Customer Solutions

Broadleaf has a broad range of customers in a variety of industries ranging from professional services, accounting, architecture, law, healthcare, to manufacturing and the government sector. While the industries our customers are in are diverse, they all face complex data protection and storage issues that Broadleaf's expert engineers can solve.

Some recent case studies:

ARCHEON
EqualLogic/Riverbed Replication Optimization

ARCHEON Saves the Day

Data protection never goes out of style, because you never know when disaster will strike. Cecil Baker & Associates, an architectural firm in the Philadelphia area, recently found out just how valuable the ARCHEON data protection service was when their main server unexpectedly suffered a hardware failure on a Monday morning. Instead of three days of idle time while the server was repaired, Cecil Baker's staff was productive within the hour, working from the latest files located on the ARCHEON data protection server.

Ally Fazio from Cecil Baker was thrilled, "I was able to access the ARCHEON network share using standard Microsoft tools. The Broadleaf staff talked me through the setup so well I was able to help the rest of the office connect to the shares within minutes. The ARCHEON network shares were identical to how we normally accessed the files so there was no learning curve or wasted time."

Paul Buli from Parallel Edge, one of Broadleaf's business alliance partners who supports Cecil Baker, was also pleased. "Broadleaf was very responsive in the crisis, staying on top of the situation until we were sure that they were productive again."

To find out more about how you can protect your data both on-site and off-site, so you will be ready for that inevitable "oops", contact Broadleaf Services sales for more information.

Optimizing Remote Replication over the WAN with Riverbed and EqualLogic

To meet best practice business continuity and disaster recovery business goals, off-site replication of critical servers and data is quickly becoming the gold standard recommended practice. However, recurring WAN circuit costs can be significant, so it is critical to minimize contracted WAN bandwidth just enough to provide consistent remote replicas that meet your business continuity service level agreement specifications.

This pilot study examined the effectiveness of combining Riverbed Steelhead WAN optimization appliances with EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN replication traffic transported over limited bandwidth WAN circuits.

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Case Study: Optimizing WAN Replication (PDF, 271 KB).