interactive & aperio
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CASE STUDY: APERIO
Australasia’s largest flexible packaging
manufacturer, Aperio, is enjoying
the benefits of moving its storage
and managed services requirements
to Interactive, Australia’s leading IT
systems availability services provider.
Delivering exceptional return on
investment for the business’ ICT
infrastructure, Interactive provides
managed IT services for Aperio,
including co-location via its Sydney
data centre, heightened security and
faster access to shared services and
information for all its thirteen sites in
Asia Pacific as the business continues
to expand.
“Interactive’s Managed Services solution
gives us access to newer infrastructure
at a low ongoing cost, delivering the
best possible return on investment for
our IT expenditure. For the same cost
per month, we could have upgraded our
Control, Speed, Growth: Aperio has the whole package with Interactive’s managed services solution
core site at Chester Hill and still have
all the potential issues we had before
coming to Interactive,” said Blair Hope,
CFO, Aperio.
Instead, Interactive’s solution provides
all the benefits of a high availability
managed services infrastructure,
including utilisation of managed virtual
servers and managed storage services
for primary servers, managed firewall
services, end-to-end management
of production environment, internet
access, backup solution and faster
access for all sites to share services.
“We didn’t need to outlay hundreds of
thousands of dollars in replacement of
switches and support, as the focus is
off our core site and will be supported
by the best possible technology at
Interactive’s local data centre,” he
added.
“Interactive’s Managed Services solution
gives us access to newer infrastructure at a
low ongoing cost, delivering the best possible
return on investment for our IT expenditure.
For the same cost per month, we could have
upgraded our core site and still have all the
potential issues we had before coming to
Interactive,” Blair Hope, CFO, Aperio.
ChallengeAperio required a managed services solution to deliver more bandwidth and increased resilience to cope with the growing demands of the business. SolutionInteractive provides managed IT services for Aperio across thirteen sites in Asia Pacific, including co-location via its Sydney data centre, heightened security and faster access to shared services and information. ValueAperio now has access to the best technology and expertise, significantly improving business efficiencies and providing maximum system and data security.
IndustryFlexible packaging manufacturer
www.interactive.com.au
“Ultimately, we sought a solution that would
make our ICT infrastructure work harder
to deliver more bandwidth and increased
resilience, to cope with the growing demands
of our business, rather than significantly
investing in a completely new system or
resources,” Blair Hope, CFO, Aperio.
Where there is business growth, an
increase in data inevitably follows
– however Aperio’s former ICT
infrastructure, at the capacity it was
at and flexibility it offered, limited the
company’s ability to meet the needs of its
remote sites and provide the security and
protection required for its customer data.
“Ultimately, we sought a solution that
would make our ICT infrastructure
work harder to deliver more bandwidth
and increased resilience, to cope with
the growing demands of our business,
rather than significantly investing in a
completely new system or resources,”
said Hope.
For the solution, Aperio turned to
Interactive, who had already been
providing hardware maintenance services
for Aperio and had impressed Aperio
with an adaptive response to its unique
business needs.
Developed and managed by Interactive’s
Business Solutions Group (BSG), the
customised Managed Services solution
means Aperio’s 13 virtual servers are
all run off Interactive’s highly scalable
VMware Virtual Farm, with all data
replicated between its existing Chester
Hill site and one of Interactive’s five
Data Centres.
To ensure maximum resiliency and
security of the corporate infrastructure,
Aperio also opted for Interactive’s
managed storage services to provide
recovery of virtual systems and critical
production data, and managed firewalls
across Australia and New Zealand.
Crucially, Aperio maintains full control
over its servers and has the flexibility
to turn up or turn down the solution to
fit their business needs, with the ability
to reallocate memory and the central
processing unit across production virtual
servers to allow for peak usage periods
within the hosted environment.
“Via Interactive, we have access to the
best technology and expertise that
significantly improves our business
efficiencies, and provides maximum
system and data security, which would
not have been possible with our older
systems or an on-site solution,” he
added.
Via Interactive, we
have access to the best
technology and expertise
that significantly improves
our business efficiencies,
and provides maximum
system and data security
Interactive Pty Ltdwww.interactive.com.au
Melbourne (03) 9921 8444Sydney (02) 9431 8000Brisbane (07) 3323 0800
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