By Insight Editor / 20 Dec 2019 / Topics: As a service Converged & hyperconverged Data center Networking
Facts at a glance
Client industry
Business travel
Insight provided:
- Strategic guidance for hyperconverged infrastructure
- Integration of multi-vendor platforms with Cisco+
- Unified and managed network compute and storage
Insight services:
- Professional services
- Managed services
Outcomes:
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- Unified compute, network, and storage
- ~12 servers migrated to NetApp Keystone and Pure as-a-Service
- 250TB of data under Managed Services
- 300TB of Cisco HyperFlex
- An OpEx model for flexible costs and improved financial stability
Providing services for business travel, meetings and events, this travel management company has operations in nearly 150 countries and employs more than 18,000 team members worldwide.
With nearly 30 years of experience in the travel industry, the client is no stranger to adapting to the changing tides of business. With Insight’s help, the company had already planned and executed a comprehensive transition to public cloud in 2019, phasing out legacy data centers and building an entirely new service catalog based on future application requirements.
Given the implications of the health crisis beginning in 2020, the company was feeling the impacts of unstable economic conditions in the travel industry. Ready to continue its trajectory of digital transformation, but hesitant to invest in CapEx purchases, company leaders reached out to Insight looking for a holistic solution that would deliver the infrastructure flexibility needed to scale — including a new approach to hyperconverged — while stabilizing monthly cash flow.
To land on a strategic solution, Insight worked with the client to assess its current IT environment. The cloud-based ecosystem we had helped to establish leveraged individual components for networking and hyperconverged computing along with storage solutions from NetApp and Pure Storage.
With a holistic view of existing infrastructure and client needs, we recommended adoption of Cisco+ for network, compute and hyperconverged with Cisco HyperFlex™, as well as bundling in As a Service solutions from NetApp® Keystone and Pure as-a-Service — an all-in-one infrastructure solution fully managed by Insight. For more than a year, the client had considered an alternative solution for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), but quickly decided on HyperFlex once the concept of Cisco+ was introduced. This was due to its ability to meet and exceed the client’s target performance goals and seamless integration with other infrastructure components.
The client’s new managed environment combines block storage from Pure Storage and file storage from NetApp Keystone for a combined 250 terabytes of storage across roughly 12 servers, with 300 terabytes of HyperFlex and managed network services through Cisco+.
Today, the company sets its sights on exponential growth. Despite the pandemic’s economic impact on the travel industry, this valued client is benefiting from scalable, flexible and unified architecture that will allow operations to easily ramp up with the business without risky capital expenditure. The managed services model enables a consistent pricing structure that not only makes monthly cash flow more reliable for the present, but also aids in projecting costs of future growth, with fixed and transparent monthly fees.
Client teams continue to benefit from reduced day-to-day infrastructure burdens and a single point of contact for any issues that may arise; the Insight managed services team proudly supports the organization’s network, compute, storage and HCI.
Navigating digital transformation while protecting business continuity is never simple — but with Cisco+ and bundled solutions from Insight Managed Services, the client is enjoying newfound financial stability while fully prepared for growth to come.
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