Success Story - HEB Construction

In early 2018, HEB Construction contacted Citrus Consulting Group to assist them with their unstructured file system consolidation. Their preferred products were NetApp ONTAP and Talon FAST. HEB were also in the process of planning their head office relocation, so they decided to migrate the entire data centre to Microsoft Azure and not build one at the new location.

Their goal was for 12 sites across New Zealand to have all unstructured data stored in the Cloud on NetApp systems based on Azure, and then use Talon FAST to cache the data back to the sites. Working with Steve Beckwith and his team at HEB, Citrus Consulting worked with Talon Storage on their proof of concept, so that once all goals had been achieved, it was a simple process to roll out the Talon FAST edge systems to other sites.

About a year later, the cost of the Cloud-based storage was proving expensive for production workloads, and HEB asked if Citrus had a way to bring the data back to New Zealand and provide a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy in a more cost-effective way.