Infinidat Customers Gain Advantage with Enterprise Storage Solutions

By Eric Herzog, CMO, Infinidat Ltd.

Cost savings, performance improvement, and 100% availability with zero downtime are hallmarks of Infinidat’s enterprise storage solutions. Together, these attributes give company’s customers the one thing that creates significant business value – competitive advantage.

Consider Petco, a market leader in pet care and wellness products. The deployment of  the firm’s storage platforms into its data centers has enabled better pet-parent experiences, providing the company with a strong competitive advantage. The solution enabled the company to substantially lower their Capex and Opex. By deploying Infinidat’s storage technology, Petco obtained 100% availability with zero downtime, as well as reliability and scalability.

Most of Petco’s core business systems run on 4 InfiniBox storage systems in multiple data centers. The user’s selection Infinidat was more intensive than just throwing bird seed to the wind. For the evolution of its enterprise storage infrastructure, Petco had stringent requirements to improve speed, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Infinidat met the criteria. (case study)

Digitization has transformed traditional companies such as Petco into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring high availability and zero downtime. Likewise, another company that values the competitive edge that Infinidat’s storage solutions delivers is Salem Five Bank, a service financial services corporation.

This bank needed to upgrade its enterprise storage infrastructure as part of a major upgrade of online banking applications with a 3rd-party provider. They wanted to improve operational efficiency (i.e. virtualized systems, databases, business workloads, etc) and only pay for storage as needed.

Salem Five ended up banking on enterprise storage because InfiniBox is a reliable platform that self-optimizes performance. Infinidat provided performance, availability, flexibility, and lower TCO that the bank needed to maintain their edge in the marketplace. They were a marked improvement over the previous, legacy storage technologies that the bank had been using.

The bank secured 100% availability with zero downtime, along with frictionless scalability. Furthermore, thebendor provided Salem Five with a cloud-like flexible consumption model. While Salem Five’s personal touch uncomplicates banking for consumers, Infinidat simplified storage for the bank while improving performance, reliability and cost savings, as well as providing white glove personalized service. (full case study)

Insurance companies also see Infinidat as a storage vendor of choice. One that has spoken out publicly, like Salem Five, is Clientèle Life Insurance, an insurance company in South Africa.

Clientèle Life Insurance wanted to ensure competitive advantage with consistent uptime and fast data access.

They wanted a storage solution with a 3-tier architecture that delivers HA, performance, replication capabilities, support for virtualized environments, and flexibility to scale at short notice.

Clientèle Life Insurance reduced risk by choosing Infinidat as its storage solution provider. Two InfiniBox systems for synchronous replication between the insurance company’s production and DR data centers are in operation. The ROI has been generated through cost savings, enabling them to do more with fewer resources.

Vendor’s cloud-like flexible consumption models optimize budget for the customer. The cost efficiencies are coupled with a 40% performance improvement, supported by proactive system monitoring. Ultimately, Clientèle Life is able to deliver a better customer experience through consistent uptime and speedy access to information. (case study)

Another company that sought competitive advantage through Infinidat’s world-class solutions is Contship Italia Group, an Italian firm in container terminal logistics and intermodal solutions. To accomplish it, they needed to upgrade critical enterprise storage for VMware. They saw it as an opportunity to reduce the complexity of the storage infrastructure. They needed a more autonomous, easier-to-use solution.

Contship selected Infinidat because of the ease of management with a set-it-and-forget-it approach. The fact that the InfiniBox Active-Active replication and VMware’s Storage Cluster (VMSC) are integrated was also attractive. It meant VMware-Infinidat integration. The simplified migration to Infinidat’s platform exceeded expectations.

The move freed up resources for other value-added activities. Contship was able to achieve 40% cost savings with Infinidat. At the same time, the user gained higher performance and lower latency in its storage, while adding the autonomous automation that it wanted. Infinidat’s system delivers 100% application and data availability for Contship Italia’s virtualized environments. (case study)

These customers that have adopted Infinidat’s enterprise storage solutions are a few examples of vendor’s expanding installed base. More than 25% of the Fortune 50 are now the firm’s customers, leveraging its value proposition for large enterprises to provide InfiniBox and InfiniGuard as their primary storage, data protection, DR and BC, and cyber resilience solutions.

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