CASE STUDY: VILLAGE ROADSHOW

Village Roadshow has been

entertaining Australia for over 50 years

via its businesses including cinemas

and film, music, theme parks and DVD

distribution.

With such a substantial business

footprint, Village Roadshow makes

significant use of technology for

processes such as ticketing, websites,

distribution for film and DVD rental,

as well as its entire communications

infrastructure.

Village Roadshow traditionally managed

its own data centre at its Jam Factory

headquarters in Melbourne. As the

company outgrew the data centre space

with increasing requirements for data

storage, CIO, David Kindlen decided it

was time to review all available options

to ensure Village Roadshow could

continue to deliver its products with no

downtime.

Village Roadshow moves toward the cloud with Interactive and NetApp

“Our data was growing at a phenomenal

rate, and we were running out of

space to store it. We needed a high

performance and scalable managed

production storage solution, that

provided strong business continuity

capabilities at a competitive price to an

in-house purchase,” explained Kindlen.

“I spoke with Interactive about setting

up Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

utilising hardware from its storage

partner, NetApp; with whom we already

had technology that we were very happy

with,” said Kindlen.

Village Roadshow had already developed

a strong working relationship with

Interactive, providing a number

of services including hardware

maintenance and disaster recovery

services spanning over nine years.

The structure at Village Roadshow

is dynamic, and Interactive’s flexible

“The flexibility we are given with Interactive

to tailor an agreement to the way our

organisation works is what has ensured

such a long and successful supplier

relationship. That, combined with the

superior customer service and top-class

facilities they offer.” CIO, David Kindlen

ChallengeVillage Roadshow was looking for a scalable managed storage solution and data migration assistance, with competitive pricing against an in-house purchase.

SolutionInteractive developed an IaaS solution with storage solutions partner, NetApp, for Village Roadshow. All data was relocated from an internal data centre to Interactive’s Tier III data centre, delivering managed production storage, firewall services, monitoring, management and reporting.

ValueVillage Roadshow enjoys a fully managed production storage solution with Interactive and NetApp at a significantly reduced cost of in-house purchase, with the added benefit of utilising their old SAN for DR purposes.

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“Opting for Interactive’s managed cloud

storage, based on NetApp, is a great

stepping stone to a full cloud computing

solution, as well as a great cost saving to

Village Roadshow in comparison to the

capital investments to build or upgrade

our own infrastructure.”

CIO, David Kindlen

approach to Service Level Agreements

(SLAs) means that Village Roadshow can

add and remove websites or different

services to the agreement as needed.

“The flexibility we are given with

Interactive to tailor an agreement to

the way our organisation works is what

has ensured such a long and successful

supplier relationship. That, combined

with the superior customer service

and top-class facilities they offer,” said

Kindlen.

Village Roadshow relocated all its

data from its internal data centre

to Interactive’s Tier III data centre,

implementing the NetApp FAS3170

storage system, which delivers managed

production storage, firewall services,

monitoring, management and reporting.

“The data centre facility at Interactive is

an impressive facility, and one that we

could only wish to build for ourselves.

The NetApp system ticked all the boxes

for us; providing cost efficiencies,

scalability and flexibility that can cope

with the continued data growth of an

organisation as large as ours,” Kindlen

said.

“Opting for Interactive’s managed cloud

storage, based on NetApp, is a great

stepping stone to a full cloud computing

solution, as well as a great cost saving to

Village Roadshow in comparison to the

capital investments to build or upgrade

our own infrastructure. I look forward to

further developing a relationship where

I can buy computing power and storage

on demand from an organisation I trust,”

concludes Kindlen.

Simon Durkin, Director of Sales

at Interactive, said the number of

customers looking to move to the

cloud is growing every day, as new and

existing customers take advantage of

the numerous benefits Interactive cloud

solutions offer.

“The significant investment we have

made in our data centre space and

technology has been in anticipation to

the increased demand Interactive is

seeing for cloud services. We expect this

growth to continue as more businesses

seek the financial benefits of the cloud,

with the security of our Tier III data

centre,” Durkin said.

“Interactive has made it a priority to

provide world-class cloud solutions by

investing in the best local talent and

utilising trusted partners including

NetApp. We are proud to be able to

utilise this suite of products to build

on the portfolio of services we already

provide Village Roadshow,” added

Durkin.

“The data centre facility at

Interactive is an impressive

facility, and one that we

could only wish to build

for ourselves. The NetApp

system ticked all the boxes

for us; providing cost

efficiencies, scalability and

flexibility that can cope with

the continued data growth of

an organisation as large

as ours,”

Interactive Pty Ltd www.interactive.com.au

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