Case Studies

Barlow Robbins Reduces its Backup Window by 400% and its Operational Expenditure by 15% with MTI

MTI effectively carried out a complete refresh of Barlow Robbins’ IT systems. The implementation included installing an EMC VNX 5300 SAN at the law firm’s Guildford and Woking sites, both with fast, local and remote protection. With only a third of its servers virtualised, the MTI team also installed a Quantum i40 tape library and enabled Barlow Robbins to virtualise all of its remaining servers.

MTI Cures Christ's College Cambridge's Storage Woes

MTI was able to offer Christ’s College a free-of-charge consultancy exercise which analysed the situation with an accurate understanding of the technologies involved. As an EMC partner, MTI also arranged for EMC to discuss various solutions with Christ’s College directly, which helped resolve the issues they were facing.

MTI was able to recommend a tailored solution, which was tested in their solution centre to ensure any new configurations would meet existing and future requirements, especially with regards to customer service and support.

A Remotely-Manageable Cloud Backup Solution

Sabio came to MTI requiring a backup solution for their satellite office in Scotland - the office had no current backup solution in place, nor any staff to administer such a solution. This scenario meant that Sabio was exposed to the risk of data loss and needed to implement a solution quickly and efficiently.

European Hosting Company Cobweb Integrates Vblock 1

The “Cobweb Cloud” model has seen great traction in the mid-size and enterprise space. In order to meet this market demand Cobweb required a scalable and efficient “pay-asyou-grow” virtualisation and compute platform.

After many months of testing the Vblock with MTI it proved to satisfy the needs of the business. Paul Hannam CEO of Cobweb states, “the VCE coalition supported by MTI has presented an exciting opportunity for Cobweb and this new Vblock offering enables us to broaden our reach with the “Cobweb Cloud” satisfying the needs of enterprise business for both private, public and hybrid clouds.”

Achieving Cost-Savings, Rationalisation & Performance Improvement via Virtualised Storage

Despite its truly global reach and 24x7 operational profile, Sinclair International – which now supplies over 80% of the world's fruit labels – runs a small, tight IT resource, led by its IT Manager Barry Watts. His problem: to maintain what is still positively contributing to the company's needs in terms of data control and information archiving, whilst refreshing the underlying infrastructure and, if possible, realising some of the cost benefits of a move to a virtualised alternative – without breaking the bank.

MTI Provides a Virtualised Desktop Solution to Meet the Needs of Toyota GB

MTI was chosen by Toyota GB to provide a complete virtualised desktop solution to provide services to users across the UK. The MTI Solution saw each existing PC replaced with a centralised virtual desktop environment. Samsung thin client hardware was combined with VMware View software. This now provides users with a personalised and uncompromised view of their desktop over existing local area networks, that can be displayed through any capable device.

Bridgend College: MTI Reduce Storage Space Consolidate Business Continuity

MTI's solution has enabled Bridgend College to significantly reduce the amount of storage space taken up by the raft of user data stored on its system, while enabling it to enhance its growth levels.