CASE STUDY
As a Solutions Architect with PC Connection observed, “The AddThis team is really smart and knows what they’re doing. They get into the depths of utilizations of their machines—tune their software to behave to the level of their hardware. They understand their environment so well that it really helped us in determining what industry platforms would work best for them.”
IT’S ABOUT THE TEAMWORK
AddThis worked closely with PC Connection to bring in two demo units from different vendors for evaluation. After putting the units through their paces, recording and graphing a series of metrics, AddThis chose a HP ProLiant server that packed 8 servers into 4U. The density of this product made it the perfect fit for their growing infrastructure, where often hundreds of servers will tag team to complete one certain task.
After making the product choice, PC Connection and AddThis worked with HP to get the servers ready for deployment through HP’s Factory Express service. “[HP] actually builds all of the servers in their factory in Houston, and then they rack, cable, label, test, and configure all the units to your specifications, which is a huge time saver,” Tomasello said. “By the time they left the factory, they were ready to go and all set with our specifications.”
Once the servers were delivered to each of the company’s data centers, Tomasello said it was about a three-day process to get them all running at about 50% production load— the fastest turnaround Tomasello has ever seen.
“[PC CONNECTION IS] A VITAL PART OF OUR TEAM HERE.
THEY’RE KIND OF AN EXTENSION OF OUR OPERATIONS TEAM, AND WE COULDN’T GET OUR JOBS DONE WITHOUT THEM.”
ANDY TOMASELLO, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, ADDTHIS ONE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT LEADS TO THE NEXT
With the new servers deployed in their data centers, Tomasello and his team have been able to work more quickly, and the increased capacity has let them add projects without issues. “We have confidence in the hardware and a surplus of systems we can hand out to teams over the rest of the year. It really eases our job because we know we have that extra room to work,” Tomasello said.
This won’t be the last time Tomasello calls on PC Connection for their expertise. In fact, AddThis is already planning to refresh a storage node in each data center to something more robust, and they’ll have their trusted partners at PC Connection to facilitate that rollout. “They’re a vital part of our team here,” Tomasello said. “They’re kind of an extension of our operations team, and we couldn’t get our jobs done without them.”
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