Top guns: Dell’s John Stobie, left, with Ryanair’s Eric Neville
Dell has won a major storage solution deal with Ryanair in a three-way competition against HP and IBM Network Appliances. The deal is worth over €470k.
The airline’s Dublin-based IT headquarters serves over 7,000 employees at 32 bases in 26 countries, so constant access to e-mail and other critical applications is vital.
Ryanair needed to move to a consolidated virtualised environment in order to increase data processing capacity while reducing maintenance and down-time. It also wanted a disaster recovery solution to be set up.
The airline decided to upgrade its data centre infrastructure to manage its internal IT requirements. Ryanair wanted to design, implement and manage a three- to five-year virtualised server and storage solution to run the company’s internal IT infrastructure.
Dell provided Ryanair with a 10GbE EqualLogic solution, a simplified storage solution that delivers 10 times more storage performance for virtualisation and high throughput business applications. It lets Ryanair scale seamlessly over five years to meet the future growth needs and also provides the a robust backup solution.
Ryanair CIO Eric Neville notes: “Increasing demands on the data centre meant we needed a solution that would give us the foundation to build a virtualised environment to allow the company to scale for future expansion.”
He added: “Of critical importance is that Dell has dramatically reduced the time needed to look after the system, freeing up the IT team to focus on delivering more value to the business.”
Dell’s John Stobie, regional sales manager, said: “The solution delivers ease of management while offering increased flexibility and resilience. It allows Ryanair IT to focus more on how they can help meet the company’s business requirements.”
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