After an in-depth analysis of the challenges caused by our client’s current infrastructure, Cirrus Networks provided a solution strategy involving the NetApp All-Flash arrays for 19 Regional Offices in Australia.

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OverviewCirrus Networks was approached by a major housing

facility to upgrade their infrastructure between 19

office locations across Australia. This also included

upgrading their head office, located in Canberra, which

is responsible for managing everything from operations

and finance, to information technology, human

resources and communications.

This housing facility provides quality housing and related

services in a number of areas around Australia, acquiring

and purchasing land and homes.

Working with NetApp, Cirrus Networks was able to

provide state of the art infrastructure to resolve the

challenges their current infrastructure was facing. The

existing legacy storage infrastructure could not:

• Scale to meet future requirements

• Provide visibility in times of resource contention

• Deliver mature data services

• Provide integrated data protection capabilities.

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The Challenge

Our Solution

The challenge that our client faced was an inability

to cope with the expectation from their application

development team, to deliver agile and responsive IT

services. This is a common issue with many businesses

today, operating with legacy or unoptimised systems.

Our client’s legacy systems were struggling with the

weight of many common challenges including an

inflexible IT infrastructure.

Our client needed the ability to scale their infrastructure

to meet the future requirements of the business. The

legacy systems were not designed with future proofing

or scale-out design in mind. These systems were also

struggling to provide visibility or insight into resources

when those resources are in contention, as well as

needing to deliver a mature and efficient data service.

Integrated data protection capabilities were also

significantly affected by the current infrastructure,

entreating the fear of losing potentially scores of data

in the event of a disaster. The biggest effect of these

challenges was a lack of backup and provisioning ability,

making any kind of agile service delivery difficult and

involving far too much manual labour.

An extra challenge was the need to integrate some

Cloud based services to enhance the overall product

and customer experience, and deliver the highest levels

of service to the clients.

After an in-depth analysis of the challenges caused by our

client’s current infrastructure, Cirrus Networks provided a

solution strategy involving the NetApp All-Flash arrays. We

worked with our client to deploy NetApp All-Flash FAS A300’s

at all of their locations, as well as disaster recovery (DR) at

each site.

These flash arrays are designed to provide seamless scale-out

ability with 15.3TB SSD’s with additional slots that do not leave

a storage footprint. These arrays are capable of scaling up to a

massive 4.2PiB potential capacity, allowing for a huge level of

future proofing in terms of storage for our client. This is made

possible through the capabilities of the NetApp AFF (All-Flash

FAS) platform allowing for data protection by saving backup

and DR data from only one copy.

The difference that a NetApp solution brought, as opposed to

a Dell or HDS solution, was the ability to tangibly demonstrate

our IT capabilities in action. This in combination with our ability

to incorporate our client’s current application toolset and

integrate the heavily used Oracle systems, all helped to put

Cirrus ahead of the competition.

Cirrus Networks is a next-generation technology service

provider delivering advisory services, integration services

and managed services. As an Australian owned and

operated business relentless on continued digital

transformation, it is our mission to develop a lasting,

growing and profitable managed technology solutions

business, through strong client engagement and the

excellence of our people.

We engage our clients via a consultancy approach and

push technology innovation specific for the industry type.

By leveraging our wide range of vendor relationships

including NetApp, you have access to new and emerging

solutions to benefit your business.

We don’t have an off the shelf agenda and we’re happy

to design innovative solutions in unexplored territory.

Our purpose is to deliver genuine client business

improvement, utilising best fit technology solutions,

reached by understanding organisational drivers,

challenges and budgets. Cirrus will work with you to tailor

a managed service solution to augment, service or fully

manage all or part of your IT environment. Our flexibility

allows you to focus your effort in new ways to benefit

your business.

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About Cirrus Networks

The OutcomesThe outcome of the Cirrus solution and the deployment of the NetApp All-Flash Arrays, has been an improved

IT infrastructure and solving the issues that the client was having with the legacy systems by:

Allowing for scale out architecture in their IT systems

Accommodating a powerful hardware

platform through the NetApp All-Flash Arrays

Stabilising and protecting data at all points in the business

Providing an infrastructure that will be effective well into

the future.