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CLIENTÈLE LIFE NEEDED THE
FLEXIBILITY TO SCALE ON SHORT NOTICE WITHOUT
IMPACTING DAILY BUSINESS
OPERATIONS .
virtualised environment as well as excellent replication capabilities . Above all , Clientèle Life needed the flexibility to scale on short notice without impacting daily business operations .
Clientèle Life runs a 96 % virtualised environment with more than 350 virtual servers hosted on eight production and six Disaster Recovery ( DR ) VMware hosts . The entire company , ranging from telephony systems to its Structured Query Language ( SQL ) database relies on backend storage , making high-availability critical to its business operations .
“ In the past , we needed to upgrade our solution every three years to meet performance , capacity and availability requirements . This became costly and therefore required a more robust solution . This is where Infinidat came into the picture with its reputable solution , augmented by a unique elastic price model . The model allows us to access additional storage instantly while only paying for what we use ,” said Riaan Moller , Storage and VMware Environment Manager at Clientèle Life .
The solution
Infinidat supplied Clientèle Life with two InfiniBox F4230 storage arrays for synchronous replication between its production and DR data centres . The units have a total capacity of 1 Petabyte ( PB ), of which it is currently using 600 Terabytes ( TB ) across both environments . Through intelligent software algorithms , the InfiniBox storage arrays use commodity hardware to offer the highest performance at a disruptive price .
Pricing is completely transparent and all necessary licensing and functionality are included up front .
In addition to supplying and implementing the physical solution , Infinidat provided full training on the system . Consequently , two engineers at Clientèle Life are now certified . This allowed the team to gain an in-depth understanding of its system to maintain and run it independently , with the ongoing support of Infinidat at a global level .
This solution has not only met Clientèle Life ’ s data storage requirements from a cost efficiency and performance perspective , but also provided the
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