Since its founding in 1949, Houston-based Wholesale Electric Supply (www.wholesaleelectric.com) has sold electrical supplies to commercial and industrial companies, along with companies in the petrochemical and utility industries around the world. Although Wholesale Electric’s industry is competitive, the company differentiates itself by providing a comprehensive product line teamed with top-notch customer service.
When Wholesale Electric’s customers need a GE breaker, for example, they typically need it right away, so it’s imperative that the company’s systems are always up and available. “The large petrochemical companies don’t care if we have a local issue or a hurricane or any type of disaster in the area,” says Bill Fife, director of technology at Wholesale Electric. “They need material, and they need it now, and we need to be able to supply that need [because] what we sell is available at plenty of other places.”
Fife knew that to maintain high availability, his company had to upgrade its storage solution. And with the help of Wholesale Electric’s reseller partner Tradentrix, Wholesale Electric was able to put together a complete storage virtualization solution made up of a Compellent storage-area network, Xsigo’s I/O Director hardware and software solution, and VMware’s ESX 3.5 virtualization software.
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