In our most recent PodMagic episode, The Reality of IT/OT Convergence in Manufacturing, host Scott Mann, SVP Global Sales at StorMagic, sat down with Christopher "Chris" Lloyd, Chief Solutions and Technology Officer, SYSPRO. The wide-ranging conversation moved from IT/OT convergence and workload placement through to the true cost of downtime, cybersecurity on the shop floor, and where AI realistically fits [...]
Konstantin Lautenschläger | IT-Administratior “SvSAN is uncomplicated and relatively flexible. It has a strong compatibility with older systems and ensures stability in such environments.” WATCH
Hear from Konstantin Lautenschläger, IT-Administratior at Beton Kemmler GmbH, as he shares his experience with StorMagic SvSAN - how it addressed the problems his organization was facing, and why he would recommend StorMagic to others. LEARN MORE ABOUT SvSAN
Alexandra Körner | Head of IT “WST was able to significantly reduce costs and add 100% uptime between our two datacenters by moving to StorMagic SvSAN. We’ve also been able to eliminate vendor lock-in thanks to SvSAN’s compatibility with all storage types, hardware and hypervisors. Our future costs have been significantly reduced without sacrificing performance, and budgets are now much [...]
Matthias Böhler | CEO “StorMagic SvSAN is a “set and forget” solution that delivers the best price for performance point in today’s market, and is an ideal fit for every small to medium-sized enterprise. SvSAN allowed us to maximize our budget and achieve 100% uptime, which lets us sleep more soundly at night.” CASE STUDY
Business Challenge: WST Präzisionstechnik GmbH is a leading manufacturer of milled and turned parts and supplies in the German market. It specializes in the production of synchronous machining tools, producing 25 million parts in 1,500 custom designs annually. WST previously used DataCore SANsymphony to store application data from key IT sources, including its CRM, SQL databases, file services, telecommunication [...]
Business Challenge: Witholz is a modern production and service company, specializing in timber construction, and the production of wooden beams. The manufacturer delivers everything from one-off bespoke orders to mass produced wood, and a variety of related joinery components, all from a single source. Witholz GmbH previously used a physical SAN, an HPE MSA 2040 high-performance storage array, for [...]
StorMagic SvSAN is trusted by many manufacturers in Germany to keep production lines running and factories operational. Our German manufacturing infographic below explains why five of them chose SvSAN. In addition to the five examples in the infographic below, read through more of our manufacturing case studies such as Ontex BVBA, Keiser Corp and CAE S.p.A. For more information on [...]
Industrial IoT is a natural extension of historical process control systems that have dominated factory floors for decades. In recent years, the increase in sensors and devices to monitor machinery and outputs has meant manufacturers are now moving from monitoring individual things, to monitoring entire processes from one screen. The result is the invention of industrial IoT as a catch-all [...]
There is much talk about the digital transformation of manufacturing – Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Factories, etc. – and rightfully so. These transitions and transformations are, and will be, having major implications for manufacturers of all types and sizes. At the beginning, end, and throughout these changes and implementations there is one common denominator – data, and its [...]
As manufacturers modernize their operations, it is crucial that they find new ways to address the unique and ever-present challenges of running at the edge. The rapid development of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT), which requires high levels of reliability, performance, and cost efficiency, has led to edge computing in manufacturing growing in importance over the past [...]
A highly available virtual SAN product such as SvSAN ensures manufacturing facilities do not suffer from crippling periods of downtime that interrupt production flows and processes, and ultimately impact revenue. ERP systems, robot control and monitoring, building automation, forklift telemetry, video surveillance, and IoT are all examples of onsite applications that might require local storage and data processing. Our infographic [...]
About Eugen Forschner GmbH Eugen Forschner GmbH develops and designs technology for the automotive industries, prepares it for series production and makes it available worldwide. It is a manufacturer of many products, including technology for high voltage systems, cabling systems and scr-systems. Business Challenge: Forschner previously used a physical SAN solution, the HPE MSA, a high performance storage array [...]
StorMagic SvSAN has been deployed by manufacturing organizations around the world in all sorts of sectors, from automotive to electronics, appliances to fabrics. We sat down with some of them to understand why they chose SvSAN to provide highly available shared storage on their factory floors, and the benefits they’ve seen as a result. Browse through the quotes in the [...]
Andreas Pirner | IT Manager “Migrating existing environments can often present challenges and introduce new risks to organizations of any size. However, with StorMagic, we were thrilled to be able to conduct and complete our installation with zero interruptions, downtime or restrictions for our employees. With StorMagic, we have eliminated any single point of failure and experienced 100 percent uptime, [...]
Timo Hauke | IT Director “With SvSAN, TDK offices are now running continuously and productivity has significantly increased for salespeople and the IT team that supports them.” CASE STUDY
David Tourny | Responsible for IT “As the sole IT support resource for the Eeklo factory, it is my responsibility to ensure we have real-time failover so that production is never interrupted. StorMagic SvSAN gives me this confidence. We have 23 production lines that need to remain operational day and night. If anything should go wrong and a robot stops [...]
Gus Gustafson | Information Systems Manager “The primary benefit of StorMagic SvSAN is redundant storage and physical space between the servers. We have a very large factory and the servers are in opposite corners of the building – rather than housed in one room, which would be a disaster if there was a fire or an accident.” CASE STUDY
Alexander Bunk | CIO “Once it became clear that StorMagic SvSAN offers exactly the functionality we needed, Thomas-Krenn really caught our attention as we moved into the offer phase. This is what high availability and hyperconvergence should be like: uncomplicated installation and maintenance, available when needed and otherwise running reliably and quietly in the background.” CASE STUDY
Dirk Mueller | IT Manager “StorMagic SvSAN makes life much easier; we are achieving 100% continuous uptime which is mandatory for our 24x7x365 live production environment. Fitesa instantly integrated simplicity and removed complexities with StorMagic’s highly available, easy to manage and affordable virtual SAN.” CASE STUDY
Fabio Prosperi | Systems Information Manager “Our StorMagic SvSAN cluster was deployed and fully operational in less than two hours. We are able to remotely manage the entire system, which is a major improvement and time saver over traditional, physical SAN cluster management. CAE is saving space, money and time: we eliminated four rack units, reduced power supply requirements by [...]
Juan Pablo Mena | Jefe de Producción “We have a number of security applications and needed a solution that could maintain high levels of uptime. We’re very positive about StorMagic SvSAN. It runs well and we’ve had no problems since deployment.”
Barry Nelson | I.T. Manager “Previously we had a Dell Physical SAN but when our support ran out we looked at other options. We looked at other virtual SAN solutions, but unlike the others StorMagic SvSAN ticked all our boxes: low support cost, low outlay cost and reliability. When contacting support during setup they helped us out straight away. We’re [...]
Read the full Rommelsbacher case study here.
Read the full FASTER case study here.
Read the full CAE S.p.A. case study here.
Read the full Fitesa Germany case study here.
Read the full Hermann Bantleon case study here.
Read the full TDK Europe case study here.
Read the full Keiser Corporation case study here.
Read the full Ontex case study here.