IBRIX® Inc., the leader in scalable file serving solutions, today announced that Symplicity, a provider of software and Web-based portals that streamline job recruiting operations, has selected IBRIX Fusion™ to speed data throughput and simplify file management for its nearly 400+ hosted customer systems. IBRIX’s software-based file system enables Symplicity to rapidly and reliably scale their data storage infrastructure to support peak recruitment periods that require increased bandwidth and throughput performance. As a result, Symplicity is able to expand its customer base while confidently meeting Service Level Agreements.
Through its Career Services Management System™ (CSM), Symplicity offers an integrated solution for managing job postings and scheduling interviews for its roster of education, government and commercial customers. Accessing career information online and in real-time is critical for the recruiters, graduating students and potential employers that rely on CSM. Each September, as campus recruiting activities heat up, Symplicity fields as much as a five-fold increase in data requests to service millions of daily Web views. To meet their evolving business requirements, Symplicity needed to streamline its IT infrastructure and address mounting performance and instability problems caused by a legacy Network File System that taxed network resources with costly and unplanned outages.
“During key recruitment periods, we add customers at a very rapid pace, placing considerable strain on the back-end storage. Our previous file system couldn’t handle that volume of activity, and we quickly realized we needed to do something fast to ensure our customers’ online experience remained positive,” said Alok Dhir, Chief Technology Officer at Symplicity. “By installing IBRIX, we were able to alleviate our data bottleneck without ripping apart our storage environment. The nice thing about IBRIX is that we can grow our IT infrastructure in multiple dimensions by scaling IOPs, bandwidth, or storage capacity. This past September was the first time in a couple of years that I didn’t have to think about our ability to meet the performance requirements. It has been a brilliant outcome.”
Symplicity deployed the IBRIX Fusion file system on Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1950 servers managing 10 terabytes of EMC® CLARiiON® CX3-20 storage. The solution services 60 client nodes within Symplicity’s existing SAN environment. The joint solution allows Symplicity to fully utilize its existing hardware and perform upgrades with minimal or no downtime. Symplicity is able to perform full data backups in half the time of its previous solution, ensuring data integrity and high availability.
“The speed with which successful Internet businesses explode—and the ‘always online’ nature of content—affords companies no time to re-architect and re-implement their storage solution mid-stream,” said Milan Shetti, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at IBRIX. “By choosing IBRIX, Symplicity alleviated its performance and instability challenges, and, in turn, gained a solid foundation from which they can add new customers and revenue.”
About Symplicity
Symplicity is a leading provider of information technology solutions in the education and government sectors. Since 1996, thousands of organizations have used Symplicity's technology to enhance their business processes. Symplicity has a diverse product line ranging from SympleObjects—the object based application framework, to end-to-end vertical solutions for the higher education, government and commercial marketplace.
Symplicity serves hundreds of universities, companies and dozens of government agencies including: the US Army, US Air Force, NASA, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, General Services Administration, and Small Business Administration. For more information, visit http://www.symplicity.com.
About IBRIX, Inc.
IBRIX® delivers increased application performance to enterprise computing environments utilizing a unique parallel file serving solution. IBRIX Fusion™ is comprised of a single namespace parallel file system, a scalable volume manager, high availability features, and a comprehensive management interface. IBRIX Fusion is the most scalable, economical, multipurpose file serving solution available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise computing environments. Based on IBRIX’s patented Segmented File System™, IBRIX Fusion increases application performance, simplifies administration, and reduces total cost of ownership. The IBRIX Fusion file serving solution is available through leading OEMs. For more information, visit http://www.ibrix.com.