Ben Higginbotham
Director of New Technology, WhereToLive.com
WhereToLive.com has built a comprehensive suite of Web-based productivity tools to provide real estate brokers with lead generation, listing distribution, contact management, online marketing and more. But not long ago, the two-person IT team manually managed terabytes of digital images—held in millions of tiny files—that changed each time a property was listed, changed or sold. Director of New Technology, Ben Higginbotham installed a Dell Fluid Data™ architecture that would significantly improve its storage efficiency, productivity and scalability. Today, more than 90 percent of the firm’s data resides on lower-cost drives and it has delayed disk purchases for more than a year.
Key Reasons for Selecting Dell Compellent
- No need for specialized staff skills to accomplish advanced storage management tasks
- Truly pay-as-you-grow system eliminates wasted disk space and leverages storage price erosion
- Deliver uninterrupted data access and continuous data protection without costly overhead
- Easily integrate new technologies without replacing or discarding your existing investment
- Automatically classify and migrate data to the optimum tier of storage based on usage
- Improve performance by using the fastest disks for the most critical data