Law firm uses NexGen hybrid array to keep cases moving

Chief Information Officer Rich Wills said he doesn't consider his law firm on the cutting edge of technology. But rapid data growth pushed Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK) to buy a hybrid flash array from startup NexGen Storage Inc. when traditional hard drive arrays failed to keep up with his IOPS requirements.

"We're a law firm," Wills said. "We don't really do new stuff. Cutting-edge [technology] and law firms do not necessarily exist in the same technology plan."

However, data growth and e-discovery are common in law firms, and that was the case with Cincinnati, Ohio-based KMK.

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Nimble Storage hybrid array improves law firm's VDI performance

When traditional spinning disk arrays came up short on performance for its virtual desktop infrastructure, Minneapolis-based law firm Lindquist & Vennum switched to a hybrid array from Nimble Storage Inc.

The Nimble Storage hybrid array's solid-state drives (SSDs) provide enough performance for the company's 350 persistent virtual desktops, as well as other applications.

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Nimble builds hybrid solid-state storage to scale

Nimble Storage this week adopted a scale-out architecture for its hybrid solid-state drive (SSD) iSCSI SAN arrays, adding a performance platform and a series of expansion shelves to grow capacity. The CS400 series of arrays and ES expansion shelves are the key hardware pieces of what Nimble calls a "scale to fit" architecture. The new Nimble OS 2.0 enables scale-out clustering with any of the vendor's storage products. Read more