Middle Eastern logistics company Agility has partnered with solutions provider and systems integrator STME, in a deal designed to boost the firm’s data storage capacity and modernise its server infrastructure.
“Our growth over the years has been phenomenal and with that comes the need to make sure that our data storage solutions are up to speed in order to respond to our data growth requirements,” said Sohiel John D’Silva, IT Manager, Agility. “Partnering with STME has allowed us to reach this objective. In addition, we have sought their expertise in transitioning to the VMware ESXi virtualisation technology so as to align our IT infrastructure with our organisation’s ever-shifting business strategies.”
Agility’s IT requirements reflect a growing trend among enterprises not only in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), but globally as well, said Ahmed Hassan, Support and Professional Services Director, STME. “Explosive data growth has prompted the need for larger and more complex storage solutions as old storage architectures reach their performance, availability and capacity limits,” he said.
STME implemented a complete technology refresh for Agility, Ahmed said. “We proposed the adoption of NetApp FAS2240 and Data OnTap O/S 8.2.x during the refresh. NetApp FAS2240 is a small and dense, yet highly scalable storage system, while Data OnTap O/S 8.2.x is a storage operating system, which can adapt to Agility’s changing business needs, giving them a clear path should they opt adopt private, public or hybrid cloud in the future.”
STME also deployed the best-fit storage application of SAS for performance and SATA network-attached storage (NAS) for future data growth.
