lucy.com Chooses MTI Storage Solutions

MTI Technology announced that lucy.com, one of the first online sports apparel stores for women, has selected MTI’s enterprise storage systems and DataServices. lucy.com’s critical information will be continually available and protected by MTI Vivant enterprise storage solutions. “MTI’s Vivant makes it possible for us to access a large, redundant array of disks quickly. Being an online retailer is like being a chain store with thousands of outlets. Previously, if just one disk went down, we shut down out site … having that reliable redundancy is not just a necessity – it’s critical, “ says Bill Johnson, lucy.com’s CIO.The combination of MTI’s Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) architectures with its Fibre Channel Vivant storage servers gives lucy.com a completely integrated full-storage solution.As e-business continues to grow, MTI wants to provide storage solutions that help companies maintain the availability of critical data through its storage solutions. “At MTI, our goal is to meet the current storage requirements of these companies, and lead the way to improving and advancing storage technologies that will support them for future growth,” said Kevin J. Liebl, MTI’s vice president of marketing.