Brivo
Date
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5/1/2010
Our partners at Dell did anything and everything we needed to ensure the timely development and success of OVR — their contributions were outstanding.
— Bill Savage, vice president of operations, Brivo, United States
Challenge
To cost-effectively deploy a new online video recorder (OVR WebService™) solution, Brivo needed a supporting architecture that would make the hosted service affordable to customers and profitable for Brivo. The company determined that this would not be possible using a traditional approach with dedicated physical servers and a Fibre Channel SAN.Solution
Deploy a virtualized environment using VMware® software on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, with Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage providing the necessary capacity and performance for a hosted video solution.Benefits
• Met 6-week deadline to debut new product at industry trade show• 67 percent power savings over nonvirtualized system (4 kW versus 12 kW)
• Power savings at main data center justified cost of virtualization
• 48TB of disks fit in 4U rack space
• Entire footprint for OVR WebService solution fits in one rack
• Scalable storage platform can accommodate growth while maintaining performance
