Cirrus Data Solutions today releases the penultimate case study in our Summer of Customer Success, this one involving one of North America's largest and oldest automakers. Over the last decade, company after company has called upon Cirrus Data to help them with emergency migrations of block data from failing or aging storage. Beyond straight-up rescues, the next highest level of emergency after "failure" seems to be companies calling us about pending dramatic increases in maintenance [...]

Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this one from a few years ago, involving a luxury hospitality chain with two dozen hotels across Canada and the United States. Corporations are often hesitant to move to all-new storage architectures and/or infrastructures, even when the change can result in huge benefits to speed and reliability. This "data friction" - defined as the costs in time, energy, and attention required simply [...]

Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this one from a medical imaging service that hosts radiology services for over 2000 healthcare providers in the United States. As with most companies in the medical field, the end-user in this case study had no tolerance for any downtime, as its data was online 24/7 and needed to remain accessible to the 100 Windows VM's in the customer's environment at all [...]

Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this one from a partner in Central America who worked with Cirrus Data to resolve an issue where shipping Cirrus Migrate On-Premises (CMO - formerly DMS) appliances on-site would be cost prohibitive. At Cirrus Data, we've found that shipping our traditionally loaned Cirrus Migrate On-Premises appliances to some Central American countries can sometimes cost more than the servers themselves. In the past, [...]

Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this one from a global financial advisory and consulting firm that had an issue with migration that is less common, but one that Cirrus Data has helped companies with when other migration solutions couldn't. Our Customer Success Stories often feature cases where customers needed their data migrated within a very tight deadline, or needed to make sure that users noticed no impact [...]

Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this time from Loyola University, a private research university in Chicago, one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States with over 17,000 students. When the school needed to replace its aging IBM XIV Storage System arrays in two data center locations, it chose Pure Storage, purchasing Pure's X20 FlashArrays for both sites. The university wanted to use its own staff [...]