Logicalis provides HP and Cisco portfolio products and services
for both IT and engineering for DIRECTV. Logicalis also integrates
complementary products and services from their partners such as
VMware, Symantec, Red Hat and Cisco.
“My name is Chris Beaudin. I work in the DIRECTV IT business
office. DIRECTV is a video and entertainment company and we have 19
million customers in the United States, another 10 million in Latin
America. We are the biggest video provider in the world. We have
over 20,000 employees and it’s our job to make sure that each and
every one of them has the technology to do what he needs to provide
our customers with the excellent service that they demand.”
“DIRECTV started in 1994 and when we did, we started working
with AVNET and Logicalis on Day One. They helped us to produce our
first data center and since that time, we have worked on three
massive data center migrations, we’ve opened up six call centers
across the United States, they’ve helped us to design and deploy
all the equipment on all of our floors, and it’s critical that we
meet our time schedules, and we have yet to miss a date.”
The partnership between DIRECTV, Logicalis, and HP
“The partnership among HP, DIRECTV, and Logicalis is succinct
and works very well for us. Logicalis helps us navigate the
different department units within HP, whether it be the server
area, and within the server area, there are four or five distinct
units that don’t always work well together because that’s not the
way they’re designed. Logicalis helps us do what we need to do to
make it run efficiently and fluid.
Logicalis is our “extended family”
“Another wonderful quality about Logicalis and how we work
together is their ability to build for us on the turn of a dime.
They know what we need because they know our environment. They are
our extended family. So when we need something, they get working
right away, [and] they will build it. Something arrives on the dock
at one of our data centers, we open it up, and it’s ready to
use.”
“There’s not a week of configuration and asset tagging, things
lost, it’s all done. These are wonderful programs that we can only
get through Logicalis. It’s been a great partnership that can only
be built on the spirit of trust.”