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A 150 year old fashion player with profits of £65million was experiencing issues with their TSM system. It was unable to scale to meet increased workload caused by nearly 40TB of new fashion images. The system was also impacting on the smooth running of the mainframe system which was causing business reporting to run late. Silverstring were tasked to consult and redesign the existing TSM environment with the objective to guarantee full system backups with relevant SLAs, increase the data storage capacity and remove the TSM infrastructure from a mainframe to a Windows based environment. Silverstring installed Predatar Recovery Tracker to track their data recovery processes and ensure business continuity. This organisation are now able to restore whole applications in the event of a disaster recovery or individual file restores within a 4 hour window.
A £750m company specialising in construction, facilities management and engineering services had an urgent requirement to consolidate their multiple datacentre to run from a single location as part of a company restructuring process. Due to lack of onsite skills and resources there was a need to replatform the applications onto a common virtualised server platform. With extremely tight timescales, Silverstring were tasked in delivering a brand new storage and server infrastructure secured with a fully managed 24/7 storage and backup service using the Predatar storage systems management platform and the AAA accreditated service centre. As part of the transition, Silverstring implemented a new IBM virtualised server platform, storage area network and Tivoli backup solution.
In 2007, a £5.8billion retail group began a detailed backup project. With a huge SAP environment, controlling stock levels in over 250 UK stores plus a very successful catalogue business, it was not going to be easy. The company had to ensure that incremental backups were delivered every 30 minutes to maintain the integrity of the data. And with only a 12 hour window to perform a full back up of its SAP system it was imperative that they had an early warning of any performance or hardware issues in their backup environment. With help from Silverstring and the unique Predatar software suite, this organisation was not only able to provide detailed reports to satisfy the auditors but were also given instant alerts of any issues in their backup environment.
One of the UK’s top insurers, were struggling to manage their Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) environment, employing technical specialists who demanded high salaries and spent over 50% of their time resolving problems. With the help of Silverstring and Predatar this organisation were able to redirect 75% of their issues to a 1st line support hotline which released nearly all the senior technicians time allowing them to focus on new development.
The IT department of one of London's smaller borough councils was struggling with costly and manual DR tests. The IT department sell their services to all other internal departments and so were looking for a fool proof solution that would reduce the financial and personnel resources required in order to sell the concept across the organisation. Silverstring implemented Predatar Recovery Tracker which both significantly reduced the manual management and time involved, and allowed the team to maximise their output.
As one of the leading independent reinsurance and risk intermediary, it was crucial that this organisation were IBM compliant. Through the use of Predatar Licence Tracker and Silverstring’s knowledge, it was possible to simply and effectively, validate the accuracy of their Passport Advantage renewal and reveal over £25k worth of over licencing.
