Transform your I.T. environment with Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) & Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)

To truly power a digital transformation, you need I.T. solutions that are easy to deploy, scale, and even easier to manage. That’s where Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) coupled with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) come to the fore.

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As Gold Microsoft and Gold Lenovo DCG Partners, we can leverage both HCI & S2D technologies for high performance and highly redundant on-premise and cloud solutions accelerating your infrastructure needs into the stratosphere, making a true digital transformation possible. But before we get to the “why”, let’s talk about the “what”.

What is Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI)?

Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI), delivers a single management layer for compute, storage and networking. Saving up to 90% capacity on storage and backup, HCI enables you to save both time and money while at the same time creating an infrastructure that is going to be more efficient, more effective, and easier to use than traditional 3 tier server infrastructure where compute, storage and networking resources are all managed separately. (See the picture below of Traditional 3-Tier Infrastructure v’s Hyper-converged Infrastructure)

What is Storage Space Direct (S2D)?

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a software defined storage solution. It uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment.

Benefits of Hyper-converged Infrastructure with Storage Spaces Direct

Digital transformation is an imperative for enterprises of all sizes. But the ability to quickly adapt to change and speed time to market can be impacted by aging, traditional IT infrastructure. New data center infrastructure solutions are helping data center teams adjust to changing demands & priorities within this new digital world.

Top 4 Business Drivers of Hyper-converged Infrastructure
  • Lower Costs

  • Reduced Risk

  • Efficiency

  • Agility

Operational Benefits of Hyper-converged Infrastructure
  • Improved utilisation of systems resources lowers data centre costs
    Achieved by eliminating shared storage & SAN switches and reducing spending on power, cooling, & data centre floor space.
  • Highly virtualisation, clustered architecture
    This means you can jump off of the system refresh “hamster wheel”, reduce human error associated with life-cycle management and experience rapid application deployment & continuous availability drives BU productivity.
  • Convergence, virtualisation & automation
    Increases I.T. staff productivity, which will simplify management and deployment of IT infrastructure
Current HCI customers were interviewed and below are the findings.

65%

Saw improved storage utilisation

63%

Cited Faster provisioning

57%

Found staff were more productive

53%

Had reduced downtime/improved app availability

50%

Said that compute utilisation greatly increased

Case Studies 

We’ve successfully provided Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) coupled with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) to numerous clients in varied industries such as aged care, hospitality and manufacturing. Here’s some of their success stories. 

HCI Solution
Nambucca Valley Care
Nambucca Valley Care is a community owned and operated organisation with a team of passionate people committed to providing the highest level of service and care to those people that we care for in the Nambucca Valley and surrounds. They have multiple locations and an increasing need within the community. This need has meant more staff and a greater need to ensure tech infrastructure is set and forget.
  • Consolidation of multiple servers and storage systems. 
  • Painless scalability for their burgeoning business. 
  • Performance improvements through load balancing. 
  • Enhanced redundancy and high network availability. 
  • 60% reduction in support hours. 
C.ex Group
C.ex is not only an Ex-Services Club, it also boasts a wide variety of facilities for its members and guests including multiple restaurants, event and conference spaces & bowling greens. With the ever increasing services and facilities meant C.ex needed to upgrade and consolidate old 3 tier type infrastructure and elected to transform themselves with HCI. They have been rewarded with benefits across the board including:
  • Consolidation of multiple servers and storage systems. 
  • Painless scalability for their burgeoning business. 
  • Performance improvements through load balancing. 
  • Enhanced redundancy and high network availability. 
  • 60% reduction in support hours. 
HCI Solution
HCI Solution
Infracraft Detailed Joinery

Infracraft is a manufacturer located in regional NSW whose clients include Google, Apple, RedBull, AMP, and Optus, are a company experiencing rapid growth and faced significant challenges managing their manufacturing operations to meet increasing demand. We recently refreshed their on premise and over complicated setup to a completely transformed Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) solution which has seen massive benefits such as 

  • Consolidation of multiple servers and storage systems. 
  • Painless scalability for their burgeoning business. 
  • Performance improvements through load balancing. 
  • Enhanced redundancy and high network availability. 
  • 60% reduction in support hours. 
Nambucca Shire Council
Nambucca Shire Councils aim is to value and protect its natural environment, maintain its assets and infrastructure and develop opportunities for its people and in doing so they have invested in their I.T infrastructure. Employing a HCI solution with S2D has seen massive gains in productivity and consolidation of old infrastructure.
  • Consolidation of multiple servers and storage systems. 
  • Painless scalability for their burgeoning business. 
  • Performance improvements through load balancing. 
  • Enhanced redundancy and high network availability. 
  • 60% reduction in support hours. 
HCI Solution

Our Solution 

Recognising the importance of being at the forefront of industry trends, we’ve invested significantly in building our very own private cloud built entirely on a Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) Compute/Storage Solution. 

The benefits of our private cloud built on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Compute/Storage Solution are: 

  • Flexibility to tailor solutions to specific client needs. 
  • Higher performance and redundancy to meet more complex market requirements. 
  • Scalability to compute and storage capacity as we grow. 
  • Ability to wholesale to other MSPs. 
  • Lenovo engineers certified our solution for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). 
  • Lenovo’s 24/7 support, global presence, quality and reliability means we can offer clients peace of mind. 

Our product suite via the Lenovo HCI solution includes: 

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 
  • Hosted Telephony 
  • Hosted Managed Security 
  • Web/DNS Hosting 
  • IP Transit 
  • Secure Private Networks 
  • Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery 
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