Our large insurance client, as part of an acquisition, rapidly needed to integrate their IT systems. Because the acquisition was subject to strict regulations, failure to meet timescales would result in financial penalties.
With lead times of over 6 months on new products, there was a risk of significant impact to their business. Our client faced a major challenge to integrate the new business and provide complete services to their customers.
Our client shared with Cistor both the financial impact of this and the potential negative customer experiences that such a significant delay to their project would invoke.
Our long-standing authorised partnership with Cisco allowed us to have a responsive approach to the IT market that supported our client’s customer-centric principles. With Cistor’s experience of circular supply chains and visibility, we quickly secured the switches and modules our client needed.
By working with a combination of new and Cisco Refresh, certified remanufactured equipment, we ensured a timeframe that would deliver a seamless integration on time for our client.
Our experience in supporting customers with vendor certified remanufactured equipment, and points of engagement with multiple distribution channels, enables us to source in-demand hardware where other suppliers can’t. We’re a business that builds long term relationships with clients, who trust us to solve their biggest IT challenges.
Our global insurance client benefited from the cost-effective, rapid remanufactured IT solutions from Cisco Refresh, delivered by Cistor. Our solutions prevented an unacceptable 12-month wait that would have breached deadline, and instead met the acquisition timeline with confidence.
By choosing Cistor’s circular supply chain model, they avoided financial sanction and sustained their reputation for innovative digital transformation, while championing sustainable IT.
Ongoing router shortages were preventing our leading ISP client from delivering their managed services solutions. Because they rely on a consistent supply of multiple standard sized routers to provide uninterrupted networking to their SME customers, long lead times meant disruption to existing services and setbacks on new business.
Our client had a shortfall of 200 routers and faced a prolonged fulfilment date for new product supply. Delaying installs would have a negative impact on their customers and come at a significant cost to the company. As a customer-centric organisation that intuitively related to our client’s concerns over speed and efficiency, we were able to leverage our circular supply chain solutions to find a resolution.
Our client, a top tier ranked law firm, depends on enterprise grade hardware to keep its data secure and provide efficient communications with its customers. The firm wanted to run a standard upgrade on one of its data centres.
Cistor partnered with the client to develop a solution that was financially beneficial and environmentally sustainable. Through discussions and lab testing with the customer, we agreed the solution could be best provided by using Cisco Refresh, certified remanufactured products to avoid the risk of deploying non-OEM equipment.
Cistor’s broad range of visibility, both into leading vendors and global distributors, led us to surpass projected lead times and source the right equipment for our ISP partner, right away.
To skip the queue and provide an outstanding result, we secured a combination of new and certified remanufactured products and had them shipped to our client within a week of the call.
Through their partnership with Cistor, our client delivered on commitments to their customers, whereas the projected 7 month wait for new equipment would have caused major disruption. Our expertise in circular supply chains meant we could source and supply the required IT in days.
By deploying both new and authorised remanufactured technology, the ISP continued to provide seamless installs, on time and under budget. The transformative impact on their supply chain has now inspired our client to leverage a blended remanufactured and new approach to all their managed services – an approach that is also better for their sustainable IT objectives.
Daiwa were facing increased support costs and a range of technical challenges across their core network. This was a multi-site infrastructure built around the Cisco 6500 platform, and as the platform they depended upon reached End of Sale the infrastructure became fully redundant.
The solution needed was clearly a single platform working across all sites in a manner which would streamline policy and simplify the support needed.
In addition to being streamlined and seamless the platform had to provide a complete technical solution, including complex capabilities like Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), which would enable them to extend their layer 2 capabilities between data centres.
We worked in close partnership with the team at Daiwa in order to transform and transition their existing environment with scope for potential future growth built into the solution at a fundamental level.
The answer was a nexus 7000 solution with an end-to-end professional services wrap which met all of the client demands and was delivered within the budget.
The main data center site migrated successfully from the redundant Cisco 6500 platform to the Nexus 7000 platform. This shift was seamless and enabled improved planning, streamlining of policy, and 10G upgrades across multiple sites. This put in place the conditions for ease of scalability across the client’s networks of remote sites.
Our experience, access to supply chains and relationship with a vendor like Cisco enabled us to deliver an effective migration on time and on budget.
Having a stable network is an essential building block to providing the core infrastructure for the bank’s trading activities. Any disruption or downtime has a very real impact on the business, so changes to the environment are not undertaken lightly. Cistor helped with not one, but two significant changes. The first being the replacement of core switch infrastructure to the latest generation of Cisco hardware, and the second being an upgrade across multiple sites to increase bandwidth.
Both of these projects were meticulously planned and executed without incident, and as the head of Infrastructure I couldn’t have wished for a better outcome