Turner Industries was exploring modernization of its Tier 3 infrastructure in both their production and disaster recovery data centers when Sirius was engaged in January 2019. At this time, the organization was gathering independent bids for data resiliency, infrastructure, networking and security. Sirius proposed acting as a dedicated integration advisor to ensure the selection of complementary technolo- gies across the stack, including a design led by Sirius’ highly certified engineers that would address Turner Industries’ present and future needs while mitigating risks and lowering costs.

The process began with architectural workshops attended by Sirius consultants
and the client’s technical and line-of-business leaders. During the workshop, Sirius and the client explored policies and planning, ideal end-state needs, data center migration plans and the process to evaluate “best fit” technologies. The workshops provided information needed by Sirius engineering experts to provide design expertise on the new enterprise infrastructure, as well as implementation steps and migration plans.

All this led to the creation of a request for proposal (RFP) document ready for delivery to a list of manufacturers capable of meeting or exceeding the client’s requirements around infrastructure, networking, security and data resiliency. Using Sirius as the focal point for all communications saved valuable time for the client’s IT resources. Sirius also directed the design so that collaboration among partners on every technology was in harmony throughout the stack for this wholesale change

to the client’s IT ecosystem. Sirius used the RFP process and its relationships with partners to ensure the most competitive price points. Once the determinations were made on the technical solutions, Sirius continued to manage communications and provide technical oversight of the project. The project was a success according to the Turner Industries Director of Information Security Scott Gautreau. “We completely transformed our data centers from a traditional architecture to a hyperconverged infrastructure that allows us to continue to expand and seamlessly switch between data centers in case of a disaster or some other necessity.”

Sirius Director of Sales and General Manager Chris Wolfe added, “Instead of the architecture and cost of the solution being driven by predetermined technologies, our client relied on Sirius to define requirements and evaluate technologies to obtain a short list of complementary technologies across the stack that would serve their unique needs. We’re very pleased that our client got the best solution with the least risk at the lowest possible cost.”