Sunway Group’s IT Shared Services Center has recently purchased RM 1 Million worth of Hitachi Storage.
Hitachi Sunway Information Systems Sdn. Bhd (HSIS) announced that it has sealed its first significant IT storage sale since its joint venture establishment between Hitachi Systems, Ltd. and Sunway Technology Sdn Bhd earlier this year in April.
The close to RM1 million storage consolidation project consists of Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 130 storage systems implementation and support services is made to Sunway Shared Services Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Sunway Berhad (Sunway).
Sunway Group’s IT Shared Services Center is a centralized data center which hosts all data and handles IT application demands from on-premise and remote offices that are spread across its diversified businesses including construction, property development, trading, quarrying, manufacturing, theme parks, medical & healthcare, and hospitality chains.
Dato’ Chew Chee Kin, President of The Sunway Group shares that the group has been experiencing exponential growth and diversification of data due to operational expansion in terms of branches, customer bases and employees.
“The current storage infrastructure of our IT Shared Services Center can no longer handle the massive volume of data and meet the business demands. We recognized the need for an upgrade to continue supporting our rapid growth,” he says.
Recently, Sunway Group’s IT Shared Services Center was certified with the ISO/IEC 27001:2007 Information Security Management System (ISMS) by SIRIM QAS International in recognition of its high commitment in information security, data asset protection, and operational excellence.
Sunway Group said it opted for the Hitachi Data Systems offerings after a three-month evaluation. “Hitachi Unified Storage stands out from the other two prominent storage brands in the market space as it demonstrates high credibility in the areas of overall value, performance, security, and data centralization capabilities,” says Dato’ Chew.
“Another key decisive factor that made Hitachi Data Systems the choice of Sunway lies in the HSIS commitment as an implementation partner working towards improving our data center infrastructure with their proven expertise and track record. The new storage solution can help improve our IT Shared Services Center’s data I/O (Input/Output) performance by up to 500 percent,” adds Dato’ Chew.
Sunway, as a public listed holding company and one of Malaysia’s most recognized property construction groups with businesses worldwide, selected the storage solutions from HSIS is an effort to boost the capabilities and performances of its existing IT Shared Services Center.
The migration of Sunway Group’s entire storage environment onto Hitachi storage solutions is fully completed by the end of September, 2013.