Saatchi Gallery
- This leading London art gallery asked us to optimise the performance of their inter-site connectivity
- visit The Saatchi Gallery website
The Saatchi Gallery had two sites in central London, data sharing between the two sites was business critical and the existing VPN solution was proving to be ineffective.
Octavia carried out a survey of the infrastructure and operational requirements of both sites and the following were identified as the causes of the poor performance:
- The existing File Server and Domain Controller based at the Head office was of insufficient specification to provide effective service for the whole network.
- The single Domain Controller and File Server model meant the VPN connection was relied upon for all system and data access from both sites and this had proved to be insufficient.
The single server model was replaced with servers at both offices, this enabled the site-to-site VPN to be utilised more efficiently with data synchronised between the servers and accessed locally by the respective client PC's.
Data storage was split to reflect the requirements of each office, but the backup to tape operation is carried out centrally at the head office, thereby minimising the administrative workload. Windows Distributed File System (DFS) and SQL Server Replication were the underpinning technologies used to implement this architecture.
The original server was replaced with a higher specification server, however, costs were reduced by re-using the older server at the Gallery site.
In addition Octavia installed and configured a secure wireless network at the Head Office location to enable expansion of the network without incurring expensive cabling issues and minimise the structural impact on the listed building.
Octavia now support and maintain all of the Saatchi Gallery's IT systems via Flexisupport
