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to external clients and the Mubadala
Group itself. The company’s Senior
Vice President of Infrastructure and
Operations, Nalluri Subba Rao, is an 11-
year veteran of Mubadala. “We had multiple disk-based storage
solutions,” he explained. “We managed
seven storage arrays from multiple
vendors, which ran to around nine and a
half racks, with a high TCO.”
He sees storage as the backbone of the
company’s offerings. Management of this legacy architecture
had become unwieldy for MDC BMS.
Technical personnel had to schedule
extended downtime periods for patching,
fixing and upgrading. The high rack
space was also becoming an issue
and performance of the overall ICT
infrastructure was sub-optimal.
“Storage plays a vital role in any services
you provide,” said Rao. “Servers and
analytics rely on storage; the performance
of apps, the replication of data into your
disaster-recovery centre, your security –
all rely on storage.”
MDC BMS runs 16 apps on 1,500
virtual servers, all on the same storage
architecture. Each is mission-critical and
performance-intensive, so each requires
reactive speed. Previously, the team faced
several major challenges in delivering
optimal performance to Mubadala and
non-Mubadala clients.
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MDC BMS deploys FlashArray//X
to enhance performance, simplify
maintenance and reduce rack space
To overcome these constraints on
business efficiency and futureproof the
infrastructure – not only for MDC BMS
but for the entire Mubadala Group and
its clients – the team sought a solution
Nalluri Subba Rao, Senior Vice President
of Infrastructure and Operations
that could deliver easier day-to-day
management, reduced rack space and
market-leading IOPS.
MDC BMS selected Pure Storage
FlashArray//X to cover production, non-
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