The Who
- World-renowned fast-food chain
- 900 UK restaurants
- 50 brand-operated restaurants, with the remaining number as franchises
The Challenge
- Experiencing issues with SQL database - a critical system
- Resulting performance challenges and uptime problems
- Hosted on legacy IBM hardware reaching end of life
- Growing costly to support
- Needed to discover if SQL issues due to hardware or configuration
The Solution
- Facilitated IBM and SQL experts to conduct health check
- Health check and audit turned into troubleshooting exercise
- Discovered firmware updates not patched
- Aging hardware estate identified as cause
- Produced 160-page report on the benefits of moving to Nutanix
The Benefits
- Report proposed new hyperconverged infrastructure
- Highlighted how SQL infrastructure could perform
- Demonstrated headroom for infrastructure expansion
- Access to SQL expert meant savings on dedicated head
- Significantly improved performance
- Huge savings in support
Why Servium?
- Cognisant of critical need for SQL to be done right
- Mobilised the right technical resource quickly
- Added value in scaled resource across multiple live projects
