Global enterprise across multiple data centres
Drawing on deep experience from Dell, NetApp and Pure Storage, C4C helped a global enterprise consolidate a fragmented estate, cut cost and improve performance.
The client ran ageing arrays from several top tier vendors, each bought on a different refresh cycle, which left the estate fragmented and expensive to run.
Our storage experts delivered a full consolidation and modernisation plan, independent of any single vendor.
Delivered through our IDEAL framework, the disciplined method behind every C4C engagement.
Within months the client reduced complexity and positioned itself for future scale, automation and cloud integration.
Our advantage is independent insight paired with vendor side experience. We understand enterprise storage platforms from the inside, and we combine technical depth with commercial acumen so modernisation delivers measurable, lasting outcomes.
It depends on how fragmented the estate is, but the gains compound. In this engagement consolidation cut the data centre footprint by 45 percent, improved performance by 38 percent and reduced power and cooling by over 30 percent, alongside fewer support contracts and tools to manage.
Often, but not blindly. A single high performance platform removes silos, simplifies management and lowers cost per terabyte. The right answer depends on your workloads, so the platform should be chosen on evidence from your own estate, not on an existing vendor relationship.
Because every array bought on a different cycle brings its own management tools, support contract, refresh date and power draw. The hardware is only part of it. The hidden cost is the operational drag of running several platforms that do not behave as one.
Neither wins outright. Hyperconverged is elegant when compute and storage scale together, but a disaggregated, three tier design lets you refresh and scale them independently. For estates where the fused model no longer fits, separating them can be the cleaner long term position.
Modern arrays deliver far more capacity and performance per watt than ageing kit, so consolidating several older platforms onto one efficient system reduces both the rack space used and the power and cooling it draws. Here that was a reduction of over 30 percent.
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