Alcan Singen is an aluminum processing company and the largest factory within the Alcan group, producing rolled and extruded products, automobile components and systems, as well as other by-products.
The integration of new business units, and an increase in the number of new processing applications being added to the network, led to pressure on local performance and capacity bottlenecks in the company’s two separate data centers. It therefore became obvious that the storage architecture needed to be re-structured by consolidating all data into one storage area network (SAN) that could be centrally managed and made highly available.
In order to gain better management control of its IT resources, Alcan Singen decided to consolidate the two local storage networks into one company-wide SAN using DataCore’s SANsymphony.
In addition, the DataCore virtualization suite provides Alcan with thin provisioning, the ability to automate capacity management to applications. By using thin provisioning, Alcan can benefit from higher utilization of all of its available data storage resources, and achieve better load balancing of capacity usage across the SAN.
