In collaboration with ITI, Mallette has successfully completed the migration and consolidation of its IT infrastructure on new equipment to take advantage of hybrid cloud and virtualization technologies.
Mallette is one of the top 10 chartered professional accounting firms in Canada. Operating without a head office, its activities are distributed through regional and provincial joint work committees that depend on information technology to ensure remote collaboration.
However, in four of its data centres, the aging infrastructure was negatively impacting employees’ ability to work efficiently. The Mallette IT team decided to consolidate and migrate this infrastructure into a new data centre and onto new equipment to capitalize on the benefits afforded by the cloud.
Mallette set a target for completing its resource and data migration within three to four months. But the project was too big for the small in-house IT team to handle on its own.
Challenges like this are faced by many organizations. It’s normal for companies to want to continue to grow and deliver projects, products and services. But aging infrastructure, the consolidation of multiple environments, labour shortages, and difficulties recruiting specialists all too often result in IT teams being overworked.
Mallette turned to ITI, their technology consulting service provider, to address the shortage of resources, but even more importantly to benefit from their specialized expertise and extensive experience. ITI has high-level certifications from industry leaders for both physical data centres and cloud infrastructure, making it a partner of choice for a successful migration.
Working in collaboration with Mallette’s in-house IT team, ITI carried out a comprehensive analysis of the company’s needs, building on the fact that user tools were almost entirely based on application virtualization, and accelerating the deployment already underway for some cloud applications.
“The recent changes in our infrastructure have left us in a strong position for dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.”
Mallette is well established in Quebec, with over 1,000 employees in 30 offices specializing in various areas of expertise, including certification, taxation, advisory services, actuarial services, and bankruptcy trustee and management services.
As part of a Parlons TI event hosted by ITI, Planète Techno columnist Pascal Forget interviews Martin Harvey, IT Director at Mallette, and Sébastien Sollazzo, Senior Director, Technological Expertise Development at ITI.
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