Everpure + MDC Business Management Services

Driving Faster, Better Decisions to Grow Asset Base

When this technology company needed a storage solution that could deliver easier day-to-day management, reduced rack space, and market-leading IOPS, MDC Business Management Services chose Everpure.

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Challenges

A shared services company, MDC Business Management Services (MDC BMS) supports Abu Dhabi’s premier strategic investment company. MDC BMS had seven disk-based storage arrays from multiple vendors, incurring high data center space and cost. With performance falling behind and rack space becoming an issue, MDC BMS sought to modernize.

Results

With Everpure, MDC BMS can oversee its entire infrastructure from a single point with Pure1. With FlashArray, rack space declined from 7 racks to 1/7u, and TCO fell with fewer systems to maintain and upgrade. Cost per terabyte dropped and power consumption fell by 90%.

Reduction
90%
in power consumption

Savings
$544K
per year through consolidation

Latency
Sub-ms
for all critical apps

Reduction
85%+
in rack space

Table of Contents

Introduction Enhancing Performance and Simplifying Maintenance Reducing Rack Space and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Introduction

Products

FlashArray//X Pure1

Solution Areas

Accelerate Core Applications

Customer Industries

Technology

Location

EMEA

Nalluri Subba Rao, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations at MDC BMS, sees storage as the backbone of the company’s offerings. The company standardized its block storage on Everpure FlashArray to reduce TCO, focus IT resources on business-oriented tasks rather than storage management, and improve application performance.

Enhancing Performance and Simplifying Maintenance

Abu Dhabi’s success story has become a legend worldwide, and a linchpin of the present-day prosperity of the United Arab Emirates. The vision of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, founding father of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi until 2004, was a future for his people full of opportunity and innovation.

Mubadala Investment Company has played a starring role in fulfilling that ambition, accelerating the emirate’s economic growth through laser-focused deployment of capital in 15 global sectors in 30 countries. With assets totaling US$226 billion, its broad portfolio permeates sectors from aerospace and healthcare to real estate and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

A shared services company, MDC Business Management Services (MDC BMS) provides support in IT, Finance, Procurement, Facility Management and HR for the larger Mubadala Group, Abu Dhabi’s premier strategic investment company. MDC BMS provides expertise in several fields―with a strong focus on ICT—to the MubadalaGroup and external clients.

To support Mubadala Group and external clients, MDC BMS runs 16 applicaitons on 1,500 virtual servers, all on the same storage architecture. Each is mission-critical and performance-intensive, so each requires reactive speed. “Storage plays a vital role in any services you provide,” says Rao, an 11-year veteran of Mubadala. “Servers and analytics rely on storage; the performance of apps, the replication of data into your disaster-recovery center, your security―all rely on storage.”

Previously, the team faced several major challenges in delivering optimal performance to Mubadala and non-Mubadala clients. “We had multiple disk-based storage solutions,” he explains. “We managed seven storage arrays from multiple vendors, which ran to around seven racks, with a high TCO.”

Technical personnel had to schedule extended downtime periods for patching, fixing, and upgrading. The high rack space was also becoming an issue, and performance of the overall ICT infrastructure was sub-optimal.

Reducing Rack Space and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

To overcome these constraints on business efficiency and futureproof the infrastructure—not only for MDC BMS, but for the entire Mubadala Group and its clients―the team sought a solution that could deliver easier day-to-day management, reduced rack space and market-leading IOPS.

MDC BMS selected Everpure FlashArray products to cover production, non-production, disaster recovery and remote-sites operations. FlashArray//X is the world’s first all-flash, 100%-NVMe, shared, accelerated storage designed for mainstream enterprise deployments, and optimized for performance and density.