Customer
Murphy Geospatial
Overview
Transformed their fragmented storage environment into a fully managed, cloud-based global file system, eliminating capacity constraints while delivering multi-petabyte scalability, enhanced security compliance, and seamless enterprise-wide collaboration.
Services provided
Cyber Security
Murphy Geospatial
Murphy Geospatial provides surveying, monitoring and geospatial consultancy services to infrastructure and construction sectors. Murphy supports clients from local Irish projects to major international infrastructure and development programmes.
Results overview
50% Cost Reduction
Achieved over three years compared to alternative enterprise storage solutions
Multi-Petabyte Scalability
Future-proofed infrastructure capable of handling 500TB+ annual data growth
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
Highest Microsoft Secure Score with ISO 27001 and CIS benchmark validation
Challenge
Murphy Geospatial operates with 300+ engineers across five countries, generating extremely large geospatial data sets up to 1.2TB per day, from construction sites, field teams, offices and remote workers.
As the business scaled, its storage and collaboration infrastructure began to break down.
Key challenges included:
Constantly running out of physical storage
Standard file servers, site-to-site VPNs and client VPNs pushed beyond their limits
SAN storage, backup and disaster recovery systems becoming prohibitively expensive
File size and type limitations ruling out OneDrive, SharePoint and Azure Files
Need to scale beyond a petabyte within three years
ISO 27001:2013 and CIS benchmarking compliance requirements
Urgent implementation required due to exhausted physical storage capacity
Storage constraints were directly impacting growth and limiting the company’s ability to take on larger contracts.
Solution
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform deployed and fully managed by Savenet
Savenet designed and implemented a cloud-synchronised global file system combining:
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform deployed in Microsoft Azure
Wasabi Cloud Storage for scalable, cost-effective cloud storage
Seven CTERA virtual cloud caching gateway appliances (16TB–128TB) across key offices
CTERA Edge Filers for office-level intelligent caching
CTERA Agents deployed to all 300+ engineers’ laptops
Key Solution Features
Over 300TB of data migrated into the CTERA global file system
Intelligent local caching, only active data stored locally, inactive data stubbed
Seamless access to full dataset from any office or laptop
Snapshot backups every 5 minutes
Built to ISO 27001 and CIS benchmarking standards
FIPS 140-2 certified encryption
Data compression and deduplication reducing storage footprint by up to 50%
Fully managed service delivered by Savenet
The solution eliminated storage bottlenecks while enabling secure, real-time collaboration across multiple countries.
Results
The impact was immediate and transformational:
Storage pressure and constraints completely removed within 8 weeks
50% cost savings over three years compared to competitors
Achieved Microsoft’s highest available Secure Score
ISO 27001:2013 and CIS benchmark compliance fully audited and board-approved
Multi-petabyte scalability to support accelerated growth
Enabled Murphy Geospatial to confidently take on a new contract generating an additional 100TB of data
What would previously have required board-level risk escalation became a non-issue due to the scalability of the new platform.
“Within 8 weeks, the bulk of the project was delivered and our storage pressures and constraints had disappeared. We have recently won a large contract with a large global online retail company that will generate an additional 100TB of data above our normal annual data growth of 300 TB this year. Being faced with the prospect of having to deal with a half a petabyte of data growth in one year would have been a major issue that would have gone to board level, but now we don’t give it a second thought as the CTERA solution that Savenet have designed has multipetabyte capacity.”
Kieron Goucher, IT Manager
“Within 8 weeks, the bulk of the project was delivered and our storage pressures and constraints had disappeared. We have recently won a large contract with a large global online retail company that will generate an additional 100TB of data above our normal annual data growth of 300 TB this year. Being faced with the prospect of having to deal with a half a petabyte of data growth in one year would have been a major issue that would have gone to board level, but now we don’t give it a second thought as the CTERA solution that Savenet have designed has multipetabyte capacity.”
Kieron Goucher, IT Manager
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