By any measure, that's a colossus of important financial data -- and it's now running on a storage area network (SAN).
The DTCC decided on a SAN to make better use of its technical personnel and storage resources, spokespeople say. Like other companies, it found that a huge percentage of its storage costs went to managing the data from isolated, direct-attached storage devices. As data grew, so did the costs of maintaining it.
We couldnt keep pace with the growth of our data, says a DTCC official. In four months, the companys data storage requirements increased 400 percent. The only way to get a handle on this growth was to move storage onto a scaleable network, he says.
With the new SAN infrastructure, DTCC says it manages four times as much data with the same number of data administrators.
The DTCC has connected its SAN across a metro optical network to enable backup across remote sites. This eliminates the need for expensive, offsite data storage, such as a giant EMC Corp. system, and it means we can increase capacity for users and applications as needed, the DTCC official said.
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