is experiencing significant cost-savings and an increase in uptime."