URI System Using Qsan XCubeSAN XN5004R

URI System has selected the QSAN Technology, Inc.‘s XCubeSAN XN5004R.

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URI System is a professional server hosting company in South Korea operating for over 16 years. Striving to deliver the best services in the industry, URI System has recently become a distributor of Acronis International GmbH‘ Cloud Backup in Korea, effectively expanding its services.

Challenge
Being network solutions and services provider, the company in constant search for enhancing customer experience with both software and hardware. Global trends in software-defined storage push it to find more cost-effective solutions without an impact on performance and quality. This time big challenge for us was to come up with a server backup solution in reliability, performance, and maintenance simplicity.

Solution
The firm works with Acronis Backup and QSAN storage, and found Hypervisor in XN5004R capable of simultaneously running Acronis server and storage. Solution in short, on XN5004R, using hypervisor manager, it has virtualized Acronis Storage 2.4 and setup NFS Host. This was a discovery for the company, since now it can reduce the price of professional backup solution by removing server node and even having reliability improved. Maintenance of this setup is completely different experience.

Recommended product:
To all company’s partners aside from backup with Acronis, URI would recommend to check the following features in XCubeNAS product line:

• Hypervisor manager

• Auto-tiering and de-dupe

• Xmirror

• WORM

Sang Gi Kim, assistant manager, said:“Hypervisor Manager in XCubeNAS is a powerful yet user-friendly feature, providing us with confidence in solving complex network infrastructure challenges.“

Benefits:

• TCO
  Customers can receive backup solution in performance, capacity, and reliability at the best TCO.

• Improved setup and maintenance
  Imagine there is no full server node to setup, as well as switching, it reduces total setup time by at least 30%. Further maintenance is also much simplified since both Acronis and QSAN UIs are quite intuitive. If we receive an error from backup there is only one device to check now.

• Advanced usability
  XN5004R is an entry model in QSAN lineup. The company could create Multiple VMs. (Windows, Linux, SDS – Software Defined Storage and so on.) as well as provide file sharing. Plus, it has all the benefits of native software provided by the company: compression, de-dupe, if customer needs more security for backup, there is AES-256 and SED support.