Susquehanna International Group Takes NetApp Performance to the Next Level with Tek-Tools. Check it out:
DALLAS --(Business Wire)-- Performance -- it matters in the fast-paced and volatile world of business and finance. To maximize their investment in NetApp and to ensure optimal performance, the Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG), a leading institutional sales, research, investment banking, and market making firm, has chosen StorageProfiler, Tek-Tools' award-winning storage monitoring and reporting suite, for global management of its Network Appliance environment. SIG will use StorageProfiler to manage its NetApp installations in offices throughout the world including the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Faced with the challenge of optimizing performance and management across a number of distributed NetApp filers that hold mission critical data, SIG needed a secure, and scalable monitoring and reporting solution that could meet their performance needs based on increasing storage growth. To address this challenge, SIG implemented the StorageProfiler for NetApp module to enhance management reporting and performance analysis. SIG's StorageProfiler implementation brings real-time monitoring coupled with historical trend analysis and a normalized view of the entire enterprise via a single pane-of-glass, enabling the IT organization to proactively manage storage growth and avoid costly outages.
According to Norbert Thier, Manager of Server Systems at SIG, the key reason the firm chose StorageProfiler was to simplify the management of its NetApp infrastructure, which is quite comprehensive. "With StorageProfiler, we have significantly reduced the time we spend on forecasting and capacity planning, and the level of automation has dramatically increased our accuracy," said Thier.
"StorageProfiler gives us one platform in which to extract information on all NetApp filers throughout the organization. From our systems administrators to our management team, we now have one system that will be used for day-to-day operations, as well as for budgeting and auditing purposes," continued Thier. "From what we were doing previously, that's a fantastic leap forward."
"By implementing StorageProfiler's NetApp module, we are able to deliver rich, timely reporting and analysis capabilities to key business areas that are critical to our operations," concluded Thier. "Not only were we able to improve performance and drive down costs, but the addition of Profiler also enabled us to add business intelligence views that enhance managing our storage."
"SIG is truly a leader in worldwide financial markets, and as such, both the performance and reliability of its IT infrastructure is key to maintaining their strategic competitive advantage," said Curt Simmons, Vice President of Sales at Tek-Tools. "At the end of the day, it's about the availability of mission-critical applications and the associated data that drives the firm's business. What SIG and Tek-Tools are doing together is a clear indication of the necessity to gain visibility into the storage infrastructure, understand usage patterns, and mitigate the risk of system outages to ensure availability of the systems that support the firm's core business."
About the Susquehanna International Group
The Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG) is a leading institutional sales, research, investment banking and market making firm. For institutional investors, SIG offers brokerage in listed and NASDAQ stocks, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), options, program trading and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), as well as differentiated equity research. For corporate clients, SIG offers a range of traditional investment banking services. SIG encompasses a market making operation in over 6,000 stocks, is among the nation's largest option market makers, is the leading sector index options trading firm and is one of the largest liquidity providers in ETFs. SIG has offices in Bala Cynwyd, Boston, Chicago, Dublin, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai, Stamford and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.sig.com. Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG) is comprised of a number of trading and investment related entities under common control.
About Tek-Tools
Tek-Tools Software, Inc. is the recognized leader in the storage resource management space. Tek-Tools' Profiler Suite is a high-performance, modular, Web-based, real-time and historical resource reporting application targeting DAS, NAS, SAN, database, and backup pain points in customer environments. Tek-Tools' headquarters are located at 4020 McEwen Dr., Suite 105, in Dallas, Texas 75244, (972) 980-2890, and on the Web at www.tek-tools.com.
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