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How Crider Foods Designed an Infrastructure for Tomorrow
Crider Foods is the largest marketer and processor of shelf stable and fully cooked products for customers around the globe. As a food supplier to the world, they have a commitment to provide the industry’s highest level of quality, service, and corporate integrity for our retail, food service, school, and institutional customers. Crider is very proud of their SQF (Safe Quality Food) Level 3 status. Being SQF certified for three consecutive years is a testament to their customer commitment.
When Crider foods wanted to modernize their data center, they turned to the experts at the PC Connection family of companies to tackle data center growth and new virtual servers, virtual desktop, power, and racking equipment upgrades. Deploying Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors helped them enhance manageability, provide higher security, gain greater data access, and reduce costs.
Ron Sasser, IT Manager for Crider Foods, was tasked with updating the IT infrastructure, while maintaining control over all the operations. Crider has grown to 900 employees with widespread market recognition. Many of the nation’s top food companies entrust Crider with their brand’s reputation.
RUNNING OUT OF SPACE Prior to the start of the project, Crider was running a standard total of 18 fat client servers—all over seven years old. Space had become an issue, and they determined that it was imperative to migrate to and grow with new technology that could handle their large amounts of data. “We filled up our access, running the live servers. We got so big. We were having problems with getting our backups completed in time,” Sasser explained.
SETTLING ON A STRONG SOLUTION Confronted with designing a new infrastructure, Crider worked with PC Connection to find the best solution. ”After reviewing everything with PC Connection, we determined that a virtual environment was going to cut our purchasing costs by 70% compared to the standard choices of going with the fat client. “
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The PC Connection team evaluated the pros and cons across a number of options, and Sasser agreed that Cisco stood out as having strong networking capabilities. He continued, “Cisco worked really well with the storage that we chose, doing a lot of back-end, better transferring of data without bogging down the network.” Crider decided to use Cisco servers since they also needed to upgrade their firewall. According to Sasser, “They had a really great solution with high performance and expandability going forward—which was going to really help impact our company.”
With PC Connection’s help, Crider deployed Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors—setting themselves up to grow and expand. “We wanted to make sure that we were in a position to just add more storage or a couple arrays, without completely needing to migrate to some new equipment in five years,” Sasser summarized.
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