Centric

Centric & Scality

To learn more about how Centric’s storage environment is helping the company stay competitive, read the full story here:

Zero

downtime achieved

Pulling the plug on the old solution, earning employee buy-in

To support the business model shift, Centric’s IT leadership realized it needed to overhaul its storage environment. The previous solution was frequently plagued by disk drive failures, forcing the small IT team to work overtime to remedy issues. There was also ongoing concern about running out of storage or the compute power needed for necessary backups.

Centric enlisted the help of HPE and Scality, which led to implementation of the HPE Apollo 4000 and Scality RING storage solution. Employees were initially skeptical of the new environment. To counter this skepticism, Centric’s IT team did something extreme.

“Employees felt that, sure, we could tell them the new infrastructure would do what we said, but they actually wanted to see it in action,” explains Edwin Ruiter, an IT architect at Centric. “So in the middle of a backup, we pulled the plug on the system to prove that it was working. And, of course, everything continued to operate without a glitch. Employees started seeing for themselves that when issues come up, there’s no longer any downtime.”

Scality and HPE support Centric in serving customer needs at lower cost

Centric set out to deploy a reliable, flexible, and scalable storage solution to ensure continuity, prevent outages, and raise the bar for employee innovation and better customer service. Scality and HPE delivered.

The new infrastructure enables Centric to store far more data and manage it in multiple environments, allowing the company to serve more customers at a lower cost than before. Because the new managed backup service is more efficient, a cost reduction of 25% is being passed on to the end user.