The Directorate for Agrarian Payments is responsible for the implementation of Serbia’s agricultural subsidies program. In the past, the Directorate ran its core applications on a traditional three-tier environment, but reliability issues were increasing the risk of operational disruption.
To solve the challenge, the organization engaged technology partner Fractal Dimension to deploy a hyperconverged infrastructure solution from Lenovo and VMware. Based on five Lenovo ThinkAgile VX 5000 Series nodes and powered by VMware vSAN™, the solution doubles application performance, accelerates backups by a factor of seven, and helps to ensure that the IT systems underpinning agricultural subsidies are available 24/7.