Customer Stories
5G Networks

Consolidating Data Centers for Top Performance

When consolidating data centers into a single new built-for-purpose facility, telecommunications-provider 5G Networks needed to minimize customer disruptions while ensuring data integrity and security—and did so with Pure Storage.

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Summary

5G Networks serves corporate and government clients across Australia with telecommunications services, co-location, data centre and outsourced infrastructure provision, MSP, and Managed IT services. With storage as the heart of its business, the company prioritizes data integrity, security, and availability. As part of a data centre consolidation, 5G Networks adopted Pure Storage, gaining very stable and very fast performance while reducing its storage footprint, power consumption, and management burden.

Industry

Telecommunications

GEO

Asia Pacific, Japan

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications

Website

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Challenges

Set up a new data centre while minimizing customer impact
Reduce environmental impact of data centers
Spend less time manually managing storage environment

Results

Business Transformation

Consolidate two leased data centers into a single, built-for-purpose data centre
Deliver fast, reliable services for corporate and government clients
Migrated thousands of live customer services with little to no service interruptions

IT Transformation

Migrated 1.5 petabytes of data in half the expected time
Decreased rack footprint by 65%, reducing power and cooling
Focused resources on customer service by streamlining storage management

“It was a huge project involving the movement and consolidation of 1.5 petabytes of data and thousands of live customer services that needed to be maintained with an absolute minimum of disruption.”

Wahab Khan

Head of Cloud and Platforms, 5G Networks

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