IImage by Elias Sch. from Pixabay CLIENT The client is a global logistics company that provides air, ocean, freight, truck, and moving services. CHALLENGE Our client was facing issues with a dated disaster recovery (DR) system. Not only had their DR site been neglected, but it could no longer support their current and forecasted production. Additionally, the company was dealing with rising hardware and storage maintenance costs. SOLUTION Because the client had ruled out migrating to a public cloud as an option, Essextec focused on providing a customized private cloud solution built on Cisco and IBM, with Essextec Professional Services tying it all together. The client chose Cisco UCS running VMware for their data center, Cisco Fiber Channel and Core Switches, and Syncsort MIMIX a

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