Sector: Retail

Project: Datacentre Infrastructure

Head office: Johannesburg
Employees: Over 45 000 employees

Challenge:
Mass Discounters had workloads distributed across multiple platforms that included both in-house and outsourced 3rd parties. This presented the following challenges:

  • Varying costs model for similar workloads
  • Disparit service level agreements across systems
  • No single management system
  • Delays in service provisioning due to manual processes limiting agility
  • Limited Disaster recovery capability
  • Disjointed backup and recovery across multiple systems
  • Several skill sets needed to manage each technology stack

Outcome:

  • Compliant and validated non-complex Disaster Recovery

Reduction in compute, storage and backup costs

Reduction in software Licensing

Reduction in system management costs

increase in service provisioning