Centric and Scality

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Centric

IT outsourcer boosts efficiencies and cuts costs as it transforms into SaaS company

Centric’s new data platform clears a path for modernization and innovation.

To remain competitive, Netherlands-based IT outsourcing company Centric initiated a significant business transformation.

The company has evolved from a traditional hardware and software reseller to a managed services provider.

As customers started using more cloud-based services, Centric rose to the challenge of offering a hybrid solution, bringing cloud and on-prem services together.

The challenge

Pulling the plug on the old solution, earning employee buy-in.

To support the business model shift, Centric’s IT leadership realized it needed to overhaul its storage environment. The previous solution was frequently plagued by disk drive failures, forcing the small IT team to work overtime to remedy issues. There was also ongoing concern about running out of storage or the compute power needed for necessary backups.

Centric enlisted the help of HPE and Scality, which led to implementation of the HPE Apollo 4000 and Scality RING storage solution. Employees were initially skeptical of the new environment. To counter this skepticism, Centric’s IT team did something extreme.

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“Customers want organizations like Centric to build a total solution and deliver it to them as a services organization. The world is changing to become services-based.”

André Franke

Alliance Manager, Centric

25%

backup cost reduction for Centric customers

33%

staff freed up to work on new projects

0%

downtime to service achieved

The outcome

Scality and HPE support Centric in serving customer needs at lower cost.

Centric set out to deploy a reliable, flexible, and scalable storage solution to ensure continuity, prevent outages, and raise the bar for employee innovation and better customer service. Scality and HPE delivered.

The new infrastructure enables Centric to store far more data and manage it in multiple environments, allowing the company to serve more customers at a lower cost than before. Because the new managed backup service is more efficient, a cost reduction of 25% is being passed on to the end user.

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“We now have the visibility to see if a data storage node or disk has an issue, which means we have zero downtime.”

“We’re reducing the storage and backup footprint for our customers, lowering their costs, and allowing them to do better business.”

Edwin Ruiter

IT architect, Centric