Jarrett Goetz

Jarrett Goetz, MIT Sloan School of Management

Co-chairs: Jarrett Goetz and Emily Leventhal

Jarrett Goetz, senior manager of IT infrastructure at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotech company founded in 2001 with $85 million in funding,, had the big vendors in, and has had previous experience with the leading storage systems.But in the coming weeks, he's going to extend his investment in storage gear from start-up 3PAR.Within days, the storage vendor will declare one of its first wins, but Goetz is already singing the technology's praises, while he lambastes the leading storage vendors.

Goetz is about to top out at his current 4 Tbyte storage capacity limit because he's got 60 scientists generating thousands of slides per quarter, each containing 4 images of up to 320 Mbytes.Before his value-added reseller (VAR) told him about 3PAR, he had narrowed the vendor field to Dell, which was promoting EMC products, and Sun, which was pushing HDS.With those vendors, he said, up front costs would be high, and on-going software costs would get even higher because vendors raise the software license prices when capacity goes up.Deployment would take weeks and weeks, lots of meetings, and a platoon of consultants."Those traditional products send start-ups into bankruptcy," Goetz said.

According to Goetz, his VAR and one 3PAR consultant had the 3PAR system up and running in a half hour."I thought they were joking," said Goetz.A few Infinity people joined Goetz in trying to break the system for two hours, and that was it."One of the other vendors wanted us to go away for a week for training," said Goetz."So 3PAR saves us half a million on the initial costs, hundreds of thousands on deployment, and millions on the software costs."3PAR separates capacity levels from software costs in pricing.

Goetz is looking forward to a Thin Provisioning software feature from 3PAR that will let him set aside available disk space for anticipated peaks in demand and only start paying for it if it becomes a permanent chunk of capacity."Before 3PAR, we were going to hire a real expert SAN manager," he said, "whom we don't have in house now."

"Corporate Technologies saved us months of time and thousands of dollars by acting as our technology advisor and only presenting us with storage options that they had already tested in their lab", said Jarrett Goetz, Infinity Pharmaceutical's Manager of Information Infrastructure.

Team Members: Jacob Korenblum (KSG-GSE), Jarrett Goetz (KSG-MIT Sloan Fellows), Dan Dellenbach (GSE)

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Jarrett Goetz, senior manager of IT infrastructure at Cambridge, MA-based drug discovery startup Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc., has no regrets over his decision to forgo conventional wisdom and deploy new storage technology from 3PAR, Fremont, CA. Despite the obvious risks, he positively burbles with enthusiasm, calling his new array "incredible," and the "simplest device I've ever had to manage."He says he gets "superb" support from the company, which is eager to build a customer base.

Infinity bought a 5TB 3PAR InServ 800 Storage Server to house its Oracle 9i databases, as well as business applications such as Documentum and Exchange.Infinity also opted for remote copy and virtual copy options, and is beginning to use Thin Provisioning, 3PAR's on-the-fly capacity allocation option.Goetz expects the system to grow to approximately 30TB.

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"There is no such thing as having too much security," said Jarrett Goetz of Jenzabar, a Cambridge, MA-based leading provider of Internet enterprise software, e-learning solutions, and services to higher education institutions."Interliant's remote monitored firewall service is an excellent way to ensure that organizations have a cost-effective back-up system in place to protect against any attacks or intrusions.Implementing such a service provides an added layer of security for organizations so that if something happens to get past the internal resources, Interliant's team is right there to step in and address the situation."

The INIT Remote Monitored Firewall Service offering allows organizations to leverage the expertise of Interliant's certified professionals to strengthen their existing, on-site security infrastructure to ensure round-the-clock protection and assurance.This service offering delivers 24x7x365 monitoring of a customer's firewall environment and provides utilization reports via a secure Web site.Most important, Interliant's security engineers provide notification to the customer on triggered events or when utilization thresholds have exceeded established standards.

Bench pressed for space: Scientists at Infinity Pharmaceuticals take their e-notebooks with them while they work, helping to free up space and allowing the researchers to record information while conducting experiments. (Shown here: Jarrett Goetz, Infinity's manager of information infrastructure.)
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With the wireless network, "scientists don't have workstations in the lab," says Jarrett Goetz, Infinity's manager of information infrastructure.
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"We had a shell, we had nothing, we tried to do it right from the start," Goetz says."We looked at wired, wireless, phones, everything."

Goetz had one guiding principle: "We tried to find tools that would make employees as productive as possible."The only initial constraint was "we thought a single vendor would be best for the entire network infrastructure.And voice over IP started to play into our plans as we got further along in the early design stages."

As the company started considering wireless technology, it was uncertain as to which of the standards - 802.11a, b, or g - to adopt.

Goetz started a wireless pilot project last July when the company was in a temporary office in a nearby building in Cambridge.
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"We went with Cisco because its access points support different standards," Goetz says."With the Aironet 1200, you replace the antenna and radio to switch between different wireless standards."

Goetz picked 802.11a for the corporate network in the new building.
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"We've got people moving all over the building with their laptops," Goetz says.For that reason, Goetz is also interested in Intel's Centrino technology for its promise of improved power management capabilities. (Centrino also provides built-in wireless LAN capability.)

All the phones in the company use VoIP.Essentially, the desktop phones are terminals.When a user sits at a desk, he or she logs in and that person's calls are routed to that location.
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"Wireless saved us, conservatively, 27 percent to 33 percent," Goetz says.