Client Summary

Evolution Securities, the investment banking business of Evolution Group Plc, is one of the leading and most active investment banks in the UK, advising small and mid cap companies, who are either seeking to list or who are already listed on the London Stock Exchange Full List or AIM.. Read Full Case Study (910KB)

Requirement Summary

To meet the demands of its expanding business, Evolution Securities enlisted the help of consultancy partner Skye Consult to design and implement a large, readily available, replicated storage soluon that could support all of its operations. Evolution Securities initially requested an extensive review process to be completed by Skye Consult profiling all of the leading storage solutions available. Read Full Case Study (910KB)

Solution Summary

Out of the options recommended by Skye, Evolution Securities chose to implement the Dell EqualLogic PeerStorage™ Series family of iSCSI self-managing storage arrays, over the more conventional enterprise solution of Fibre channel technology.

The unique Peer Storage™ architecture consolidates all storage resources into an easy-to-manage tiered pool of storage, securely accessed by servers across a standard Ethernet network.

The SAN solution consists of multiple Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays, providing a large amount of tiered SAS and SATA storage, and is reported to be one of the largest Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN installationsin the UK.

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