DIALOG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

A 20% Reduction in Storage Costs When Compared To Competitors

ESTABLISHED IN 1979

1,200 Information Technology Specialists
Located in 7 major cities across Australia

PRODUCTS USED

DiGiCOR S462-DE8-DRS
DiGiCOR S283-DE8-DRS
DiGiCOR S3283-DR (JBOD)
Supermicro SuperServer F619P2-RT
DiGiCOR S283-DS228-MDR

Dialog is Australia’s leading technology services organisation trading nationally from offices throughout Australia. Dialog employs over 1,200 information technology specialists for a wide range of industries, including health, finance, education, government, and many more. Dialog’s business consultants and technology specialists help organisations get the best from their information technology investment. The Dialog group includes AccessHQ, CatapultBI, ICEMEDIA, and Innodev.

In May 2013, Dialog approached DiGiCOR to assist them in providing a large-scale cluster of storage with powerful processing power. We put careful attention to detail with their demands to come up with a perfect solution according to the client’s needs as long-term solution.

HIGHLIGHTS

OBJECTIVES

Assist Dialog in providing a large-scale cluster of software with powerful processing power
Provide computing nodes and storage that are able to run Google Enterprise software
Provide a large storage repository and data integrity

HOW WE HELPED

Provided Dialog with highly customisable computing nodes for processing of applications and 520TB of Software Defined Storage system

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

DiGiCOR S462-DE8-DRS

DiGiCOR S283-DE8-DRS

RESULTS

The solution we provided met the high-scale, high-performance application requirements Google Enterprise posed.
Dialog is saving about 20% of their storage costs compared to mainstream supplier hardware
The server and storage solution are capable of enterprise-class capabilities

Challenges

Digicor had a variety of challenges surrounding this project in providing an enterprise solution with a limited budget. Dialog approached Digicor as they needed to compute nodes and storage to be able to run Google Enterprise software. Prior to this, Dialog had no existing infrastructure to run these applications.

Google Enterprise allows users to customise Google Maps and zoom in at incredibly great detail and document these images. Furthermore, as these are highly detailed images, Dialog required a large storage repository and data integrity was paramount.

How We Helped

Digicor provided Dialog with highly customised compute nodes for processing applications and a 520TB Software Defined Storage system based on the ZFS file system for the storage requirement. The compute nodes are made up of 5 nodes in a 4RU chassis.

Results

Our solution met the high-scale, high-performance application requirements Google Enterprise posed. The hardware solution provided has allowed Dialog to continue their enterprise consulting with the peace of mind that their infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and backed by Digicor, one of the most successful solution providers in Australia.

The storage and server solution provided by Digicor provides Dialog with enterprise-class capabilities focusing on issues that arise due to ever-growing datasets and allows Dialog to choose their storage operating system independently of the hardware it runs on. Additionally, the SDS solution also aids Dialog in implementing high-performance, cost-effective data storage olutions with features such as inline deduplication, unlimited snapshots, cloning and full HA support. With the storage system based on commodity hardware, Dialog is saving around 20% of their storage costs compared to mainstream supplier hardware.