Clabber Girl saves $50K by deploying Scale Computing's storage combined with VMware's vSphere 4

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The Clabber Girl Corporation, manufacturer of Clabber Girl Baking Powder, transitioned from an aging physical server infrastructure with direct attached disk to a virtual infrastructure with shared storage. Their choice of a scale-out, unified Scale Computing storage cluster was an essential component to achieve high availability for critical business applications.

Introduction
In 1879, Hulman & Co., a wholesale grocery business, located in Terre Haute, Indiana, introduced their manufactured baking powder and in 1899 created the Clabber brand. Today, Clabber Girl Baking Powder is the No. 1 baking powder sold to consumers, a position that is not surprising given Clabber Girl's commitment to quality. In 2009, Clabber Girl achieved a level-3 'excellent' rating with the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Institute, which represents a series of initiatives that improved manufacturing practices and operations. Over the years, the Hulman & Co. has expanded its family of businesses, notably in 1945 when Tony Hulman Jr. purchased the run down Indianapolis Motor Speedway with intentions to advertise the Clabber Girl brand. Through expansion, Clabber Girl Corporation has developed new commercial and wholesale markets in over 40 countries for an extended line of baking ingredients and mixes that include corn starches, cookie mixes, gelatins, puddings, flans and gourmet coffees. With these expansions, Clabber Girl transitioned from a paper-based business to fully-computerized operations that increased the manageability of the business, but also made the business dependent on keeping complex computer systems up and running.

Challenge
By 2009, the fear of downtime and inefficient data recovery for Clabber Girl was impacting the manageability of the IT environment for Jason Morrison, Clabber Girl Systems Administrator. Recovery of systems relied fully on tape backups of 1.2 terabytes of data spread across 12 servers. Data growth was being accelerated by the graphic design department responsible for branding an increasingly large
line of products. When the time came to renew maintenance on many of the servers in the data center, Tom Byerley, with sister company
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), considered the costs and benefits of moving forward with a virtualization project to address
maintenance costs and application availability. As part of that project, Clabber Girl would also need to implement a shared storage system to enable the availability features of the virtualization platform. Most challenging, the storage would need to be highly available itself, while fitting within the budget.

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