A change in storage vendor was key to achieving high speed, reliable storage for AccessIT

AccessIT is based in Morristown, New Jersey. The company also provides related services to help theaters track the planning and profitability of movies, among other things. Central to the company's business plan is its Internet data center facilities to help store and manage and move digital content to subscriber sites quickly and efficiently.

And, of course, storage plays heavily in the scenario, especially for such large files as movies and educational video. Erik will talk more about the storage piece of what AccessIT is doing and will explain why the company recently changed storage providers.

Johanna Ambrosio: Erik, welcome and thank you for being here today.

Erik Levitt: Thank you.

Ambrosio: I was hoping you could describe more about your Internet data center facilities, what are they and how many of them are there?

Levitt: Johanna, we have 10 Internet data centers around the country: five on the East, three in the Midwest, Los Angeles, and one in Texas. The data centers are for primary colocation and disaster recovery for carriers, corporate clients, law firms, and a number of other service providers.

Ambrosio: And so, how does storage fit into that? How much are you managing currently and what is that growth curve look like over the next year or two?

Levitt: Well, we have storage in our Los Angeles data center and in our Brooklyn facility here in the East Coast. We use a Magnitude Xiotech 3D array and that array has, in the East Coast, 15 terabytes of storage, on the West Coast about 7 terabytes of storage. We have a variety of companies on the array including financial and legal customers on the East Coast and on the West Coast we use the array as a launch point for our digital cinema offering.

Ambrosio: Okay. I understand you recently changed storage providers. Could you tell us what you were doing and why you made the switch?

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