Times Internet

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About the business

Times Internet is the largest digital products company and the digital venture of Times of India.

The Times Group is a long-standing leader in the print business, as well as an emerging leader in all other forms of media, including radio, TV, magazines, out of the home, and more. The Group's key brands include The Times of India, the world's largest broadsheet English daily; The Economic Times, India's largest (and the world's second largest) financial daily; Femina, India's largest women's magazine; Filmfare, India's largest English film magazine; Radio Mirchi, India's largest FM radio network; Times Now and ET Now, India's leading English news and business news channels and Zoom, a leading general entertainment channel.

Business Needs / Situation

Customer’s objective
Customer’s 24X7 Online application needs fail-proof storage. Stack Holders using the app (Multiple concurrent Online & offline users) should have a seamless experience.

Challenges faced by the customer

Current storage is not able to cater to the required performance
Storage expansion issue
Legacy Hardware maintenance
Current storage is End Of Life
Management complexity

Operational Expectations:

Storage with future scalability
No performance issue
No downtime to update the software
Easy to manage
Storage utilization & resources consumption reports characterizing workflow for effective sizing and planning of the storage infrastructure.
The ability to scale to as per needs and mix and match applications within the same hardware

Solution

The solution recommended and why

Isilon storage

Isilon Scale-out NAS – storage can be easily expanded by adding addition node on the fly
Maximum uptime with redundant hardware and fault tolerance feature
Performance increases with an increase in capacity
Non-disruptive upgrades and rollback
Easy to manage - No storage admin require to manage Isilon storage
Monitoring & reporting for future storage expansion planning
Able to handle mix and match workloads in the same storage with Hybrid configuration
Replication feature

Our Approach

Scale-Out NAS (Isilon) integrated into the customer’s existing network
Seamless Data migration from old storage to new storage
Configure NAS share as per current workflow
Configured solutions keeping security best practices in mind

Implementation / Deployment

Step by step procedure carried out by our engineer

Customer Kick of meeting for activity schedule
Documented data to be migrated from old storage to Isilon
Rack stack of Isilon nodes & switches
Power, network connectivity ( Frontend and backend traffic)
Configured cluster
Updated OneFS version
Created NAS users & shares
Configured FTP users and shares
Migrated data from old storage to new storage with customized scrips
Configured InsightIQ for monitoring and reporting

Improvements brought by the solution

High-performance NAS along with greater scalability
Eased Administrative Burden
Advanced monitoring and reporting tools to identify performance bottlenecks in workflows and minimize the amount of high-performance storage required in your environment.
InsightIQ provides advanced analytics to optimize applications, correlate workflow and network events, and accurately forecast your future storage needs.
Each node contribute the network path to get the maximum performance for simultaneous share access on the network

Why New Era?

Founded in 2001 with a mission to make you experience IT, New Era is now a leading SI and Premium Solution Provider in the IT space. With a lean and mean workforce of 100+ employees, we are dedicated to providing the most straightforward solutions with the latest technology, to give your business a boost.

Being one of the Top Intel Platinum Partners and partners with most of the renowned IT companies across the country, we take privilege in providing solutions that are proven world over. Our focus is to provide professional services, and our approach is entirely customer oriented.

At New Era, we strive to be a trusted partner in the IT infrastructure and services arena. We are committed to achieving your business objectives, by delivering professional services and adopting innovative technologies.

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