As The CSI Companies continued to grow at a fast pace through organic means and through mergers, they began experiencing frequent downtime in the corporate services company, which serves both clients and the consultants it places with firms.

Processing times were getting longer, threatening deadlines, such as bank cutoffs for running payrolls. In addition, on one large placement of 400 consultants, the company’s existing infrastructure which consisted of assorted physical servers and storage area networks (SANs) with spinning discs could not keep pace with the rising workload demands.