Telecom Lead America: Watson, Farley & Williams,
an international law firm has selected Brocade to deliver a
high-performance data center networking solution based on Brocade VDX 6720
Data Center Switches.
The law firm selected Brocade to address IT challenges
resulting from business growth and international expansion.
The firm deployed two Brocade VDX 6720 switches for
resiliency. Deployed at the law firm’s London headquarters, the new
infrastructure delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and underpins the
firm’s virtualized data center strategy.
“The Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches have solved
Watson, Farley & Williams’ storage network performance issues with the
virtualized servers now responding much better. The firm’s requirements have
been met and the feedback we have received is that the installation has
practically been an ‘install and forget’ process — a perfect outcome given law
firms can’t tolerate any systems downtime,” said Marcus Jewell, country
manager UK/Ireland at Brocade.
The new data center network deployment will provide the
performance and resilience needed to support higher traffic and daily data
volumes, but will also give Watson, Farley & Williams the long-term
flexibility and capacity it needs as the business expands.
“Every three years, we replace our storage to add more
capacity given we are supporting more users and more locations. During this
particular cycle, all three elements were upgraded — storage, servers and the
network — in order to improve the performance of our virtualized data center,”
said Richard Latham, the firm’s IT manager.
Watson, Farley & Williams employs 630 staff located
across 13 worldwide offices that provide a wide range of legal services in
various industry sectors such as finance and investment, maritime, energy,
natural resources, transport, property and technology.
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