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With the country’s economy taking off, Morocco’s tax agency found its traditional storage architecture was a gateway to nowhere
Morocco is Africa’s fifth-largest economy, with GDP projected to exceed US $152 billion when final numbers are tallied for 2024. The General Directorate of Taxation (DGI), part of the Ministry of Finance, is the government body responsible for collecting tax revenue to support Morocco’s rapid growth. All transactions pass through its integrated tax infrastructure platform, making data storage critical to its operations.
With GDP on an upward trajectory, the Directorate found itself with an increased workload. And with legacy storage systems starting to show their age, staff saw clearly that a new storage solution was needed fast.
With all-flash solutions becoming more widespread, Directorate staff also knew that traditional storage gateway architecture had become a performance bottleneck, complicating network operations and maintenance. It was for that reason that many organizations had already turned to All-Flash Array storage infrastructure, which exclusively uses flash memory Solid-State Drives to deliver superior speeds and performance for mission-critical workloads.
But for the DGI, migrating from legacy storage looked to be a challenge. To keep up with data growth, it wanted an all-flash solution that could deliver at least 350,000 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS). At the same time, new storage would have to be virtualized and compatible with legacy appliances. Finally, the new storage also needed to be scalable, to eventually form an active-active Three Data Center (3DC) configuration to guarantee reliability.
DGI representatives first met Huawei in 2019 and quickly grasped the scope of its capabilities. Huawei, they saw, was not just a Communication Technology (CT) vendor, but an established Information Technology (IT) provider as well. With the DGI's legacy network structure including both main and Disaster Recovery (DR) sites, Huawei OceanStor Dorado 6000 was soon selected for the former. It had 36 slots available in the enclosure and 250 TiB capacity, representing a big improvement over existing capacity, while reserving additional capacity for future growth. (A Tebibyte is a unit of digital information storage, often used to quantify storage capacity.)
Online migration processed smoothly with OceanStor Dorado 6000, which now hosts core services on the DGI's integrated tax infrastructure platform. With better performance, a smoother workflow has also been rolled out for collecting public revenue information and analyzing public spending.
Faster transactions allow the DGI to better monitor the implementation of tax policies, allowing it to more precisely define, refine, and develop financial plans for the future, all in support of national growth.
