CASE STUDY: APERIO

Australasia’s largest flexible packaging

manufacturer, Aperio, is enjoying

the benefits of moving its storage

and managed services requirements

to Interactive, Australia’s leading IT

systems availability services provider.

Delivering exceptional return on

investment for the business’ ICT

infrastructure, Interactive provides

managed IT services for Aperio,

including co-location via its Sydney

data centre, heightened security and

faster access to shared services and

information for all its thirteen sites in

Asia Pacific as the business continues

to expand.

“Interactive’s Managed Services solution

gives us access to newer infrastructure

at a low ongoing cost, delivering the

best possible return on investment for

our IT expenditure. For the same cost

per month, we could have upgraded our

Control, Speed, Growth: Aperio has the whole package with Interactive’s managed services solution

core site at Chester Hill and still have

all the potential issues we had before

coming to Interactive,” said Blair Hope,

CFO, Aperio.

Instead, Interactive’s solution provides

all the benefits of a high availability

managed services infrastructure,

including utilisation of managed virtual

servers and managed storage services

for primary servers, managed firewall

services, end-to-end management

of production environment, internet

access, backup solution and faster

access for all sites to share services.

“We didn’t need to outlay hundreds of

thousands of dollars in replacement of

switches and support, as the focus is

off our core site and will be supported

by the best possible technology at

Interactive’s local data centre,” he

added.

“Interactive’s Managed Services solution

gives us access to newer infrastructure at a

low ongoing cost, delivering the best possible

return on investment for our IT expenditure.

For the same cost per month, we could have

upgraded our core site and still have all the

potential issues we had before coming to

Interactive,” Blair Hope, CFO, Aperio.

ChallengeAperio required a managed services solution to deliver more bandwidth and increased resilience to cope with the growing demands of the business. SolutionInteractive provides managed IT services for Aperio across thirteen sites in Asia Pacific, including co-location via its Sydney data centre, heightened security and faster access to shared services and information. ValueAperio now has access to the best technology and expertise, significantly improving business efficiencies and providing maximum system and data security.

IndustryFlexible packaging manufacturer

www.interactive.com.au

“Ultimately, we sought a solution that would

make our ICT infrastructure work harder

to deliver more bandwidth and increased

resilience, to cope with the growing demands

of our business, rather than significantly

investing in a completely new system or

resources,” Blair Hope, CFO, Aperio.

Where there is business growth, an

increase in data inevitably follows

– however Aperio’s former ICT

infrastructure, at the capacity it was

at and flexibility it offered, limited the

company’s ability to meet the needs of its

remote sites and provide the security and

protection required for its customer data.

“Ultimately, we sought a solution that

would make our ICT infrastructure

work harder to deliver more bandwidth

and increased resilience, to cope with

the growing demands of our business,

rather than significantly investing in a

completely new system or resources,”

said Hope.

For the solution, Aperio turned to

Interactive, who had already been

providing hardware maintenance services

for Aperio and had impressed Aperio

with an adaptive response to its unique

business needs.

Developed and managed by Interactive’s

Business Solutions Group (BSG), the

customised Managed Services solution

means Aperio’s 13 virtual servers are

all run off Interactive’s highly scalable

VMware Virtual Farm, with all data

replicated between its existing Chester

Hill site and one of Interactive’s five

Data Centres.

To ensure maximum resiliency and

security of the corporate infrastructure,

Aperio also opted for Interactive’s

managed storage services to provide

recovery of virtual systems and critical

production data, and managed firewalls

across Australia and New Zealand.

Crucially, Aperio maintains full control

over its servers and has the flexibility

to turn up or turn down the solution to

fit their business needs, with the ability

to reallocate memory and the central

processing unit across production virtual

servers to allow for peak usage periods

within the hosted environment.

“Via Interactive, we have access to the

best technology and expertise that

significantly improves our business

efficiencies, and provides maximum

system and data security, which would

not have been possible with our older

systems or an on-site solution,” he

added.

Via Interactive, we

have access to the best

technology and expertise

that significantly improves

our business efficiencies,

and provides maximum

system and data security

Interactive Pty Ltdwww.interactive.com.au

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