Iomega, San Diego, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection, has announced that Dr. Martens a shoe purveyor to the young and restless as well as many of the rest of us, has deployed Iomega StorCenter, desktop NAS servers to take data protection and disaster recovery to the next level while slashing the time and effort required to safeguard a fast-growing virtualized VMwareA[R] environment.
Dr. Martens also plans to leverage the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d's robust, reliable performance and iSCSI connectivity to expand its reach within the organization. Additionally, the fact that the StorCenter ix4-200d is the first NAS server in its class to be VMware certified gives the company an easy and highly cost-effective replacement for its aging IBM SAN. "The Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d is exactly what I was looking for," concludes Guanco. "This highly functional NAS platform has exceeded my expectations in terms of supporting disk-based backup, recovery and disaster recovery. I'm looking forward to additional uses in the future."The Dr. Martens IT team in the Portland, Oregon offices immediately took advantage of the advanced features of the StorCenter ix4-200d, including multiple RAID configurations and iSCSI block-level access, ensured elevated reliability and flexibility. Thanks to the device's simple set-up, Guanco had the StorCenter ix4-200d up and running in "four clicks."For more information, visit
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EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.Founded in 2002 by CEO and Designer Stacey Bendet, alice olivia by Stacey Bendet started with a pants collection. In addition to its name stores, the company's merchandise is available in more than 600 stores worldwide.Dr. Martens has taken advantage of its Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d units to perform faster, flawless backups. Company files can now be restored in about two minutes, Guanco reports, a big improvement over the four or more hours previously required and a reason for celebration among the IT team members and other subsidiary employees. "Backups and recoveries are a dream now," adds Guanco. "I'm able to keep 30 days of data on disk, which means we can respond more efficiently to an employee's restore requests."Built with EMC's world-class enterprise storage, security and cloud technologies, the Iomega StorCenter product family incorporates not only fundamental but advanced features, many not previously affordable for smaller enterprises. Iomega StorCenter products range in storage capacity from 1TB to 24TB, and support PC, MacA[R] and LinuxA[R] environments."A combination of things resulted in our decision to locate in Secaucus," says Jafferjee. He notes that while warehouse space the company found in Pennsylvania cost 75 percent less than in Secaucus - $1 to $2 per square foot, as opposed to $6, Secaucus is closer to the corporate offices, which will remain in Manhattan. It also was far easier to transfer formerly-based New York employees to Secaucus, with its convenient commute, than to Pennsylvania, where the company expects it would have had to hire new staff. Additionally, the company trucks goods to its stores, so Secaucus got points for being more geographically desirable.According to Shaun Guanco, system administrator for Dr. Martens Airwair LLC, restoring files from tapes could take hours. In some cases, the company was forced to revert to a previous week's backup, which did not contain the most up-to-date data. As a result, Dr. Martens sought a fast, simple and flexible HDD-based replacement to its legacy tape solution. "We wanted to accelerate overall backups and restores but it had to be straightforward because I'm a 'one-man show' with a small team and no time for a big learning curve," he explains. "The new platform also had to be flexible enough to work well in our heavily virtualized environment."*Iomega StorCenter Network Storage Products*Dr. Martens has taken advantage of its Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d units to perform faster, flawless backups. Company files can now be restored in about two minutes, Guanco reports, a big improvement over the four or more hours previously required and a reason for celebration among the IT team members and other subsidiary employees. "Backups and recoveries are a dream now," adds Guanco. "I'm able to keep 30 days of data on disk, which means we can respond more efficiently to an employee's restore requests."With assistance from reseller PC Connection, Dr. Martens chose Iomega StorCenter ix4d NAS Servers with 12TBs* of capacity each and a complement of standard and advanced data storage and protection features. Ideally suited for small businesses and remote offices, the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d offered Dr. Martens robust and affordable network storage with fast data throughput and simple operation for file sharing and backup. The portable desktop system came with a data replication function that made it easy to copy files to and from the device to another NAS device, network share or USB-attached storage system.The UK-based shoe company, a pop culture favorite well known around the globe for its cushioned air sole and fashion-forward designs, relies on Iomega network storage solutions to ensure optimum data availability for 150 employees at its Portland, Oregon-based subsidiary, Dr. Martens Airwair LLC. A five-person IT team chose the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS, a compact four-bay desktop server, after encountering persistent performance problems with tape-based backup and recovery, which was cumbersome, time consuming and unreliable. There was also growing concern on the IT team about the company's ability to access its VMware environment fast enough in a disaster recovery situation.The UK-based shoe company, a pop culture favorite well known around the globe for its cushioned air sole and fashion-forward designs, relies on Iomega network storage solutions to ensure optimum data availability for 150 employees at its Portland, Oregon-based subsidiary, Dr. Martens Airwair LLC. A five-person IT team chose the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS, a compact four-bay desktop server, after encountering persistent performance problems with tape-based backup and recovery, which was cumbersome, time consuming and unreliable. There was also growing concern on the IT team about the company's ability to access its VMware environment fast enough in a disaster recovery situation.About IomegaBuilt with EMC's world-class enterprise storage, security and cloud technologies, the Iomega StorCenter product family incorporates not only fundamental but advanced features, many not previously affordable for smaller enterprises. Iomega StorCenter products range in storage capacity from 1TB to 24TB, and support PC, Mac and Linux environments."We took everything into account, including the state's incentives, and decided Secaucus would be the best location," Jafferjee says. To support the company's move to New Jersey and its job creation, the NJ EDA awarded alice olivia by Stacey Bendet a Business Employment Incentive Program (BEIP) grant worth an estimated $340,112 over 10 years. Jafferjee adds that while the company was already looking at prospective sites and didn't need assistance identifying available space, "the New Jersey officials were very helpful and made us feel welcome."With six free-standing boutiques in New York City (Madison Avenue and Bryant Park), Los Angeles and Malibu, California, Greenwich, Connecticut, and Southampton, New York, the company has been able to manage by using public storage space, explained Husein Jafferjee, alice olivia by Stacey Bendet COO. However, the company now offers a full line of products for women, men and children, recently launched a shoe collection and expanded its portfolio to include accessories. It also plans to open more stores. Clearly, it made sense to rethink its warehousing arrangement.EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset -- information -- in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
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