The Honey Baked Ham Company needed to replace its slow legacy backup system. Learn how OneXafe became the key ingredient for fast, affordable backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About Honey Baked Ham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1957 Harry J. Hoenselaar opened the first Honey Baked store in Detroit, Michigan, because he believed in an idea. That idea produced what is regarded today as the best-tasting ham in the world. Using the highest quality bone-in smoked ham, Hoenselaar created a special curing and cooking procedure, bringing out a one-of-akind taste. All these years later, the company has stayed within the family and so has the commitment to make every ham the same way Hoenselaar did-one at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As is the case for most companies, the volume of data that Honey Baked Ham Company generates continues to grow exponentially. Unfortunately, the company\u2019s legacy backup solution offered a finite amount of storage, and adding more storage was prohibitively expensive. Even worse, the company\u2019s IT team was constantly struggling with tape backups that took as long as five days to complete. \u201cWe had to find a more efficient way to back up our data-a faster solution that could scale with us,\u201d says Honey Baked Ham\u2019s Director of Infrastructure and Security, Kevin Madsen. \u201cWe also had to stay within our IT budget.\u201d The company had three key criteria for choosing a backup solution: backup speed, cost, and ease of use. After researching available solutions, the IT team chose StorageCraft OneXafe. \u201cStorageCraft\u2019s scale-out architecture, simple interface, and unique approach to securing our data really stood out,\u201d says Madsen. \u201cBut what ultimately sold us was the value StorageCraft delivered, especially compared to the other solutions we looked at. StorageCraft\u2019s solution was very reasonably priced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Working with StorageCraft\u2019s local rep, Honey Baked Ham chose the StorageCraft OneXafe object-based converged data platform for its on-site primary data centre backup. The company added another OneXafe in a secondary stack in a remote location to securely store replicated backups. \u201cThe initial install was really easy,\u201d says Madsen. \u201cThe StorageCraft team helped walk me through the entire setup process.\u201d Honey Baked Ham started out with two OneXafe appliances, each with a single one-terabyte drive. With its storage needs growing quickly, the company soon realised the true value of OneXafe\u2019s scale-out architecture, which makes it easy to quickly and seamlessly add one drive or multiple nodes in a cluster. \u201cAfter the initial install we added two more one-terabyte drives to each OneXafe, for a total of six terabytes in two stacks,\u201d says Madsen. \u201cWe chose the StorageCraft solution because of the added level of support the company offers. And installing the drives was incredibly simple.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The StorageCraft solution shrunk the time required for a full backup of Honey Baked Ham\u2019s data from five days to overnight. \u201cWe love that the hassles we had with our old system are over, and because backups are now fast and easy, our people are more efficient,\u201d says Madsen. Honey Baked Ham also realised another cost-cutting benefit from the StorageCraft solution: a reduced data footprint. With OneXafe\u2019s inline deduplication and compression, Honey Baked Ham achieved data compression rates as high as 5:1. It\u2019s a simple equation: Less storage space equals less money spent on drives. OneXafe features continuous protection and encryption for data at rest, so Honey Baked Ham no longer needs to dedicate extra storage capacity just for data protection. \u201cIt\u2019s so easy to scale the StorageCraft solution as our needs grow,\u201d says Madsen. \u201cAnd I was really impressed by the StorageCraft software stack.\u201d Madsen says. he especially likes the fast backups and replication features. \u201cNow our backups are pretty much effortless. It really is a \u2018set it and forget it\u2019 solution,\u201d says Madsen. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve never needed to contact support for help. I\u2019ve recommended StorageCraft to colleagues and will definitely keep doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key Differentiators<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honey Baked Ham expects to continue to add more drives to its OneXafe platform as its data requirements grow. \u201cIt\u2019s great to have the confidence that we can meet our storage needs now and into the future without facing the challenges and costs of a forklift upgrade,\u201d concluded Madsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Honey Baked Ham Company needed to replace its slow legacy backup system. Learn how OneXafe became the key ingredient for fast, affordable backups. About Honey Baked Ham In 1957 Harry J. Hoenselaar opened the first Honey Baked store in Detroit, Michigan, because he believed in an idea. 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