About the Company
Galaxy Office Automation Pvt Ltd Drives
Performance and Efficiency with EBS Volumes for EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering India Pvt Ltd
- Client: EXFO, a leading provider of test, monitoring, and analytics solutions for global communications service providers
- Industry: Telecommunications
The Challenge
EXFO’s rapidly growing business and data-intensive workloads demanded high-performance storage solutions. Their existing traditional storage infrastructure was struggling to keep up, leading to performance bottlenecks and operational inefficiencies.
The Solution
Galaxy Office Automation Pvt Ltd, recommended and implemented Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes as EXFO’s primary storage solution.
How Galaxy Successfully Solved the Company’s Challenges
- Galaxy Team conducted a thorough assessment of EXFO’s IT environment, storage requirements, and performance needs.
- Based on the findings, Galaxy Team proposed a migration plan to move EXFO’s critical data and applications to EBS volumes, optimized for their specific workload demands.
- Galaxy Team experienced engineers seamlessly migrated EXFO’s data to EBS, minimizing downtime and disruption to their operations.
- Enhanced Performance: EBS volumes delivered significant performance improvements, reducing application response times by up to 50%. EXFO’s engineers and data analysts experienced faster data access and retrieval, boosting their productivity.
- Increased Scalability and Flexibility: EBS volumes easily scaled to accommodate EXFO’s growing data volume, eliminating the need for frequent hardware upgrades. With EBS, EXFO could provision new storage on-demand, providing agility and flexibility to adapt to changing business needs.
- Improved Cost Efficiency: EBS pay-per-use model eliminated upfront capital expenditures and ongoing maintenance costs associated with traditional storage solutions. EXFO only paid for the storage they used, leading to significant cost savings.
- Enhanced Data Availability and Reliability: EBS volumes offer high availability and redundancy features, ensuring EXFO’s critical data is always accessible and protected against hardware failures.
- Simplified Management: EBS simplifies storage management with an intuitive web interface. EXFO’s IT team gained centralized control over storage provisioning, monitoring, and scaling, reducing administrative overhead.
Benefits
- High IOPS and throughput: EBS volumes come in various types, each offering different IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) and throughput levels. You can choose the type that best suits your application’s performance needs, ensuring consistent and fast data access. For instance, Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes deliver ultra-low latency for mission-critical applications, while General Purpose SSD volumes offer a balance of performance and cost for everyday workloads.
- Elastic scalability: EBS volumes can be easily scaled up or down in size on the fly, without downtime or data loss. This allows you to adapt your storage capacity to your evolving needs, eliminating the need for over-provisioning and associated costs.
Overall, EBS volumes offer a compelling solution for primary storage, providing a combination of high performance, scalability, reliability, cost-effectiveness, security, and flexibility. Whether you’re running mission-critical applications or everyday workloads, EBS can help you optimize your storage infrastructure and achieve your business objectives.
This case study showcases how Galaxy Office Automation Pvt Ltd, as a trusted AWS partner, helped EXFO unlock the potential of EBS volumes to optimize their storage infrastructure and achieve significant performance, scalability, and cost benefits. EBS proved to be a perfect fit for EXFO’s demanding workloads, paving the way for their continued success in the telecommunications industry.
“Galaxy Office Automation’s expertise in AWS and their efficient migration process made our transition to EBS volumes seamless and painless. EBS has transformed our storage infrastructure, providing us with the performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency we need to support our continued growth”
IT Manager
EXFO India Pvt Ltd