Establish a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
With that in mind, his team replaced the legacy data center with a Dell EMC Unity storage array. The all-flash platform cut the need for physical servers from 28 to four, and it slashed provisioning time by close to 80 percent.
“Everything runs in parallel,” Brown explains. “It takes minutes to move over a virtual machine, and then it’s test and boom, put it into production.”
Another immediate benefit of the new platform? “Performance on our enterprise resource planning system and on all of our financial systems suddenly went through the roof. That’s really helped with the migration of our data into a hybrid cloud environment.”
And the migration was crucial. Rio Grande Pacific needed a fast, simple way to move its data to the cloud, Brown says: “Since our architecture is constantly evolving, being able to quickly move virtual machines to and from the Unity platform is paramount. The speed of the Unity system, along with a lot of bandwidth, provides great flexibility with managing our hybrid cloud infrastructure.”