Infrastructure & HCI
NISC: Oracle licensing cut in half
A co-operative serving utilities and broadband providers replaced end-of-life systems at eight sites and halved Oracle licensing costs.
Field notes
Notes from the field
Client stories from the field, a look at how we design and deliver solutions, and the latest news from Connex. Practical reads on keeping IT up, secure and on budget, each one pointing to the service it relates to.
Infrastructure & HCI
Milwaukee Water Works: two data centres, no dual SAN
A municipal utility serving 860,000+ residents mirrored storage between two sites without buying two SANs.
Infrastructure & HCI
A big-box retailer: 100 outages a year, gone
About 2,000 stores swapped failing SANs for two servers each, set up remotely in about 40 minutes a site.
Infrastructure & HCI
Giant Eagle: pharmacy data protected in 200+ stores
A grocery and pharmacy chain built three-node clusters with encryption to keep patient data safe and pharmacies running.
Infrastructure & HCI
Sheetz: 830+ stores off VMware, about 200 a month
A convenience chain is replacing VMware in every store, remotely, on the servers already there.
Infrastructure & HCI
A Western Canadian retailer: 120 stores, two servers each
A food and consumer goods chain consolidated in-store servers onto shared, highly available storage across 120 locations.
Infrastructure & HCI
TorIX: two nodes, 3 km apart, no more downtime
Toronto’s non-profit internet exchange replaced an unreplicated setup with a two-node cluster split across two sites.
Infrastructure & HCI
Peace River Regional District: seven years in, renewing for seven more
A northern BC regional district has run Scale since 2017 and approved new nodes to extend the cluster another six to seven years.
Infrastructure & HCI
Edmonton Elks: when 90% of the year happens in 11 days
The CFL club, then the Edmonton Eskimos, moved CCTV and operations onto a two-site cluster because it cannot afford downtime on game day.
Infrastructure & HCI
Country Grocer: 10 stores on Vancouver Island, in under three months
A family-owned grocery chain replaced point-of-sale servers running on desktops with three-node clusters in every store.
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