Dave Vellante talks to Jack Rahner, VP of IT at Alphastaff along with Jason Sommer of Aethion Systems about VMWare and their choice to use Compellent for their Virtualized Environments.
Dave asks Jack to "paint a picture" of the operation of his company, Alphastaff; things such as the size, servers, terabytes, amongst other things of that nature. Jack responds by saying Alphastaff is a pretty small company, having started out seven years prior to this interview with two refurbished Dell servers, although the company itself is actually closer to twelve years old.
Now they have roughly 200 virtualized servers, mostly on Compellent.
Jack notes that, when you are using tiered architecture and virtualization, it is fairly easy to get up to one hundred servers overnight.
Asked about their physical servers and storage size and capacity, Jack humbly acknowledged he is not the most technical, but guages his company at about a 7 to 1 ratio and five hundred terabytes. Jack goes on to tell, Alphastaff is about 99% virtualized; "everything that can be virtualized, has been done".
Things that require smart cards or otherwise,that can not be virtualized at the moment, have not been due to "configuration nuances".
Dave moves on to Jason Sommer, President of Aethion Systems, asking for his somewhat broader perspective, being that his knowledge stems from being, not just a consumer of storage and systems (namely Compellent), but additionally, an integrator and reseller of those. In response, Jason Sommer breaks down his reasoning for his decision to become a reseller of Compellent, as a customer.
At the time when Aethion Systems was representing a client, a hedge fund called Passport Capital, Aethion Systems was a customer of Compellent and needed Virtualized Storage to complement their virtualized server (a service provided by VMWare). Apparently, Jason Sommer found Compellent "compelling" enough to meet his needs.
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Dave Vellante talks to Jack Rahner, VP of IT at Alphastaff along with Jason Sommer of Aethion Systems about VMWare and their choice to use Compellent for their Virtualized Environments.
Dave asks Jack to "paint a picture" of the operation of his company, Alphastaff; things such as the size, servers, terabytes, amongst other things of that nature. Jack responds by saying Alphastaff is a pretty small company, having started out seven years prior to this interview with two refurbished Dell servers, although the company itself is actually closer to twelve years old.
Now they have roughly 200 virtualized servers, mostly on Compellent.
Jack notes that, when you are using tiered architecture and virtualization, it is fairly easy to get up to one hundred servers overnight.
Asked about their physical servers and storage size and capacity, Jack humbly acknowledged he is not the most technical, but guages his company at about a 7 to 1 ratio and five hundred terabytes. Jack goes on to tell, Alphastaff is about 99% virtualized; "everything that can be virtualized, has been done".
Things that require smart cards or otherwise,that can not be virtualized at the moment, have not been due to "configuration nuances".
Dave moves on to Jason Sommer, President of Aethion Systems, asking for his somewhat broader perspective, being that his knowledge stems from being, not just a consumer of storage and systems (namely Compellent), but additionally, an integrator and reseller of those. In response, Jason Sommer breaks down his reasoning for his decision to become a reseller of Compellent, as a customer.
At the time when Aethion Systems was representing a client, a hedge fund called Passport Capital, Aethion Systems was a customer of Compellent and needed Virtualized Storage to complement their virtualized server (a service provided by VMWare). Apparently, Jason Sommer found Compellent "compelling" enough to meet his needs.
