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Nova, the third largest Credit card processor in the U.S., teamed up with the Bank of Ireland, creating a joint venture company called Euroconex, whose aim is to offer end-to-end credit card transaction processing to acquiring banks, institutions and merchants in Ireland and the U.K. The company plans to expand throughout Europe, where the outsourcing of retail payment processing has been limited. Customer service activities depend on an entirely new IT system, and will enable storage of call-monitoring recordings and imaging documents.

Custom designed with the help of Datalink, a U.S.-based network integration consultancy, the system relies mainly on a Windows 2000 active directory infrastructure. Euroconex, however, also intends to use Oracle and Sun Microsystems' Java technology for its merchant accounting database, so it required a data storage system capable of servicing multiple platforms. The firm turned to MTI's Vivant 20 (V20) for multiplatform high-availability data storage--scalable and easy to manage--when its storage area network (SAN) in Atlanta was in need of more capacity.

The core of the company's SAN and network-attached solution (NAS) solutions, the Vivant V-series of products delivers continual access to online information, and is used in distributed computing environments, or as a focused storage solution for applications with specific processing requirements.

"Nobody else did Windows 2000 with a storage area network on the back end," says Matthew Yeager, senior systems architect at Datalink.

"We had already learned a lot from the system implementation in the States, and we wanted to take what we had learned from this project and bring it with us to the Irish development," says Gene Budd, director of technical support at Euroconex. "When we sourced a storage vendor in the States, we looked at all the main players and asked them to test the products over a two-month period. MTI provided us with the most cost-effective solution."

MTI provides support capabilities for comprehensive enterprise storage solutions for an increasing number of Global 2000 and high-growth Internet companies. For its total data storage solutions, a group of complementary services can be implemented, as needed. Euroconex decided to base the systems infrastructure around the Vivant 20, which provides a storage capacity of 1.5 TB, and upgrades to 4.5 TB with the adjunction of more disks.

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