Client

A public sector ICT service provider established by the government for the purpose of coordinating
and harmonizing technology acquisition, operations and use in the public sector.

Business Challenge

• Poor resource utilization(storage)
• High hardware and operating costs (hardware supports, power and cooling etc.)
• Frequent and long downtime
• Infrequent backups and tedious recovery
• Inability to scale business needs
• Unsustainable management overhead

Solution

• Storage consolidation, disaster recovery and enterprise backup and restore solutions were
  deployed to expand and consolidate the existing enterprise storage area network (SAN); data
  were then replicated to a disaster recovery site
• The solution was deployed to improve the impact on business continuity and operational
  efficiency while ensuring efficient server and storage consolidation

Results

• Provisioning and increasing resource utilization up to 80%
• Reduced operating costs in hardware support, power and cooling
• Decreased downtime and improved reliability with business continuity
• Increased application availability
• Improved agility, flexibility and scalability
• Reduced CAPEX on hardware
• Cost-effective and highly available IT infrastructure
• Automated recovery of storage at DR site