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Monday, May 14, 2007
HOPKINTON: EMC Corporation announced on Friday that Timmons Group, a civil engineering and collaborative environmental design firm, has implemented EMC storage, software and services to manage the amounts of data generated by its large-scale geographic information systems (GIS).
Mark Farnsworth, director of Information Technology, Timmons Group, said, "As a civil engineering firm, we generate enormous GIS mapping files from real-time photography and 3-D virtual models for everything from utility poles to storm drains and underground pipelines.”
“A single project often requires 500 megabytes of data. Our EMC information infrastructure enables us store our data more intelligently to deliver targeted levels of performance and reliability to both our data-intensive applications and less demanding test and administrative environments."
Timmons Group initially replaced its HP storage area network (SAN) with an EMC CLARiiON SAN. As projects continued increasing in size and complexity, Timmons migrated to a dual-protocol EMC CLARiiON CX3-20 UltraScale FC/iSCSI system, to give customers the flexibility to easily and cost-effectively consolidate information, EMC said in a statement.
Bryan Moore, IT Infrastructure manager for Timmons Group, said, "With EMC, we can house multiple virtual servers and develop and test our applications on the fly."
"The costs savings are enormous, especially since it gives us the flexibility to handle whatever environments our clients might have in the future without deploying additional servers. As a result, we're able to reach out to a much broader client market," Moore added.
As part of its next generation backup strategy, Timmons Group also implemented the latest version of EMC Replication Manager software to facilitate faster backup and recovery processes, EMC statement added.
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