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Keith Fagan , Infrastructure Services Manager at Clientèle Life
CLIENTÈLE LIFE ENSURES COMPETITIVE DIFFERENTIATION WITH CONSISTENT UPTIME AND FAST DATA ACCESS USING INFINIDAT
As more and more businesses attempt to scale alongside their Digital Transformation journey , they must implement technology which offers positive results and acts as an enabler . Infinidat has offered Clientèle
Life an enterprise storage system which has contributed to the company ’ s competitive advantage in terms of its storage capabilities . Keith Fagan , Infrastructure Services Manager at Clientèle Life , tells us more .
Data storage is an ongoing challenge for any business in the era of Digital Transformation . Clientèle Life , part of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange ( JSE ) -listed Clientèle Limited Group , is a well-known company in the South African market . It has been offering affordable funeral cover , health , legal and life insurance for the past 25 years , with convenient , easy to understand products . As part of the insurance and financial services sector , data is a heavily regulated commodity for Clientèle Life . When it comes to meeting compliance objectives as well as performance requirements , the data platform is of the utmost importance .
The challenge
Clientèle Life ’ s existing data storage solution was reaching end of support . In addition , its foray into hyperconverged storage had not produced the performance benefits that it had anticipated . In order to address this issue , it would have required the costly addition of new compute nodes . This presented an opportunity to find a solution that would better cater to its current and future needs .
Its requirements included a three-tier architecture , high-availability , highperformance and support for the www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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