Early in 2019, Soul Machines contacted Talon Storage with interest in their Talon FAST product. Talon and Citrus Consulting Group already had a great working relationship, and a joint meeting at Soul Machines was arranged. The plan was to use Talon software as an option to assist their remote users from around the world with improved performance.

After a number of meetings, Citrus Consulting started discussions with Sam Brightheart, Head of IT at Soul Machines, regarding the current storage environment, and how Soul Machines wanted their future infrastructure to look like.

Multiple whiteboard sessions took place to design the best infrastructure environment, that importantly, integrated with the various cloud technologies. Citrus Consulting organised for some of the NetApp Senior Technical Team from Australia to join these sessions and after several months, a plan for which technologies would accommodate the long-term strategy of Soul Machines was achieved.