Drakes
Drakes Supermarkets is the largest independent grocery retailer in Australia and specialises in supermarket retailing. Operating in over 50 stores across South Australia and Queensland.
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Business Challenges
- Running NetApp ONTAP next generation storage on premise, and wish to leverage the full capability of NetApp for data replication for DR whilst leveraging Cloud Storage.
- Require the ability to self-manage the DR platform.
- Require a full functional and flexible firewall
Results Achieved
- Deployment of the Telstra Cloud IaaS CSX and Cloud Gateway
- Deployment of a self-managed Palo Alto NextGen Firewall for traffic management
- Deployment of the Riverbed (Steelhead and SteelFusion)on CSX.
- Provided business continuity for 50 stores by leveraging the Riverbed appliances, on-premise NetApp storage and Telstra’s NetApp cloud offering (TVS).
"Working with Oreta on migrating from one cloud platform
to another has been an exercise in excellence"
Craig Flanagan, Network Manager, Drakes




