The adoption of Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco UCS has opened up new business possibilities for Malicis and its customers.Ī large architectural firm, for example, had invested heavily in another vendor’s hyperconverged servers to support its 75 virtual workstations and graphics-intensive workloads. “There is less complexity to manage, the synchronization between our two data centers is very fast, and the performance, stability, and security of our DaaS and DRaaS offerings are far better.” “Everything is tightly integrated, and it all works great,” Lapierre says. The platform also works seamlessly with third-party solutions like NVIDIA GPU, Veeam Availability Suite, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and VMware vSphere, which Malicis resells as part of its service offerings. And it’s easy to deploy new servers and client environments.”

“HyperFlex and UCS give us a ton of processing power and resource flexibility. “We needed something that is more resilient and easier to manage,” says Lapierre, noting the shortage of senior IT professionals and the need for operational efficiency and speed. He chose the combination of Cisco HyperFlex and the Intel ® Xeon ® processor-based Cisco UCS. With increasing demand for its DaaS and DRaaS offerings, Lapierre needed to simplify and supercharge the firm’s technology underpinnings. “We had to choose our customers very carefully and make sure their workload would fit our environment,” says Lapierre, recalling the inflexibility of Malicis’ former data center infrastructure. While his firm’s virtual desktop and disaster recovery services have always been in high demand, they used to come with limitations. In the past, Marc-André Lapierre, founder and CEO of Malicis, had to be judicious with prospective customers and selective about their workloads.

Opened sales pipeline to onboard new customersĬhallenge: Reduce service delivery limitations.

Increased resource flexibility and infrastructure scalability.Reduced the cost of hardware, licensing, and service delivery.Cisco Unified Computing System ™ (Cisco UCS).Integrate service offerings with third party solutions.Improve the performance and stability of IT services.Of 30 specialists, Malicis serves more than 150 clients and has completed more than 500 mandates in Canada, Europe, and Founded in Montréal, Canada, in 2006, Malicis is a boutique consulting firm specializing in desktop and systems virtualization.

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