Evolving Solutions is pleased to share a recent solution success story about a rapidly growing construction and agricultural equipment provider that needed a high performing, flexible datacenter that would expand with them.

Evolving Solutions overhauled the existing datacenter and conducted an enterprise-wide IT infrastructure redesign using JD Edwards ERP software.  We helped implement and configure the ERP solution, as well as migrating data from legacy systems.

Evolving Solutions designed a storage infrastructure using the IBM XIV storage system, X86 and IBM system p Bladecenter.  This solution sets the company up for uninterrupted growth up to 79 terabytes and can be easily updated if more storage is needed later.

The solution also included virtualization and disaster recovery components. We implemented an IBM System p Blade center appliance, which allows the customer to run five diverse workloads inside a single architecture.  Their virtualized environment allows them to move running workloads between servers to maximize availability and avoid downtime, as well as dynamically adjusting server capability to meet changing workload demands.

With the company’s location prone to flooding, backing up files and moving the tapes off-site is extremely important.  They cannot risk their data being lost.  We therefore implemented a Tivoli Storage Manager disaster recovery solution to act as their insurance policy.

Summary of Benefits

• Consolidation – Streamlining and integration of disparate systems
• Scalability – Room to grow without having to implement a “forklift upgrade”
• Enhanced Performance – Virtualization has increased server utilization
• Network Connectivity – Fast and remote access to company data
• Cost Savings – Savings in systems maintenance costs  following AS400 decommissioning
• Managed Services – Scheduled healthchecks to monitor system performance

Read the full solution success story.

From too many physical servers to server provisioning processes that can stretch for weeks, many clients we work with at Evolving Solutions describe similar symptoms when detailing the data center inefficiencies they are striving to solve.  Oftentimes, the solutions we architect and deploy will immediately and significantly reduce the money and resources that for years had gone into working around these inefficiencies.

United Sugars Corporation, and parent company American Crystal Sugars Company first contacted Evolving Solutions describing the lengthy server provisioning process experienced by their IT professionals.

United Sugars and American Crystal manage a nationwide sugar supply chain, all via massive data centers.  When it came time to upgrade the tracking software applications within these data centers, the necessary server provisioning process stretched nearly two weeks and cost thousands of dollars.

We architected and deployed a server virtualization for United Sugars and American Crystal that reduced the two week server provisioning process in the companies’ data centers to a ten minute upgrade.

In doing so, we enabled the IT professionals at United Sugars and American Crystal to focus more time on mission critical tasks, including upgrading a disaster recovery process.

We’re very proud of the solution architected for United Sugars and American Crystal (we even won a Beacon Award for it!) and are happy to share with you the full server virtualization success story via a complimentary download.