Rolta AdvizeX’s breadth and depth of knowledge across technologies and industries makes us an ideal IT partner during every phase of any digital transformation.
When Rolta AdvizeX began working with a leading national specialty retailer five years ago, the goal was to help them build their virtualization strategy. Since then this retail organization has achieved tremendous growth through an aggressive acquisition strategy of new brands. When rapid growth is coupled with acquisitions, it can lead to an IT nightmare wrought with errors that add up to a lot of dollars wasted by the parent company. Rolta AdvizeX has the expertise to use innovation to incur savings at the IT level, thereby helping to keep a retailer afloat even during challenging times.
Migrating and merging data from new brands, while also consolidating IT departments along with software and hardware infrastructures created the opportunity for a great deal of errors. To eliminate errors during each acquisition, the number one goal for the IT team was to consolidate the data into the retail group’s existing data center. Data migration and consolidation is a very cumbersome task. Rolta AdvizeX proposed automation as the logical step for the customer to pursue in order to increase operational efficiency by standardizing the entire organization, reducing errors and costs by eliminating cumbersome manual tasks, and establishing consistency throughout the brands.
Our technologists, with a history of strong positive outcomes using VMware, had complete confidence when they proposed the retail group automate with VMware vRealize® Automation™ and vRealize Operations™, part of VMware vRealize Suite. Implementing vRealize allowed the retailer to create a very simple, minimal task set for providing virtual machines (VMs), as opposed to the manual process they went through previously. Supporting 2,000 VMs in two data centers and 18,000 users, these manual tasks could add up to an abundance of errors. The new automated process minimized risk and decreased opportunity for errors. VMware NSX® was also deployed, as security was also a factor, considering the retail industry is one of the largest targets for cybercriminals.
Teamwork is critical for success. Since 2012, Rolta AdvizeX has been meeting twice a week with the IT team at this major specialty retailer. Rolta AdvizeX’s strategy is to provide value added services that fit the specific needs and requirements of organizations. For this group, it began by supporting their storage, compute and virtualization solutions, along with numerous consulting activities. As the retail group’s business requirements and landscape has changed, so have the requirements and demands upon the IT staff. Our technical team examined the retail organization’s changing business requirements and designed a holistic solution within the customer’s budget.
Rolta AdvizeX’s expertise and confidence with VMware products is proven to be one of the best in the business, proven by the fact that we were a VMware PPSP (Partner Professional Services Program) Global Winner in 2017. Rolta AdvizeX is also one of a select group with three VCDX professionals on staff. Our knowledge and commitment to VMware runs deep. For organizations, like this national retailer, the hand-in-hand partnership between Rolta AdvizeX and VMware brings unmeasurable benefits. This customer has seen firsthand the value that Rolta AdvizeX adds to a VMware deployment. To learn more about how we can help, contact your local Rolta AdvizeX representative or visit us online at advizex.com.
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