| Specifications | Marketing firm switches to Thecus network-attached storage device for backup Intel_Thecus_HBD_Case Study Intel; Thecus; HB Design; NAS; network-attached storage; archiving; archival; backup Intel Corporation |
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| Specifications | Marketing firm switches to Thecus network-attached storage device for backup Intel_Thecus_HBD_Case Study Intel; Thecus; HB Design; NAS; network-attached storage; archiving; archival; backup Intel Corporation |
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| Specifications | Marketing firm switches to Thecus network-attached storage device for backup Intel_Thecus_HBD_Case Study Intel; Thecus; HB Design; NAS; network-attached storage; archiving; archival; backup Intel Corporation |
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| Content | Files Keep Getting Bigger HB Design is a marketing communications firm in Portland, Oregon, that helps Fortune 500 and small businesses alike define and develop visual and messaging brand strategies. The firm has 19 employees and a project office in Chandler, Arizona. About half of the firm’s computers are Windows* operating system-based PCs, used by web developers, account managers, and project managers, and half are Apple* computers used by designers. Most of the company’s files are enormous media files—some up to a half gigabyte—that just keep getting bigger. “Every year, the files get larger as images become higher resolution and animations become more complex,” says Chris Barry, Network Administrator and Web Developer at HB Design. “We have a whole room full of production servers that store jobs we’re working on day to day, and we need to keep those servers at peak performance for everyday use.” Eating Up Creative Time HB Design preserved its production servers by copying finished jobs onto DVDs for archival storage. However, moving files on and off DVDs consumed a lot of time— more than two hours per DVD. Some animations consumed 10 or more DVDs, which meant that the archival staff spent hours and hours copying files, duplicating the disc, and verifying data integrity. When employees needed to pull an old job, more time was needed to check out the needed DVDs and reload the job onto the production server and their own computer. “Chris and other staff members were spending about 10 hours a month burning DVDs, which was time not spent on client projects,” says Noma Hanlon, President of HB Design. “We wanted to minimize the time spent on backup and maximize staff time doing web development and project management.” Sometimes, a DVD would be misplaced, not burn properly, or fail. One time, the DVD manufacturer notified the firm that “DVD rot” had affected its product, and the agency had to reburn all its archival DVDs—which took the better part of a weekend. High-Capacity Plug-In Solution In early 2011, HB Design began looking for a better archival solution. “The next logical step was to go to Blu-Ray,* which would give us more capacity per disk but still saddle us with all the copying time and the reliability pitfalls of optical disks,” Barry says. Moving to an archival server with hard drives was another alternative, but servers are expensive, take time to set up, and require operating system licenses. HB Design needed a storage solution that would work with its Windows-based network, provide enough bandwidth to transfer files quickly, and offer enough storage space (at least 10 terabytes) to meet the agency’s future needs. HB Design ultimately settled on the Thecus® N4200PRO network-attached storage (NAS) device. The Thecus N4200PRO is based on the Intel® Atom™ processor, with 1 gigabyte of DDR3 RAM. “With an Intel processor inside, file transfers are blazingly fast,” Barry says. “The system doesn’t break a sweat when you’re transferring files to it.” Thecus gave HB Design an inexpensive way to get terabytes of storage, quickly. “The NAS unit is ready to go, out of the box,” says Robert Wallace, Technical Director at HB Design. “The operating system is pre-installed, and all the services are ready to go. You load the hard drives [purchased separately], plug it in, log into the web-based management console, and configure the storage you need. It took Chris 20 minutes to set it up.” TESTIMONIAL Network-Attached Storage “ We’ve reduced the time spent on backup by 85 percent. This gives my staff more time for creative work.” – Noma Hanlon, President, HB Design Marketing firm switches from DVDs to Thecus network-attached storage device for backup; slashes archival work time by 85 percent, improves reliability, gains terabytes of growing room. The staff at HB Design hated being pulled away from creative work to perform the tedious and time- consuming job of archiving. They spent hours each week manually copying project files to DVDs when they would rather have been coming up with the next big idea for clients. |
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