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After an in-depth analysis of the challenges caused by our client’s current infrastructure, Cirrus Networks provided a solution strategy involving the NetApp All-Flash arrays for 19 Regional Offices in Australia.
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OverviewCirrus Networks was approached by a major housing
facility to upgrade their infrastructure between 19
office locations across Australia. This also included
upgrading their head office, located in Canberra, which
is responsible for managing everything from operations
and finance, to information technology, human
resources and communications.
This housing facility provides quality housing and related
services in a number of areas around Australia, acquiring
and purchasing land and homes.
Working with NetApp, Cirrus Networks was able to
provide state of the art infrastructure to resolve the
challenges their current infrastructure was facing. The
existing legacy storage infrastructure could not:
• Scale to meet future requirements
• Provide visibility in times of resource contention
• Deliver mature data services
• Provide integrated data protection capabilities.
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The Challenge
Our Solution
The challenge that our client faced was an inability
to cope with the expectation from their application
development team, to deliver agile and responsive IT
services. This is a common issue with many businesses
today, operating with legacy or unoptimised systems.
Our client’s legacy systems were struggling with the
weight of many common challenges including an
inflexible IT infrastructure.
Our client needed the ability to scale their infrastructure
to meet the future requirements of the business. The
legacy systems were not designed with future proofing
or scale-out design in mind. These systems were also
struggling to provide visibility or insight into resources
when those resources are in contention, as well as
needing to deliver a mature and efficient data service.
Integrated data protection capabilities were also
significantly affected by the current infrastructure,
entreating the fear of losing potentially scores of data
in the event of a disaster. The biggest effect of these
challenges was a lack of backup and provisioning ability,
making any kind of agile service delivery difficult and
involving far too much manual labour.
An extra challenge was the need to integrate some
Cloud based services to enhance the overall product
and customer experience, and deliver the highest levels
of service to the clients.
After an in-depth analysis of the challenges caused by our
client’s current infrastructure, Cirrus Networks provided a
solution strategy involving the NetApp All-Flash arrays. We
worked with our client to deploy NetApp All-Flash FAS A300’s
at all of their locations, as well as disaster recovery (DR) at
each site.
These flash arrays are designed to provide seamless scale-out
ability with 15.3TB SSD’s with additional slots that do not leave
a storage footprint. These arrays are capable of scaling up to a
massive 4.2PiB potential capacity, allowing for a huge level of
future proofing in terms of storage for our client. This is made
possible through the capabilities of the NetApp AFF (All-Flash
FAS) platform allowing for data protection by saving backup
and DR data from only one copy.
The difference that a NetApp solution brought, as opposed to
a Dell or HDS solution, was the ability to tangibly demonstrate
our IT capabilities in action. This in combination with our ability
to incorporate our client’s current application toolset and
integrate the heavily used Oracle systems, all helped to put
Cirrus ahead of the competition.
Cirrus Networks is a next-generation technology service
provider delivering advisory services, integration services
and managed services. As an Australian owned and
operated business relentless on continued digital
transformation, it is our mission to develop a lasting,
growing and profitable managed technology solutions
business, through strong client engagement and the
excellence of our people.
We engage our clients via a consultancy approach and
push technology innovation specific for the industry type.
By leveraging our wide range of vendor relationships
including NetApp, you have access to new and emerging
solutions to benefit your business.
We don’t have an off the shelf agenda and we’re happy
to design innovative solutions in unexplored territory.
Our purpose is to deliver genuine client business
improvement, utilising best fit technology solutions,
reached by understanding organisational drivers,
challenges and budgets. Cirrus will work with you to tailor
a managed service solution to augment, service or fully
manage all or part of your IT environment. Our flexibility
allows you to focus your effort in new ways to benefit
your business.
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About Cirrus Networks
The OutcomesThe outcome of the Cirrus solution and the deployment of the NetApp All-Flash Arrays, has been an improved
IT infrastructure and solving the issues that the client was having with the legacy systems by:
Allowing for scale out architecture in their IT systems
Accommodating a powerful hardware
platform through the NetApp All-Flash Arrays
Stabilising and protecting data at all points in the business
Providing an infrastructure that will be effective well into
the future.
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