Lorca recognises that if EthosData had kept its legacy infrastructure the business would have “been forced to make significant long-term investments in technology that becomes outdated to increase capacity, deal with unreliable equipment, bear the capital expense of replacing end-of-life servers and have the sheer mental effort involved in managing it all.”
Instead, as he no longer has to worry about day-to-day operations Francisco Lorca has been freed to focus on the company’s international expansion in the USA, Japan, Australia and South America. He reveals, “Whereas before if a client came to us with a request that required us to significantly increase our capacity we would have to spend a lot of time and effort assessing and executing the expansion, which carried many unknowns and significant risks. That is all solved now. We can say ‘Yes’ with confidence, understanding exactly how this will be executed.”
Business benefits
- Extremely resilient, ensuring high availability of data and services
- Highest levels of security and compliance
- Efficient solution that eliminates expensive technology refreshes
- Ability to scale up in line with company growth
- Low risk transition from physical to virtual environment
- Freedom to focus on core business by removing the burden of infrastructure management
With security uppermost in executives’ minds following the high profile hacking attack on Sony, Francisco Lorca believes that “People are going to become much more concerned about where we put our data. When there are no incidents you can keep your data in a shoebox and no one cares – until it disappears. Working with Sungard AS I have peace of mind that the worst can happen and we will feel secure.”
Francisco Lorca has the final word. “In many aspects we do not consider Sungard AS’s solution a ‘cloud solution’ as the majority of people would understand it because of the unrivalled resilience, security and control it offers. It comes from Sungard AS, a respected name that gives bank compliance officers confidence and gets us through the door.”