Improved storage performance and new capabilities

Our customer was initially looking at renewing the support on their existing storage provider, as it was due to expire.

The issue that first became apparent was the fact the vendor was withdrawing support for the current arrays within the next three months – which would have meant the leaving the client unsupported. With it being short notice and that we were approaching the financial year end, we had to ensure a cost-effective solution in quick time this it wasn’t a budgeted project. Here’s how we helped them.

The solution

Complete IT Systems in partnership with our partners IBM and TD Synnex worked together to scope and build a suitable replacement for the existing storage environment. With support from our technical teams, we proposed a FlashSystem 5200, which is IBM’s densest storage system, within the FlashSystem portfolio. This offers the customer benefits such as cyber resilience capabilities, immutability and FlashCore modules (IBM’s NVMe patent drives).

The result

All-in-all, this gave customer new levels of infrastructure performance, and new capabilities. We also provided the customer with finance options to enable them to install the Storage array sooner rather than later and over the term of the agreement. This has saved the company money compared to continual support renewals.

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Read more about storage’s role in cyber resilience.

What’s storage’s role in cyber resilience?

Data’s role as a transformational business asset continues to grow. This article helps you understand its value further, and some insights in how to protect it.

Thanks to increasing investments in application development; modern DevOps practices; and heightened business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning demands, nearly all businesses are accelerating data creation and usage. They are also scaling the number of locations that leverage data. This proliferation of data combined with mounting pressure to accelerate operations has led to an increase in the complexity of both IT infrastructure and IT operations.

Such factors put organisations and their infrastructures at great risk of experiencing malicious attacks, human error, and negligent behaviour. Unfortunately, legacy strategies cannot adequately ensure that business operations will continue during and after these types of incidents. Companies can try to weave together capabilities in an attempt to prevent attacks and other breaches, but functional gaps, poor integration, and management complexity make meeting security objectives time-consuming and difficult.

Changing organisational mindsets from prevention to incident preparation—e.g., implementing storage solutions with built-in cyber resilience—is key to safeguarding critical data assets and being able to quickly respond to and recover from ransomware and other cyberattacks.

So what’s next?

This analyst report from ESG outlines how to shift from Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience with IBM.

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Storage made simple

Businesses are being challenged to optimise IT and drive growth without sacrificing performance, quality or security. With the IBM FlashSystem family, you have everything you need to address transformation and increase cyber resilience.

Designed to deliver industry-leading performance and cost efficiency, FlashSystem all-flash and hybridflash arrays simplify hybrid cloud storage and shorten cyberattack recovery time. Each member of the family provides enterprise-grade capabilities, but they’re not just for big businesses. Use this eBook to learn how IBM FlashSystem helps organisations protect, manage and extend data to the cloud with less complexity and lower costs.

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As IBM partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace.
For more information on how Complete IT Systems and IBM can help, call 01274 396 213 or email .