Case Study

JSR Group: Infrastructure Upgrade and Disaster Recovery

Industry: Agriculture
Solution: Cloud & Disaster Recovery
Date: June 2022
Key Result
80% Faster Backup Times with Full Disaster Recovery
The Challenge

The Operational Challenge

An ageing virtualised estate and onsite backup systems were becoming costly to maintain. The onsite backup solution posed a business risk in the event of a disaster recovery situation.

In addition to the old equipment, JSR Group stipulated that any work carried out must have minimal disruption to the workforce and no loss of data.

Ageing Estate

Outdated virtualised infrastructure driving up maintenance costs and reliability concerns.

DR Risk

Onsite backup presented a critical business risk with no off-site recovery capability.

Zero Disruption

Strict requirement for minimal downtime and zero data loss during the migration.

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Our Approach

The Contrac Approach

Contrac applied a Consult, Transform, Support methodology to upgrade the infrastructure.

01

Consult

We ran an analysis on the existing IT core, enabling correct sizing for the new infrastructure.

02

Transform

We migrated the environment to a hyper-converged private cloud solution using Dell PowerEdge VRTX hardware and Dell blade servers. We repurposed old production hosts for off-site backup and disaster recovery using Veeam software.

03

Support

We utilised VMWare and Veeam to migrate virtual machines to the new infrastructure without interruption to the business.

Results

Business Impact

Zero Downtime

Streamlined environment with zero downtime during migration.

On Target

Delivered on time and within budget.

Significant

performance improvements in virtual machine speed.

45 mins

Backup times reduced from 4 hours to 45 minutes.

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