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Supricel Group: Server virtualisation assures logistics firm’s growth
Challenge
Rapid business growth and a lack of standardisation meant some group companies were using different applications for similar tasks
Solution
BT’s solution incorporates MPLS-based VPN and VSAT services serving 41 sites with a hosted virtual server and storage environment
Value
Virtualisation has provided Supricel with a flexible and scalable infrastructure that will support future business growth, while lowering capital costs
Challenge
A major Brazilian services group, Supricel began its life as a logistics company and now has 41 sites nationwide. In additional to the core cargo business, which operates across the whole of Brazil, it has subsidiaries engaged in running motorway service stations, residential construction, and restaurants.
As a holding company for the business’s interests, the creation of Supricel Group in 2009 coincided with an increase in demand for corporate IT applications. A robust technology platform was needed to support growth, which at the time was hitting 15 to 20 per cent a year. At the same time, there was an applications management issue. Lack of standardisation meant, for example, that some group companies were using different applications to carry out the same tasks. Among other things, this meant the company was spending more than needed on software licences.
To bring order to the situation, Supricel Group recruited Willian Domingues as Corporate IT Manager. One of his first initiatives was to survey the systems environment.
“I became convinced that, although it would involve a paradigm break for the business, server virtualisation would be the answer to our problems,” recalls Willian.
This was because such a move would tick three essential boxes: sustainability, ease of use in deploying and accessing applications, and cost effectiveness.