Success stories: 'Global File System' category

Health First

Healthcare provider migrates cardiology application to Red Hat with zero downtime.

Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Brevard County, Florida
Opportunity: Create a storage network system to provide consistently high performance and availability.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System, Fibre Channel SCSI
Applications: Cardiology PACS
Hardware: IBM SAN, DVD jukeboxes, SATA hard drives
Benefits: Dramatically increased network performance and availability, resulting in substantially increased uptime, high speed for high-definition video streaming, and improved clinical application access for those performing patient care.
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Filed under Healthcare, IBM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, North America, Global File System on October 15th, 2007 | No comments »

CD-adapco realizes very high performance with low-cost clustering

Industry: Fluid dynamics software
Geography: New York and London
Goal: Scalable, cost-effective storage management
Solution: Red Hat Global File System (GFS)
Cluster size (nodes, storage): 32 nodes, 8 Terabytes
Storage hardware specifics: GNBD block sharing to 32 servers
Applications/Software: STAR-CD, STAR-CCM+
Benefits: Scalable IO performance, reduced complexity via data sharing
Special GFS features exploited: GNBD
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Filed under Services, EMEA, North America, Global File System on October 15th, 2007 | No comments »

At the Munich Trade Fair: Red Hat Global File System (GFS) provides a modern cluster solution with virtualized storage

Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fai–MMI), which organizes about 40 trade fairs for capital goods, consumer goods, and new technologies is one of the world’s leading trade fair companies. Over 30,000 exhibitors representing more than 90 countries and two million visitors from about 180 countries take part in the events in Munich every year. With fi ve subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.

MMI is clearly set for further growth, and, as the business expands, so must the IT infrastructure. This need became apparent by the middle of 2005; the existing infrastructure for providing web services was no longer fully able to cope with the increased requirements. Further scaling of the system would have involved great expense. At that time, the web services were based on a Linux cluster using the NFS fi le system; the operating system used on the cluster nodes was Debian.
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Filed under Consumer, HP, Intel, EMEA, Global File System on October 15th, 2007 | No comments »