Flight Centre has just done what no other company has ever done in Queensland – successfully completed the largest data migration in the state’s history.
Finishing the transfer this month, the travel group migrated some 300TBs of data, 170 hosts and 1,600 virtual machines.
The move was made with Australia’s largest privately owned IT services company, Interactive, who handled the data and will continue to partner on further tasks including management of end-to-end responsibility over the data centre environment and legacy compute from IBM and Cisco, as well as Dell storage and CommVault backup.
By outsourcing its infrastructure management, Flight Centre is freeing up resources such as mind power and capital as well as gaining flexibility to grow their business without being locked into a permanent hardware contract.
Peter Wataman, Chief Information Officer, Flight Centre said the project was taken after developing a ‘solid foundation of trust’ with Interactive.
He continued, explaining that it will give the group more room to invest time and resources into focusing on the business and growth in new markets and areas.
“Interactive offered us a scalable platform, which has given us more agility and flexibility to ensure our IT services are delivering what the business needs as it needs it, even pre-empting change in some instances.”
Peter Wataman, Flight Centre Chief Information Officer
“We are excited about this journey and how IT will continue to transform Flight Centre as a business.”
This game changing move for Flight Centre has been delivered by Interactive’s world-class business continuity, hardware maintenance and data centre facilities in Queensland.
