2. Pain Points & Case Studies
Business Business Pain Points RE Solution Customer Case
Objective
Infrastructure - Acquisition & Merger IMAC from RE Mourant
Refresh & Move - Office Moves
- Upgrades, EOL & Migration
BC & DR - Growth in business critical data Disaster Recovery, SiS
- Operational Maintenance Resilience and High Plastic Logic
Availability Liberum
Phase 1 - Rapid business growth leading to inefficient Virtualise IT production SiS
Virtualisation (IT IT infrastructure Molton Brown
Production) - Multiple sites/ locations ASOS
- High Support Costs
Phase 2 - Improvement / update to existing virtual Virtualise Business SiS
Virtualisation environment. production
(Business - Expansion of acquired virtual
Production)
environment
- Rollout virtualisation to business critical
operations.
Professional - Highly complex and unique solutions. Professional Services Molton Brown
Services - Bespoke level for data centre and Consultation VALSPAR
storage
3. Pain Points & Case Studies
Business Business Pain Points RE Solution Customer Case
Objective
Infrastructure - Business requires pre-configured server Infrastructure Fulfilment & Value Wyeth
Services builds. Add. GSK
- Trusted supplier to fulfil our infrastructure
requirements meeting our delivery time,
configurations and build quality standards.
Professional - Multi regional storage and access Multi Region Project Fulfilment Wyeth
Services capabilities. GSK
Lilly
Storage - Company has outgrown physical Centralise & Consolidate Storage SiS
consolidation storage capacity/ vastly underused Molton Brown
storage facility and needs to maximise ASOS
current available storage capacity. VALSPAR
- Company requires a more unified
storage facility.
Professional - Company requires specific server builds. Bespoke services around server Telstra
Services builds
4. Mourant – Richardson Eyres takes the headache out of data centre move for Mourant
Challenge Solution Results
As a growing organisation, Mourant enlisted the help of Thanks to the skill and
Mourant needed to move to one of its trusted IT partners, assistance of the Richardson
a new data centre to Richardson Eyres to assist Eyres team, the move was
accommodate its plans to with the design, then plan successfully completed
expand its IT infrastructure and orchestrate the move of within the fixed time frame
To move Mourant’s complex its blade and Storage The hardware was
blade server and storage infrastructure successfully rebuilt without
environment without Richardson Eyres prepared any major issues
damaging it for all eventualities and Mourant is now benefiting
The move had to take place provided round-theclock from a larger, best-of-breed
over a set period of time, so support for the move facility
a strict plan of action was
necessary
“We see Richardson Eyres as an extension of our own team. We have been
planning this move with them for the best part of 12 months and they have
been able to offer advice at both a strategic and tactical level.”
5. Molton Brown – Richardson Eyres design and integrate cost effective storage area network
Challenge Solution Results
A scalable and resilient IT Molton Brown needed a Significantly increased
infrastructure was required partner who could design, storage capacity and
to support Molton Brown’s integrate and provide scalability
core business systems training for VMware. It chose Enhanced network
It was looking for a new cost Richardson Eyres performance
effective SAN that could Richardson Eyres deployed HP P4000 SANs provide
provide increased storage an HP P4000 SAN resilience and redundancy
capacity HP P4000 SANs are Snapshots feature enables
The new SAN also needed optimised for virtual minimal downtime
to support VMware environments Molton Brown has
introduced email archiving
due to increased storage
Richardson Eyres provides
business critical support for
both hardware and software
“Richardson Eyres made the whole deployment process pain free and delivered within our
required timeframe and budget. In the past we have used many third party partners to support our
IT and I consider Richardson Eyres to be one of the better partners we have used. I can’t say
enough good things about them.”
6. Plastic Logic – Plastic Logic creates Enterprise class infrastructure to launch electronic
reading phenomenon
Challenge Solution Results
When Plastic Logic created Plastic Logic needed a partner These enterprise class
a new manufacturing plant in who could provide a total infrastructures form a solid
Dresden it needed an design and implementation foundation for significant
Enterprise class service growth between the two sites
infrastructure to support Each of the two identical ensures business continuity
critical manufacturing and environments includes an HP and high availability.
business systems. Storage Area Network (SAN) Virtualisation has enabled
For disaster recovery, it also Backup is done on HP Plastic Logic to reduce
wanted an identical system StorageWorks MSL tape physical servers and still
at its datacentre in libraries. achieve an enterprise
Cambridge, UK with environment at a lower cost.
Data is replicated between the
replication between the two. two sites using HP Continuous Reducing the server
Access software. landscape lowers power
consumption, saving further
VMware has also been used for costs and reducing carbon
extensive virtualisation of the emissions.
server landscape.
“Since we are a comparatively new company that is poised for rapid growth, we
needed an infrastructure to support that growth. That is what Richardson Eyres
has created for us and their enterprise-level IT systems will give us essential
support for the future.”
7. Telstra – Telstra International meets growing customer demand for managed services
Challenge Solution Results
Telstra International wanted HP ProLiant BL460 c-Class High-performance, high-availability,
to introduce blade G5 server blades scalable infrastructure.
technology into its London VMware virtualisation Reliable HP blade servers increase
hosting centre to resolve software compute power and ease
Power and Cooling issues, HP Insight Control manageability.
increase performance, management software High-density infrastructure saves
reduce Total Cost of space & lowers Power and Cooling
Ownership (TCO) and requirements
simplify manageability
Server utilisation increased by 600%
Service levels have increased to
99.9%
TCO continues to fall
Rapid deployment of applications
boosts profitability.
“HP BladeSystems with virtualisation technology are more cost-effective, less power hungry and
easier to manage. Server utilisation has typically increased 600 per cent, downtime is minimal
and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) continues to fall as we introduce more highly reliable server
blades. However, most importantly, they allow us to deliver effectively the managed services
demanded by our Customers.”
8. ASOS – ASOS increases its virtual shop front with HP Blade Servers
Challenge Solution Results
ASOS is the UK’s largest HP Blade Servers New servers solved a major
online fashion and beauty VMware problem for ASOS. The fast-
store, attracting more than HP Enterprise Virtual Array growing website development team
one million visitors a week. (EVA) 6100 storage array can get on with developing new
Due to a growing team of features without risking any
web developers and slowing HP Storage Area Network interruption to the live ecommerce
servers, the team’s progress (SAN) fabric site.
was being affected. The new system is flexible enough
to support the company’s growth
and future plans.
HP Blade Servers and virtualisation
enabled the developers to test and
work on the site without any
interruption to the live ecommerce
site.
Huge savings have been a massive
benefit for ASOS.
“Scalability is the actual key for us. Going forward, if we double or triple our
development team, we need a scalable solution. And, compared with standalone
servers, HP’s Blade Servers are easier to manage, upgrade and support.”
9. Valspar – Centralising Business Critical IT
Challenge Solution Results
Rationalise a sprawling HP BladeSystem c-Class Reduced maintenance
server and storage estate Blade Servers Reduced power
accumulated as a result of HP StorageWorks 4000 requirements
multiple company Enterprise Virtual Array Cost avoidance of £50-100k
acquisitions. HP EVA SAN switches through reduced server
VMware Enterprise Edition purchasing and retirement
and Virtual Centre software £40-50k saving in backup
HP MSA Storage System devices
HP MSL 6030 SAN-attached Improved business continuity
Tape Library $2 million in bandwidth
Richardson Eyres Consulting savings
Services to install and
configure
Riverbed WAN acceleration
devices
“Having a virtualised environment means we have been able to retire approximately 30
physical servers and haven’t needed to buy more. I estimate we’ve saved at least £50,000
and, when we’re finished, that could be £100,000, perhaps more.”
10. SiS – Virtualisation breaks barriers for outside broadcaster
Challenge Solution Results
Refresh existing technology HP BladeSystem c-Class Reduction in hardware &
to provide greater agility, chassis with Gig E switches power requirements
scalability, resilience and and pass through modules Return of one computer
availability HP StorageWorks 4000 room to the business
Enterprise Virtual Array Improved availability and
HP SAN Fabric: 32 switches resilience
with powerpack Easier system management
VMware Enterprise Edition Faster commissioning
and Virtual Centre software Increased development
HP Data Protector Backup productivity
software Proactive response to
HP MSL Tape Library potential problems
HP CarePack for 24x7 Significant reduction in
support for 3 years disaster recovery time
Richardson Eyres Consulting
Services to deploy and
optimise
“Richardson Eyres showed a really innovative approach to designing a solution that met
our specific needs. They were able to draw on their experiences with other customers,
which was very helpful. In addition, they proved they have the ability to deliver what they
promise, which is worth its weight in gold.”
