Suzuki Australia Pty Ltd is one of the world’s most successful automotive brands worldwide. The Suzuki brand symbolises a long history of outstanding quality and value for its large customer base throughout the world.

Challenges

• Disaster recovery strategy limited by physical infrastructure.
• Current server environment approaching end of lease.
• Server environment containing large number of physical servers.
• Insuffecient scalability in current network and storage systems.

Consequences

• Unable to implement best practice disaster recovery systems with current infrastructure.
• Potential to reduce operating costs by replacing physical servers with virtualised servers.
• Lack of flexibility in network and storage systems.
• Potenial ICT performance gains available.

AVTech Solutions

AVTech worked closely with Suzuki's IT team in order to provide a compehensive solution tailored to their organisations specific needs. In addition to implementation and support, AVTech also provided training and project management services, ensuring a smooth project from start to finish.

Server Virtualisation

Leveraging technical expertise and technology alliances, AVTech was able to drastically improve the effeciency of Suzuki's network and storage environment by implemenating a VMware server virtualisation solution. This solution enabled Suzuki to simplify network management by reducing depedence on physical servers while providing a single point of management throught the vSphere management system.

SAN Storage Deployment

AVTech implemented an IBM SAN system in order to provide a scalable storage solution that delivered high availability and redundant backup capabilities. The flexibility delivered by this solution allows for cost effectice infrastructure development ensuring Suzuji Australia will be able to overcome future ICT challenges.

Benefits

• Delivered more effective disaster recovery, data replication and redundancy.
• Simplified management of server environment.
• Improved storage flexibility and scalability.
• Provided server testing and cloning capabilities.
• Green solution.

"The virtualisation project has been a big step forward for Suzuki Australia, providing our server infrastructure with future scalability and flexibility. It opens avenues to potential seamless recovery possibilities whilst reducing our infrastructures footprint. Our support partner AVT has been very professional and assited Suzuki Australia throughout the project from planning, implementation and documentation."

- Alan Bonnici, Network Manager, Suzuki Australia Pty Ltd.