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Hybrid Storage in Virtualized Environments

By Jeremy DeHart
November 02, 2013

Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP is a regional law firm based in Charlotte, NC serving the needs of the business community. With over 100 attorneys located in four offices across two states, Hedrick Gardner focuses on conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict resolution for clients ranging from small and medium size businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

The Setup

We host our servers and storage onsite in the company headquarters in Charlotte, providing services to our other offices in Raleigh and Wilmington, NC and Columbia, SC. The firm is planning to move its IT equipment offsite to a colocation data center and has consolidated its production servers down to three Dell PowerEdge R620 servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and ESX. Hedrick Gardner has also virtualized its application delivery via the Citrix Flexcast Delivery Portfolio. The law firm operates largely as a Microsoft shop and uses Aderant Holdings' Total Office software, a comprehensive legal office management application, including financial databases and case file management system, as a key critical application

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