Global Technology Company Refreshes NetApp Infrastructure with ePlus Storage-as-a-Service
Consumption-based model decreases costs, reduces operational burden on IT staff, and delivers cost predictability along with a modern storage platform
Business Challenges
The company needed to refresh its current NetApp storage infrastructure across two data centres due to the combination of a data centre move, maintenance renewal, and various end-of-life hardware components.
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Their legacy IT infrastructure had become a burden, with extensive technical debt contributing to inefficiencies and difficulties in maintaining their critical infrastructure.
The customer's needs for on-premises storage were fluctuating due to ongoing workload migrations to Microsoft Azure.
They required storage for two data centres and to be best prepared for disparate and dynamic storage capacity requirements per location.
Why ePlus?
- ePlus provides a compelling alternative to traditional purchase options through as-a-service offerings, with flexible consumption models and comprehensive technical support.
- The ePlus team has more than 20 years of history with customer, including 10+ years of managed services support for its switching, wireless, and unified communications infrastructure as well as first call support for security and storage.
- ePlus has been a strategic partner, providing a variety of technology solutions and services including strategic consulting services to the CIO, Business Directors, and Executives.
Solution
ePlus Storage-as-a-Service Leveraging NetApp Keystone
- ePlus engaged with the customer to discover business and technical requirements, including detailed analysis of current volume and storage usage.
- Through a series of solution design workshops, ePlus in collaboration with the NetApp team provided a solution to work in conjunction with the customer's existing NetApp infrastructure to allow for a non-disruptive migration strategy.
- ePlus recommended two separate Storage-as-a-Service subscriptions, including a one-year term subscription to facilitate data centre consolidation projects and a three-year subscription for long-term needs.
- ePlus provided the value and benefit of a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to assist with storage usage planning and ongoing cost optimisation.
- The solution included ePlus Managed Services for the NetApp storage to ease the day-to-day management burden.
Business Outcomes
- The customer was able to replace its existing end-of-life NetApp storage with the flexibility of a consumption-based model that provided a modern and supported platform.
- They were able to cost-efficiently decrease their on-premises capacity with a one-year subscription for the site where workloads were rapidly moving to cloud, avoiding capital expenditures on hardware that may only be utilised for 12-to-24 months.
- The company reduced their operational burden by offloading storage management, hardware maintenance, and software updates, allowing staff to focus on more strategic initiatives, including workload migrations to cloud.
- They achieved cost predictability via fixed per-TiB monthly rates, paying only for the capacity that they actually use at each data centre.
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