Modernising and Consolidating a Multi-Vendor Storage Estate
A global enterprise operating across multiple data centres faced mounting challenges with its legacy storage environment. Over time, the infrastructure had grown into a complex mix of arrays from multiple vendors, each with its own management interface, support model, and cost profile.
This fragmentation led to inconsistent performance, high operational overheads, and escalating costs tied to maintenance and power consumption.
The organisation turned to C4C Group for independent expertise in enterprise storage strategy and transformation.
The Challenge
The client’s environment included ageing arrays from several top-tier storage vendors, each provisioned over different refresh cycles.
This created a fragmented infrastructure with:
- Multiple management tools and support contracts
- Rising power and cooling demands across data centres
- Inefficient capacity utilisation and storage silos
- Inconsistent performance between applications
- Increasing cost per terabyte (TB)
With workloads continuing to grow, the business needed a more scalable, efficient, and manageable solution one that could consolidate its estate, simplify operations, and reduce total cost of ownership.
The Solution
C4C Group’s storage experts leveraging deep experience from Dell Technologies, NetApp, and Pure Storage delivered a comprehensive consolidation and modernisation plan.
The engagement included:
- Assessment of the existing estate, mapping all workloads, dependencies, and lifecycle positions.
- Vendor-neutral evaluation to determine the optimal long-term storage platform.
- Migration strategy to consolidate from three major vendor arrays to a single, high-performance, scalable platform.
- Architecture design aligned to modern hybrid data centre standards.
- Performance benchmarking and data tiering, ensuring critical workloads received optimal I/O.
By aligning the new architecture with the client’s growth and sustainability goals, C4C delivered measurable business and operational impact.
The Outcome
Within months, the organisation achieved:
✅ 45% reduction in data centre footprint
✅ 38% improvement in performance and throughput
✅ Over 30% reduction in power and cooling consumption
✅ Simplified management and unified visibility across all storage assets
✅ Lower cost per TB through capacity optimisation and vendor consolidation
By modernising its infrastructure, the client not only reduced complexity but also positioned itself for future scalability, automation, and cloud integration.
Why C4C Group
C4C Group’s unique advantage lies in its independent insight and vendor-side experience.
Our experts understand the intricacies of enterprise storage platforms — from legacy SANs to next-generation all-flash arrays — enabling clients to make informed decisions that maximise performance and minimise cost.
Unlike traditional resellers, C4C combines technical depth with commercial acumen, ensuring every modernisation project delivers measurable and sustainable outcomes.
Key Results
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Data Centre Footprint | ↓ 45% |
| Storage Performance | ↑ 38% |
| Power & Cooling | ↓ 30% |
| Management Complexity | Simplified |
| Cost per TB | ↓ 25–40% |
