The Dolls House Emporium (www.dollshouse.com), the world's leading
supplier of doll's houses and miniatures, has chosen Griffin Internet's
Storage Area Network (SAN) for all their hosting and storage
requirements. The company, which sells millions of its products
worldwide via the web, needed a scaleable storage solution to house all
their critical and non critical business data and a resilient business
continuity plan in case of hardware failures.
The Dolls House Emporium is a mail order and online business used
by collectors and enthusiasts in the UK and all over the world. The
company will use Griffin Internet's SAN to host and store critical stock
and customer account information which is constantly being updated with
live information via its website. Using Griffin's Leicester Data
Centre, The Dolls House Emporium now has a scaleable storage solution
which is able to cope with managing and protecting the constant growth
in data across the organisation. In case of disaster, the company can
use Griffin's unique snapshot functionality to ensure that the business
can be operational immediately without the loss of any business critical
information.
Steve Morely, IT Manager, The Dolls House Emporium: "Our website
sales contribute to almost half of our business and we cannot afford for
it to go down. Griffin Internet's solution ensures that if there is a
hardware failure the site can be up and running in minutes rather than
days without the loss of critical data. It is that kind of peace of mind
which is invaluable to a business like ours."
The SANServe solution has been built on a state of the art IP Storage
Area Network (IP SAN) which has recently been deployed across the
Griffin national MPLS network into two separate hosting centres. The
SANServe range of services has been developed in response to the demand
for a hosting solution to meet the SME IT Manager's increasing need for
SLA backed reliability whilst retaining the ability to scale. Griffin's
SAN offers an unrivalled 100% business reliability guarantee. The
SANServe range of services provides a level of reliability, scalability
and performance that has never before been available in the SME
marketplace.
John Dawson, Managing Director, Griffin Internet added: "We are
delighted that the Dolls House has chosen SANServe as their hosted
storage solution. For companies that depend on e-commerce solutions for
their bottom line, the threat of disasters and hardware failures is an
ever present danger. Our SANServe removes the need for server-specific
hard disk storage and the mirrored arrays of storage ensure that 100% of
a companies data is backed up 100% of the time".