Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi) Case Studies Gijima Enhances IT Service Delivery with Hitachi's Sustainable Solutions

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Gijima Enhances IT Service Delivery with Hitachi's Sustainable Solutions

Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cement Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Hardware Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Gijima, one of South Africa’s leading ICT companies, faced a challenge with its inherited server and storage infrastructure. Much of the storage was reaching end-of-life, and Gijima recognized that upgrading could significantly improve performance and manageability. However, the company needed to migrate its data to new storage arrays without causing any disruption to its clients’ systems. Additionally, Gijima required a partner that could offer on-demand scalability at an attractive price-point, to cater to its wide range of clients, from enterprise clients to small to medium businesses. The company's state-of-the-art Tier-3 data center hosts business-critical systems for many of its biggest clients, making the need for a seamless transition to new storage arrays even more crucial. Read More
About Customer	Gijima is a leading ICT company in South Africa, providing cloud infrastructure, IT, and outsourcing services for a wide range of clients, from enterprise clients to small to medium businesses. The company is proudly 100% black-owned with Level 1 BBBEE status and employs 3,000 people across 16 regions. Gijima serves over 1,000 satisfied clients and hosts business-critical systems for many of its biggest clients in its state-of-the-art Tier-3 data center. When Gijima acquired the data center, it inherited most of the existing server and storage infrastructure and its client systems. Read More
Solution	Gijima chose Hitachi Vantara as a trusted partner for its storage refresh. The company installed two Hitachi VSP 5000 Series arrays at its production data center and two VSP G700 arrays for disaster recovery. These all-flash storage systems replaced the older, bulkier spinning-disk arrays, significantly consolidating the physical infrastructure. The migration of clients’ systems was completed within four months, with the majority of the systems being transferred seamlessly to the new arrays without any downtime, thanks to the nondisruptive migration feature of Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System RF and Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication software. Gijima also upgraded its storage management software, adopting Hitachi Ops Center for storage management and provisioning, reporting and analytics, and data protection and replication management. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Cement

Construction & Infrastructure

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Hardware Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Gijima, one of South Africa’s leading ICT companies, faced a challenge with its inherited server and storage infrastructure. Much of the storage was reaching end-of-life, and Gijima recognized that upgrading could significantly improve performance and manageability. However, the company needed to migrate its data to new storage arrays without causing any disruption to its clients’ systems. Additionally, Gijima required a partner that could offer on-demand scalability at an attractive price-point, to cater to its wide range of clients, from enterprise clients to small to medium businesses. The company's state-of-the-art Tier-3 data center hosts business-critical systems for many of its biggest clients, making the need for a seamless transition to new storage arrays even more crucial.

About Customer

Gijima is a leading ICT company in South Africa, providing cloud infrastructure, IT, and outsourcing services for a wide range of clients, from enterprise clients to small to medium businesses. The company is proudly 100% black-owned with Level 1 BBBEE status and employs 3,000 people across 16 regions. Gijima serves over 1,000 satisfied clients and hosts business-critical systems for many of its biggest clients in its state-of-the-art Tier-3 data center. When Gijima acquired the data center, it inherited most of the existing server and storage infrastructure and its client systems.

Solution

Gijima chose Hitachi Vantara as a trusted partner for its storage refresh. The company installed two Hitachi VSP 5000 Series arrays at its production data center and two VSP G700 arrays for disaster recovery. These all-flash storage systems replaced the older, bulkier spinning-disk arrays, significantly consolidating the physical infrastructure. The migration of clients’ systems was completed within four months, with the majority of the systems being transferred seamlessly to the new arrays without any downtime, thanks to the nondisruptive migration feature of Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System RF and Hitachi TrueCopy Remote Replication software. Gijima also upgraded its storage management software, adopting Hitachi Ops Center for storage management and provisioning, reporting and analytics, and data protection and replication management.

Impact #1	The new infrastructure provided by Hitachi has resulted in significant improvements for Gijima and its clients. In the mainframe environment, long-running batch processes now execute faster, and in the open systems landscape, application response times have dropped to the sub-millisecond level, providing a remarkable improvement in user experience. The physical consolidation of the infrastructure has resulted in a 66% reduction in power, cooling, and space requirements, supporting Gijima’s clients' sustainability goals. Additionally, Gijima is saving time and effort on storage management, thanks to the reliability of the Hitachi hardware, and the intuitive storage management and analytics capabilities of Hitachi Ops Center. The new system has eliminated tedious tasks, such as reporting on storage performance and capacity, and made managing replication and backups easier.

Impact #1

The new infrastructure provided by Hitachi has resulted in significant improvements for Gijima and its clients. In the mainframe environment, long-running batch processes now execute faster, and in the open systems landscape, application response times have dropped to the sub-millisecond level, providing a remarkable improvement in user experience. The physical consolidation of the infrastructure has resulted in a 66% reduction in power, cooling, and space requirements, supporting Gijima’s clients' sustainability goals. Additionally, Gijima is saving time and effort on storage management, thanks to the reliability of the Hitachi hardware, and the intuitive storage management and analytics capabilities of Hitachi Ops Center. The new system has eliminated tedious tasks, such as reporting on storage performance and capacity, and made managing replication and backups easier.

Benefit #1	Improved mainframe batch processes performance
Benefit #2	Faster response time of open systems applications in sub-milliseconds
Benefit #3	Reduced power usage, cooling, and rack space requirements by 66%

Benefit #1

Improved mainframe batch processes performance

Benefit #2

Faster response time of open systems applications in sub-milliseconds

Benefit #3

Reduced power usage, cooling, and rack space requirements by 66%

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