SLIDE 5 IaaS Case Study
¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡Client Profile Name: Metrolina Greenhouses HQ: Huntersville, NC Profile: Wholesale provider of plants/ flowers to big box retail (Home Depot, Walmart). Established as the most automated greenhouse in the world Issue:
- Dynamic business with unprecedented
growth
- Overbuilt and inefficient IT
- Aged hardware and poor configuration.
- Expensive infrastructure
- Manpower to manage their distributed
technologies grew to an unsustainable level ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡Solution Delivered
- Full DaaS solution
- Citrix XenApp environment including
Exchange
- Dedicated hosted applications servers and
collocated physical servers
- Brought existing Microsoft Lync platform
into our Data Centers and integrated our hosted virtual applications
- A Geo-diverse Disaster Recovery plan
enabled for replication and dynamic failover
- Fully managed and virtualized, allowed
Metrolina to keep their focus on their business
- Leveraging best practices by maintaining the
strategic functions of IT in house and
- utsourcing the tactical to Matrix
- $468,000 estimated savings in first 3 years
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= $70k+/Month
