Credit and Investment Ombudsman Simplifies Data Center with SimpliVity
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Company Size
200-1,000
Region
- Pacific
Country
- Australia
Product
- OmniCube CN2200
Tech Stack
- Microsoft Exchange DAG
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft SQL
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
The Credit and Investment Ombudsman (CIO) was established in 2003 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. CIO offers consumers an accessible, independent and fair external dispute resolution service, approved by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. CIO has more than 18,000 participating financial services providers who operate in a variety of financial service sectors. The aim of the organization is to provide consumers with a free and impartial dispute resolution service as an alternative to legal proceedings for resolving complaints with their financial services and product providers.
The Challenge
The Credit and Investment Ombudsman (CIO) was experiencing growth challenges within its IT. The organization’s new levels of growth required a new data platform for the next chapter in the organization’s life. The legacy IT infrastructure was designed for the early stages of the organization’s operation. CIO was running all their applications on physical servers, and they had not invested in virtualization. Their legacy infrastructure impaired CIO’s ability to expand and adapt to new business growth. It was time to make a change. CIO was challenged by managing a cluttered data center of aging hardware and software. Their physical environment consisted of general purpose Dell servers with built-in storage. The physical stack consumed multiple racks in their data center. The complex infrastructure ran Microsoft Small Business Server and other database servers. The servers were dedicated to running specific applications such as WebApp, Database, email messaging, accounting and various line of business applications.
The Solution
To address all CIO’s requirements, they chose the space efficient, 2U OmniCube CN-2200, and they have deployed two nodes in their primary data center and a third system in the DR colocation site. The OmniCube 2200 not only met CIO’s financial requirements, but also met all their key design requirements including: Refresh the data center hardware with a solution that aligns to the flexibility and scalability of virtualization, Provide for integrated disaster recovery to resolve the current issues with long recovery times, Management simplicity, allowing a small team to be proficient in a smaller set of products, Shrink the infrastructure footprint. Through partner The IT Consultancy Group, Grech learned about SimpliVity OmniCube, a next generation, hyperconverged infrastructure solution that provides a globally federated, hyperconverged IT infrastructure platform that uniquely combines eight to twelve core data center functions, including VMware hypervisor, compute, SSD and HDD storage, network switching, backup, replication, WAN optimization, real-time data efficiency, performance acceleration and global unified management in one solution.
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