Dell Customer (Quebec-based) Instrumentation GDD Inc. Upgrades IT Infrastructure and Implements End-to-End Data Centre
Dell Customer Instrumentation GDD Inc. Upgrades IT Infrastructure and Implements End-to-End Data Centre
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- Prepares for future growth by installing new virtualized environment
- Migrates entire system with no disruption to business or customers
- Adopts consultative approach, working with Dell to achieve optimum results
Dell designed and installed a new turnkey IT solution for Quebec-based Instrumentation GDD Inc., a world leader in high-tech geophysical and electronic instrumentation for mining, exploration and geophysics. The new virtual environment leverages Dell’s growing end-to-end data centre capabilities, including Dell servers, storage and networking. The solution streamlines deployment and management while facilitating simpler, future upgrades to easily scale IT as the company’s business grows.
Instrumentation GDD turned to Dell’s broad data centre portfolio to upgrade its IT infrastructure in order to handle the company’s anticipated expansion with a significant new product launch later this year. The company required a new ERP system, new IP phone system, increased storage, improved back-up capabilities and enhanced security, as well as a system capable of running its older, highly specialized design software.
Dell, working with its PartnerDirect Preferred Channel Partner Jolera, planned the new IT infrastructure, and implemented it in just eight days, with no downtime or disruption to staff or customers. The new solution includes Dell PowerEdge R620 and R310 servers, Dell EqualLogic PS4100X storage, a Dell PowerVault 124T tape autoloader for unattended automated back-up, Dell PowerConnect 6224, and Force10 S50N switches.
With a virtualized environment and covered by a Dell Service Agreement, Instrumentation GDD and its 20 employees work with Dell and Jolera to manage their IT environment helping save both time and cost. The new infrastructure is sufficiently robust to handle the company’s increasing storage and back-up requirements, while providing a highly scalable environment to accommodate future expansion.
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“Storage and back-up capabilities were our prime concerns. We have customers in remote mining locations around the world who rely on us 24 x 7 to provide product support on their highly specialized geophysical and electronic instrumentation. We need to store and retrieve detailed diagrams and data pertaining to every piece of equipment we’ve ever sold. We need 100 per cent availability and can’t afford back-up failure or for a PC or server to go down. Dell understood our needs, provided innovative solutions, managed the relationships between our various service providers and looked after us impeccably. We were delighted by how smooth and painless the process was.” – Pierre Gaucher, President, Instrumentation GDD, Inc.
“As a high-tech company, Instrumentation GDD understands how having the right technology in place can transform an organization. They were ready for a major upgrade of their IT infrastructure to accommodate growing demand, and Dell’s end-to-end data centre capabilities were a perfect fit. Collaboration with our channel partners is critically important to us, and we were delighted to work with Jolera to identify and solve problems to meet Instrumentation GDD’s short-term needs and, more importantly, to facilitate future growth.” – David Miketinac, VP and GM, SMB, Dell Canada.
About Instrumentation GDD Inc.
Based in Quebec, Instrumentation GDD is a world leader in high-tech geophysical and electronic instrumentation for mining exploration, geophysical and environmental leveling surveys. Since 1977 it has developed, manufactured and sold a wide range of electromagnetic, leveling and induced polarization geophysical instruments to mining and exploration companies around the world.
About Jolera
Jolera is an award winning end-to-end national Information Technology services provider. As a Dell Canada services GEOpartner that delivers Dell-branded professional and managed services across Canada, Jolera’s services portfolio includes hardware/software procurement, certified professional services, software development services (including Microsoft SharePoint™), and a complete suite of managed services (server colocation, virtualization services, 24/7/365 help desk, managed servers, managed network devices, network monitoring, online backup and online email anti-spam/anti malware).
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