SYDNEY, Australia - November 22, 2011
- Village Roadshow, the company that has been entertaining
Australia for over 50 years through theme parks, attractions and
resorts, DVD distributions and cinemas has moved to the cloud via
an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model built on NetApp and
provided by Interactive to cope with its massive data growth.
Village Roadshow previously managed its own
data centre at its Jam Factory headquarters in Melbourne, but due
to continually increasing data demands, it was forced to seek
alternative, more efficient IT solutions.
Village Roadshow engaged Interactive, whose
Tier III data centre is built on NetApp, to provide an
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution to alleviate Village
Roadshow's data management challenges.
Simon Durkin, Director of Sales at
Interactive, said, "Our Tier III data centre is
specifically designed to house data for customers facing huge data
growth. Village Roadshow already had existing NetApp hardware
installed onsite, so the customer was happy with our
recommendations to move its data to our NetApp-based
environment."
David Kindlen, CIO Village
Roadshow, said, "Our data was growing at a phenomenal
rate, and we were running out of space to store it. We needed a
high performance and scalable managed production storage solution
that provided strong business continuity capabilities at a
competitive price to an in-house purchase. I spoke with Interactive
about setting up Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) utilising
hardware from NetApp, with whom we already had technology that we
were very happy with."
All of Village Roadshow's data is now stored
on the NetApp FAS3170 storage system within Interactive's Tier III
data centre in Melbourne. Since moving to this
Infrastructure-as-a-Service model, Village Roadshow's storage is
fully flexible and easily able to cope with the continued data
growth.
Simon Durkin, said, "The significant
investment we have made in our data centre space and technology has
been in anticipation of the increased demand we are seeing from
customers for cloud services. We expect this growth to continue as
more businesses seek the financial and business benefits of the
cloud, combined with the security of our Tier III data centre.
"Interactive has made it a priority to
provide world-class cloud solutions by investing in the best local
talent and building our business on the technologies of trusted
partners including NetApp. We are proud to be able to work with
NetApp to build on the folio of services we already provide Village
Roadshow."
Peter O'Connor, Vice President and Managing
Director, NetApp ANZ, said "The solution that Interactive has
implemented for Village Roadshow is a great example of how huge
amounts of data can be moved easily to the cloud without the hassle
of downtime or data loss. NetApp's service provider partnership
with Interactive is one that has gone from strength to strength as
the Australian market realises the business flexibility that can be
gleaned via IaaS offerings. Not only is Village Roadshow
benefitting from the fact that it now doesn't have the overhead of
storing its ever-growing data onsite, but it gains greater
efficiency and agility benefits that can be reverberated throughout
its entire business."
Interactive's Tier III data
centre:
- 200 co-location racks (built on NetApp)
- Data centre site availability 99.98%
- Dedicated operations centre
- Two additional customer flight-decks (total 5)
- Complies with Uptime Tier III principles - fault tolerant and
concurrently maintainable
- Maximum rack capacity 7kW
- Mains supply is via dedicated on-site 2000KVA transformer
supplying only this data centre floor
- 3 x 1000kVA generators in an N+1 configuration
- Provision for a 4th 1000kVA generator if required
- 10,000 litre bulk diesel fuel tank which provides generator
runtime of 14 hours. Satisifies Uptime Tier IV requirements.
- Fuel transfer pumps are N+1
- Separate main, generator and ATS switchboards
- Switchboards housed in a secure, fire rated, environmentally
controlled room with N+1 CRACS
- 2N power distribution to both UPS and mechanical services
- Each ATS has independent control, no single point of
failures
- Modular ATS which allows rapid replacement in the event of a
failure
About Interactive
Established in 1988, Interactive is one of Australia's most
respected IT service providers. With a focus on systems
availability and customer service, Interactive and its team of over
350 dedicated service staff is the supplier of choice for more than
1,800 of Australia's most successful corporations.
Experts in hardware maintenance, data-centre
hosting, managed services and disaster recovery, Interactive's five
world-class data centres ensure customers can be confident that
business critical data is securely stored. With a state-of-the-art
suite of cloud solutions, Interactive also offers secure and
effective ways for customers looking to migrate to the cloud.
Interactive operates its business carbon
neutral, ensuring that all operations and cloud solutions have a
zero carbon footprint. To find out more about Interactive, visit
www.interactive.com.au.
About Village Roadshow
Village Roadshow was founded by Roc Kirby and first commenced
business in 1954 in Melbourne, Australia and has been listed on the
Australian Securities Exchange since 1988.
Still based in Melbourne, Village Roadshow
Limited ('VRL') is a leading international entertainment company
with core businesses in Theme Parks, Cinema Exhibition, Film
Distribution and Film Production and Music.
All of these businesses are well recognised
retail brands and strong cash flow generators - together they
create a diversified portfolio of entertainment assets.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost
efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around
the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com/au.
Media Contacts:
James Curtis
Max Australia
+61 2 9954 3492
james.curtis@maxaustralia.com.au
Lauren Carter (Interactive)
The PR Edge
(03) 8416-6771
lauren.carter@che.com.au