projects & agreements
MacRoberts LLP selects
Gridstore Hyperconverged
Infrastructure to manage
40 million documents
Gridstore has announced that MacRoberts LLP, one of Scotland’s
leading commercial law firms has chosen Gridstore’s Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure (HCI) to manage over 40 million documents across the
practice’s three sites as a result of a major infrastructure refresh.
The implementation of 4U of Gridstore flash based hyperconverged appliances which replaces six racks of servers and
storage, has drastically cut the physical footprint and power use,
as well as bringing near real time replication. The Gridstore solution
replaced three racks of 42U each at its Glasgow and Edinburgh sites.
These were comprised of approximately 40 HP DL580 and 380 G6
generation servers plus a HP Lefthand SAN deployment, all of which
were overburdened and beyond capacity.
This ageing infrastructure presented a business risk to the
organisation, limiting its ability to meet its partner and customer demands
for fast document access and responsive infrastructure. Limited scalability
and onerous management overhead, along with slow performance caused
multiple issues, including risk of losing data.
To address the issues of data protection and regular back ups
MacRoberts conducted an evaluation of solutions from Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE), Cisco, EMC, Nimble Storage and
Nutanix, but none met its need for performance, simplicity, or
integration with Microsoft.
CLOETTA FINDS LIFE
IN THE CLOUD SWEETER
ON INTEROUTE’S DIGITAL
INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM
Interoute has announced that Cloetta has chosen Interoute
Cloud Connect (ICC) to enable its move to Microsoft 365
cloud based Apps and help Cloetta to effectively manage its
global IT user demands for flexible mobile working.
Cloetta makes candy, chocolates, jelly beans, nuts
and chewing gum products which are sold in more than
50 markets worldwide. As its local offices migrate to
Microsoft Office 365 and begin to utilise an increasing
number of cloud based applications, Cloetta needed a
network solution that could support this more distributed
way of working.
ICC works as a cloud accelerator, intelligently optimising
application data flows between local office IT and the
head office private cloud, as well as accelerating services
delivered from various public clouds. Interoute’s core digital
backbone with ICC deployed at the edge gives local offices
fast internet access to the applications they need in a
secure, controlled environment that is integrated with the
core MPLS network that carries Cloetta’s critical data traffic.
ICC devices have been installed in Cloetta’s 26 sites
across Europe, each integrated into the VPN, but also
providing secure local Internet breakout for local applications
and cloud based services.