Hybrid Cloud Case Study
Evaluating Their Options
Montgomery Radiology’s CIO requested hardware and cloud quotes to financially and technically analyze the vital IT expansion.
The CEO and Task Force Team were shocked by the TCO differences between their options.
The Issue at Hand in this Hybrid Cloud Case Study
Montgomery Radiology found it necessary to consider IT expansion to implement compliance advancements and new software purchased for radiologist.
They researched their options and came to two choices:
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• Add an on-prem system to meet the new stringent hardware requirements
• Host new application in the cloud
Montgomery Radiology also had pressure from their CEO and Task Force Team to move to the cloud because of anticipated cost reduction.
Evaluating Their Options
Montgomery Radiology’s CIO requested hardware and cloud quotes to financially and technically analyze the vital IT expansion.
The CEO and Task Force Team were shocked by the TCO differences between their options.
Cost Options
Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
Turnkey Solution
$35,830
per month
✔ Affordable Business Continuity
✔ GEO-Redundancy Included
Compute and Backup
✔ Rapid Rollback
✔ World Class Intel Hardware
Azure Cloud Services
Plus Managed Services
$57,510
per month
✘ Overpriced Business Continuity
✘ GEO-Redundancy – Additional Charge;
Zone Redundant Storage Only
✘ Time Consuming Backups
✘ Hardware Unknown
Hybrid Cloud Case Study Conclusion:
On-Prem Purchase Advantages
- Nfina’s Hyperconverged provides high performance and low latency: < 5 ms on-prem vs ~100 ms cloud
- The hybrid cloud solutions delivers more copies of their data plus cluster-to-cluster replication reduces risk
- $21,680 monthly savings; $1,300,800 savings over 5-years
- Financial savings for on-prem solution easily justifies the expense of in-house IT Staff over the next five years and boost their IT Help Desk capabilities and turn around time
- Fixed-site cloud infrastructure is always more expensive than on-prem
The Issue at Hand in this Hybrid Cloud Case Study
- CCB found it necessary to replace aging infrastructure. The C-Suite wanted to look at the Cloud.
- Strengthen data protection by ensuring proper financial security compliance with international, federal, and local laws, industry standards and advisory regulations.
- Establish a Cybersecurity Policy and Incident Response Plan outlining clear action scenarios for different situations that CBB may find itself in.
Evaluating Their Options
- CCB C-Suite management requested hardware and cloud quotes to financially and technically analyze the vital IT expansion
- The Hybrid Cloud IT Expansion Requirements: 13 Servers, 180 Cores, 69 Windows VMs, 1.66TB RAM, 57TB SSD Storage
- C-Suite management was overwhelmed with the cost for the Azure public cloud solution
69 Windows VM’s w/HA,
57TB SSD Storage with Backup
Hybrid Cloud Case Study – Figure 1
Cost Options
Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
Turnkey Solution
$22,944
per month
✔ Affordable Business Continuity
✔ GEO-Redundancy Included
Compute and Backup
✔ Rapid Rollback
✔ World Class Intel Hardware
Azure Cloud Services
Plus Managed Services
$45,448
per month
✘ Overpriced Business Continuity
✘ GEO-Redundancy – Additional Charge;
Zone Redundant Storage Only
✘ Time Consuming Backups
✘ Hardware Unknown
Hybrid Cloud Case Study Conclusion:
Nfina Hybrid Cloud Turnkey Solution
- Nfina’s hyperconverged solution provides high performance and low latency: < 5 ms on-prem vs ~100 ms cloud
- More copies of their data plus cluster-to-cluster replication reduces risk
- $22,504 monthly savings; $1,350,240 5-year savings for Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
- Eliminated the need and expense of in-house IT Staff
- This hybrid cloud case study illustrates that the Hyperscale cloud infrastructure is much more expensive
Vidsys Corporation (i.e. Vidsys.com, an Ares Security Company) is a leading provider of Converged Security & Information Management Solutions since 2005. They help organizations streamline their security operations to reduce risk, manage security events in real-time, and respond to incidents more effectively. They have hundreds of security enterprise customers as well. One of their most notable high-profile customers is Apple Computer.
The Issue at Hand
Vidsys had an infrastructure that consisted of aging non clustered virtualized servers and single node storage, and as it turned out, many VM’s that weren’t being backed up properly. They needed upgrading and technical support, and they evaluated several alternatives before choosing Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud and Unified Storage Solutions (which are fully managed solutions).
Ares:
156 Cores
1.79TB RAM
100+ VM’s
106TB Storage
Vidsys:
72 Cores
1.2TB RAM
124 VM’s w/HA
52TB Storage
Cost Options
Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
Turnkey Solution
$7,350
per month
✔ Affordable Business Continuity
✔ GEO-Redundancy Included
Compute and Backup
✔ Rapid Rollback
✔ World Class Intel Hardware
Azure Cloud Services
Plus Managed Services
$18,768
per month
✘ Overpriced Business Continuity
✘ GEO-Redundancy – Additional Charge;
Zone Redundant Storage Only
✘ Time Consuming Backups
✘ Hardware Unknown
Hybrid Cloud Case Study Conclusion:
Nfina Hybrid Cloud Turnkey Solution
- High performance and low latency: < 5 ms on-prem vs ~100 ms cloud
- More copies of their data plus cluster-to-cluster replication reduces risk
- $11,418 monthly savings; $685,080 savings over 5-years
- Eliminated the need and expense of in-house IT Staff
- Hyperscale cloud infrastructure is much more expensive
The Issue at Hand
- The Lathan Company’s aging infrastructure required replacing
- Strengthen data protection to include data backup that could easily be recovered in case of cyber attack, data loss, a server crash, or even a natural disaster
- Create a cybersecurity policy and response plan for different situations that may disrupt or compromise information systems
Evaluating Their Options
- The Lathan Company management requested quotes to analyze needed IT upgrades and conduct on-prem versus cloud comparison
- IT Expansion Requirements: 1 Server, 16 Cores, 3 Windows VMs w/ HA, 96GB RAM, 3TB SSD Storage with Backup
- Management was disappointed with the cost for the public cloud solution
3 Windows VM’s w/HA,
3TB SSD Storage with Backup
Cost Options
Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
Turnkey Solution
$1,280
per month
✔ Affordable Business Continuity
✔ GEO-Redundancy Included
Compute and Backup
✔ Rapid Rollback
✔ World Class Intel Hardware
Azure Cloud Services
Plus Managed Services
$2,565
per month
✘ Overpriced Business Continuity
✘ GEO-Redundancy – Additional Charge;
Zone Redundant Storage Only
✘ Time Consuming Backups
✘ Hardware Unknown
Hybrid Cloud Case Study Conclusion:
Nfina Hybrid Cloud Turnkey Solution
- Nfina’s Edge Server provides high performance and low latency: < 5 ms on-prem vs ~100 ms cloud
- $1,285 monthly savings; $77,100 5-year savings for Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
- Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud was 1/2 the cost of the public cloud solution
- Professional Services eliminated the need for in-house IT Staff
“Nfina stood out by understanding our critical business issues and designed a solution that best fit our specific needs.”
– Brad Hill, Montgomery Radiology