In yet another major deal this year, Enterprise Connection Cape have signed a R1 million Storage Area Network (SAN) deal with Tellumat.
Martin Brandt, IS Executive for the Tellumat group comments, "Enterprise Connection spent considerable time and effort to carefully analyse our requirements and propose a tangible solution. We wanted to achieve a proficient and scalable storage architecture for our interoperable IP platforms in order to satisfy dynamic business needs. Their dedication in providing us with a cost-effective and competent data management strategy secured our confidence in their approach."
Tellumat, previously known as Plessey, is one of the leaders in the telecommunications and electronics industry in SA. Employing around 1 400 staff with 650 networked computers, the company places a strong focus on the manufacture and adaptation of externally sourced international products to the requirements of the SA market. They not only provide technology in key niche areas, such as private switching communications, microwave radio equipment and avionics products and systems but also compliment and enhance their products with a full spectrum of services that include project management, network planning, maintenance and software support and facilities management.
As Tellumat have experienced a large data growth over the last 18 months, Enterprise Connection was called in to analyse the company`s existing infrastructure and data demands. Enterprise Connection`s research resulted in the proposal of a SAN as a strategy to cater for Tellumat`s existing and future data demands.
Enterprise Connection Cape`s GM, Johan de Villiers adds, "Tellumat had strict criteria on which prospective solution providers were evaluated. It was an honour to be chosen by them, considering the size of the vendor competition. Our relationship with Compaq and the high calibre of account management gave us the edge on this one. EC Cape has succeeded in building yet another blue-chip reference site in the Storage Arena in the Western Cape".
What makes the deal challenging is that the connection of the heterogeneous platforms and systems into the SAN have to be compatible with the Compaq StorageWorks. The new SAN will be based on RAID technology and higher performance will be achieved through split bus architecture.
In order to consolidate business needs within the operational systems strategy, the proposal advised a new data management strategy of which the expected benefits are:
Central point of storage management to improve admin efficiency.
Improved server lifecycles.
Decreased storage cost per gigabyte.
Improved scalability for future growth.
Consolidated Disaster Recovery Procedure.
High data availability.
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