Strategic Online Systems is proud to partner with Youth Villages as their managed service provider. Strategic Online Systems focuses on providing strategic planning, network support and equipment deployments for organizations that make a difference in their communities. In this ground breaking case study you will see the IT Challenge: Upgrade Youth Villages’ storage environment to a new software-defined solution with an eye for the future Strategic Online Systems used a HP LeftHand iSCSI SAN with Super Micro servers and Cisco switches for Youth Villages’ storage infrastructure. Their traditional SAN was rapidly aging, achieving only 5-10K IOPS. System performance was adversely affected during periods of peak demand on the servers.

Our goal for updating Youth Villages’ IT infrastructure, included:

• Utilize NVMe SSDs for caching
• Support for SQL (EMR database), Hyper-V, Exchange, VDI (9x RDS), and other enterprise applications
• Achieve at least 150K IOPS, to support 2800 users
• Support 40TB usable storage, growing to 100TB in three years
• Support for RDMA networking
• Include a management and monitoring software