Virtualisation, Disaster Recovery & Backup Project Maybourne Hotel Group
Maybourne hotel group
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Background
Maybourne Hotel Group IT infrastructure was based on a distributed data model, with resources installed at both the Head Office, based in Mayfair, and the satellite offices, based in the groups hotels, which include Claridge’s, Berkeleys, and The Connaught.
Maybourne had 34 Wintel HP Proliant Servers, running Microsoft Server 2003, and a host of Back-Office applications. Maybourne identified that financial savings could be made by Virtualising their IT environment, and wanted to improve on the availability of key systems, as well as increasing recoverability following a failure or disaster. By utilising virtualisation technology, application servers and other subsystems can be consolidated down to 4 servers, reducing the physical demands on the server room, such as power and cooling, increasing availability & recoverability and enabling Maybourne to more efficiently utilise capacity on existing server hardware. Maybourne also wanted to use a hosting partner to house the Disaster Recovery Server Environment.
Following an intense selection procedure for a suitable partner – Fairland Consulting were chosen – due to their consultative approach, flexibility and attractive price.
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Objectives:
Maybourne Hotel Group had a number of key objectives to achieve, including:
- Reduce Legacy server and storage hardware / maintenance costs
- Increase availability of key production systems
- Swift restoration of key production systems using snap shot technology
- Provide rapid deployment of server(s) into production or development labs
- Ability to move systems between hardware platforms due to scheduled maintenance
- Minimise disruption to the production environment
- Implement a Disaster Recovery Solution
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Project value:
In excess of £125,000
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Comments:
“Fairland worked closely with our internal team, transferring skills throughout the project ensuring that we could support the new environment going forward.
The consultants were always available and willing to help promptly even for issues that were slightly outside of the project scope. We would happily recommend Fairland for similar projects with other clients.” Infrastructure Manager.
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About us:
Fairland is a specialist IT services provider, focussing on Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare projects but delivering further value from our vast experience of IT infrastructure projects.
Our committed consultants all have excellent knowledge and interpersonal skills to do as much or as little as clients require – be it full project delivery or hand holding your internal staff as and when needed.