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The Graham Group offers construction, civil engineering, interior fit-out, and facilities management services to customers across the UK and Ireland. It has over 2,200 employees and 17 offices from Aberdeen to Belfast to Dublin to London.

Challenge

The IT infrastructure in Graham Group is necessarily complex. In addition to operating from multiple office locations, the majority of its staff spend most of their time on client sites. Many of those sites are large construction or engineering projects that involve many different companies, teams, and stakeholders.

The IT infrastructure landscape for Graham Group also constantly changes due to the nature of the business where projects in different locations continuously start and finish. This was putting IT management under strain, particularly in relation to the resources and time required for the provisioning of remote working locations, and the cost of cloud services.

Graham Group also requires robust disaster recovery processes both for its own business and as a contractual requirement for many of the projects it works on. However, the compliance testing of its disaster recovery processes was costly and resource-intensive.

Solution

Our team at Procloud developed a hyperconverged solution for Graham Group to modernise the IT infrastructure. We configured and implemented HPE SimpliVity to simplify management of IT in the company and dramatically reduce provisioning times. Our hyperconverged solution also significantly reduced costs compared to the previous cloud and IT infrastructure costs, and it made disaster recovery testing and compliance much more efficient. As an example, with HPE SimpliVity, it is possible to backup or restore a 1TB virtual machine in about 60 seconds.

Benefits

The hyperconverged solution we developed and implemented for Graham Group made IT management in the company hyper-efficient by delivering capacity savings of 90 percent. Plus, the automation and semi-automation of many previously manual processes freed up IT resources to focus on tasks that add value to the business.

Also, employees in new remote locations now get access to the Graham Group IT infrastructure with minimal delay because of faster provisioning times.

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At Graham Group, we have a very disparate workforce with over 2,000 staff operating from 17 offices around the UK and Ireland, in addition to the staff at the many client sites that we work on.

We were looking for a Strategic Partner to assist us in provisioning a new cost effective, robust and secure infrastructure environment with high availability to support our dynamic and rapidly growing business.

Procloud’s hyperconverged solution using HPE SimpliVity meets all of our needs and more; we have been extremely impressed by ProCloud’s professional approach throughout the implementation and ongoing support of the platform, we have no regrets.

Lorraine Harrison, Director of IT Services

Graham Group