19.4.2011
For the first time in Croatia, Hrvatski Telekom in cooperation with Combis implemented for Gavrilović Group a single IBM XIV system for storage of dana, a system of advanced technological solutions and high performances.
"Gavrilović sees the new technology as an opportunity that will enable us to replace the current heterogeneous set of solution and implement a simple consolidated infrastructure for all companies within the Group. The implementation of this solution transferred the overall business operations of Gavrilović, Diona and Puris to a fast, scalable and reliable system of a new generation. This simplifies the maintenance of the system and enables significantly higher flexibility in managing IT resources, which ensures the adequate monitoring of dynamic business requirements of our companies. The decision to place our trust into Combis and HT arose from the fact that our cooperation on former joint projects was excellent, which is definitely a good base for a continuation of the cooperation." – said Goran Arambašić, member of the Managing Bord of Gavrilović.
Hrvatski Telekom in synergy with Combis expanded the possibility of provision of business solution on the Croatian market, and many leading companies recognized the quality of that synergy, and therefore entrusted the realization of such tasks to HT and Combis.
On the occasion of the implementation of this project, Neven Jakšić, the key business account manager of HT said the following: "We are glad that Gavrilović Group, with which Hrvatski Telekom has been successfully cooperating with for years, opted for HT and Combis when it came to the implementation of IBM XIV system. The accelerated growth in the quantity of digital dana induces companies to manage the information as efficiently as possible. Therefore, the dana storage systems represent an important element of the modern ICT infrastructure. HT is continuously following the trends on the ICT market and accordingly creating the offer of standard and special ICT solutions, which contributes to the further development and optimization of the customers’ business."
IBM XIV is a representative of the next generation of disk systems, and its greatest feature is the fact that is manages dana and allocates them in an innovative way, without using the traditional RAID fields. The advantage of such innovative technology is a short time required for recovery in the case of failure of one of the disks, and at the same time the even use of all resources, i.e. the balanced performance of the entire system.
"We are proud that Combis has been the only IBM System Storage Solution Center in Croatia since 2006. Therefore, we are able to bring new technologies closer to our customers. Besides consolidation and centralization of the traditional dana, these new technologies also offer a high speed, flexibility and scalability with minimum maintenance and administration costs,” said Nikša Petrušić, director of the IT Infrastructure Sector in Combis and continued "By introducing this system, Gavrilović got the infrastructure that satisfies not only the current needs of the company, but also the optimum dana storage requirements, as well as the requirements related to the future upgrade and extension."
Furthermore, the system is simple to use and manage, which means that there is no need for a long and complex process of education and that the adjustment is therefore very fast. In the long run, this new technology will enable the cost optimization on several business levels in Gavrilović Group