Actifio,
the copy data virtualization company, today announced that it has been
chosen by Crowley
Maritime Corporation, a 123-year old global leader providing Liner &
Logistics services, Energy Transportation services and Technical
Services, to protect, access, and move its crucial business operations
data. Actifio will enable Crowley to reduce its application and storage
footprint by as much as 50 percent, while simultaneously making its data
more accessible and safer across business units and global geographies.
“Our Technology Transformation Program is an aggressive three year
effort to consolidate and optimize our IT infrastructure in a way that
provides value across all Crowley lines of business, each one with its
own unique needs,” said Edward Sclafani, CTO for Crowley Maritime. “Our
goal was nothing short of updating our entire infrastructure for the 21st
century. Actifio’s unique ability to streamline, protect, and ensure
availability of our core data is critical to the success of this
project.”
At the start of the Technology Transformation Program, Crowley faced
myriad implementations of disparate technologies, resulting in
overlapping technology investments, wasted time and inefficient IT
operations. Storage, in particular, was an issue. IT was constantly
bombarded with requests for new disk and/or tape resources to back up or
provision copies of data for developers. Databases were being copied
back and forth without adequate controls. Server sprawl was common.
Actifio enables Crowley to corral all of the firm’s storage and data.
First, it helped to consolidate duplicate storage resources at the very
basic level, dramatically reducing costs and improving operational
agility and efficiency. Second, Actifio enabled Crowley to shrink the
amount of data stored with de-duplication and compression, which helped
them reduce network traffic.
Actifio’s Service Level Agreement (SLA)-based data management is
allowing Crowley IT to tier or customize data services according to the
needs of the different business units and their unique applications.
Crowley IT now has a more precise understanding of what it costs to
protect and retain different application data. They can then potentially
choose an SLA more suitable for business objectives, for instance with a
lower cost, longer data retention or faster recovery.
“Crowley is a growing company, and IT needs to be well positioned to
scale with this growth,” continued Sclafani. “That means you have to
rely on your partners to be able to scale with you. We’re planning on
Actifio to be there with us as we continue to expand.”
“Crowley is a great example of an organization leveraging Actifio to
transform its IT model from a cost center insulated from the business
into an internal service provider, enabling specific business outcomes,”
says Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio. “We’re proud to have helped them
realize all of the benefits of data virtualization, and even more proud
to be partnering with such a storied company on the next leg of their
journey.”
Crowley
Maritime Presentation at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015
Crowley’s CTO Sclafani will speak about the organization’s experience
using Actifio’s copy data virtualization at the Gartner
Symposium in Orlando, Florida on October 6 at 1:45 pm in room
Southern 1. Actifio will also be discussing its solutions during the
Gartner ITXPO in booth 524.