Standardizing disparate enterprise-data infrastructures and enhancing reliability and resilience requires rapid digital transformation before challenges out-scale inorganic growth.

Some time ago, a UK-based software provider supporting thousands of customers globally in sectors including healthcare and government, was facing challenges from its rapid growth fueled by acquisitions.

These problems had made it difficult to standardize operations and meet customer expectations for service reliability and data security, especially in health and social care sectors where some applications support critical hospital system records and operating room scheduling.

On 5 Nov, 2025 The Access Group (Access) was announced to have undergone a significant digital transformation to manage infrastructure complexity and scale. This transformation has unified diverse systems acquired through rapid growth and streamline compliance across multiple jurisdictions, while improving performance and uptime for mission-critical applications. For the firm’s global storage infrastructure, the digital transformation now:

  • centralizes data visibility and control to manage over 30,000 virtual machines and 100,000 databases globally, enabling unified management of data assets across the enterprise
  • enhances virtualization capabilities for workload flexibility and seamless operations at scale
  • ensures high availability and stability to minimize downtime for critical healthcare systems
  • prepares infrastructure for future AI deployments by centralizing storage and enabling policy-driven data orchestration across clouds

Note: Other aspects of Access’ broader digital transformation — including application integration and compliance standardization — were driven by internal teams and various partners.

Access’ Regional Technology Director, Rolf Krolke, noted the transformation has given teams the peace of mind that they have a solid data platform to run on, and is allowing “engineering teams to shift focus from infrastructure challenges to innovation.”

According to Altay Ayyuce, Area Vice President (Australia & New Zealand), Pure Storage, the technology vendor involved in the enterprise-data storage part of the digitalization exercise: “Faced with rising data volumes and rapidly evolving business demands,” Access was facing “the additional complexity of navigating data sovereignty across multiple geographies,” and their digital transformation has been restoring the firm’s ability to manage data with the control, automation and access needed to thrive in a data-driven world.”