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The customer | Province of Antwerp
The province of Antwerp is a dynamic and multifaceted organization. The province's complex IT infrastructure plays a key role in its day-to-day operations and services. The province was looking for a partner to renew its infrastructure, from servers to storage, back-up, and managed services.
The challenge | Tailored, sustainable infrastructure
The province of Antwerp faced several challenges:
An outdated IT infrastructure ranging from servers to storage and back-up systems.
The need to find a sustainable solution in line with its core values.
Finding a partner that could offer flexibility, manageability, and ease of use.
One of the province's key values is sustainability, a factor that weighed heavily in the choice of its new infrastructure.
Our approach | Developing a complete solution
Bart Brandsen, Infrastructure & Operations Manager at the province, and his team drew up a detailed specification covering the province's technical requirements and sustainability goals. Xylos took part in the tender and submitted a thoroughly developed proposal. After a careful evaluation of all submissions, Xylos was selected from among four candidates. The choice was based on its ability to deliver a complete solution that was not only technologically advanced, but also aligned with the province's sustainability goals.
The solution | A flexible, manageable, and user-friendly environment
Together with the customer, we opted for an approach that combines the technological expertise of both HPE and VMware to create a hyperconverged infrastructure. This infrastructure is specifically tailored to the needs and sustainability goals of the province of Antwerp. The HPE servers and VMware vSAN provide a flexible, manageable, and user-friendly environment. Cohesity was integrated for back-up, disaster recovery, and data management. Everything is offered on a pay-per-use model, which delivers cost savings and efficiency.
The result | A robust, future-proof infrastructure
The province of Antwerp once again has a modern, flexible, and sustainable IT infrastructure. The collaboration with Xylos has resulted in a solution that is not only technologically advanced but also aligned with the province's sustainability goals (e.g. recycling old IT equipment).