Maximising ROI for Arnold Clark

Overview

Arnold Clark, a leading automotive retailer in the UK, delivers exceptional value through both online and in-store used car sales. Their comprehensive service offering includes MOTs, vehicle selling services, and car hire solutions. With a substantial digital presence and multiple revenue streams, maintaining robust IT infrastructure is crucial to their operations.

The Challenge

As cyber threats continued to evolve, Arnold Clark approached FullProxy with a clear objective: maximising ROI for their existing F5 hardware infrastructure. They needed to enhance application availability and redundancy while protecting their critical web services and customer data from escalating cyber threats, particularly ransomware and phishing attempts.

The organisation faced several key challenges:

Ensuring optimal performance of their F5 infrastructure
Protecting sensitive customer data
Maintaining continuous service availability
Defending against sophisticated cyber attacks
Maximising return on their existing F5 investment

“Working with FullProxy has not only helped us create a secure IT infrastructure for our staff but also for our clients, their healthcheck service ensured that we could identify issues quickly and deploy solutions to better protect our data against cyber threats and ensure maximum performance of our applications.”

Head of Digital Services

Arnold Clark

FullProxy's Solution

Our team implemented a comprehensive strategy to maximize Arnold Clark’s ROI through an integrated approach to infrastructure management and security. We established a fault-tolerant F5 environment as the foundation, ensuring continuous service availability and optimal performance. This was reinforced by enhanced security protocols designed to protect against evolving cyber threats while maintaining seamless access for authorized users.

Our proactive maintenance framework combines regular system health monitoring with preventive interventions, allowing us to identify and address potential issues before they impact operations. This is complemented by our comprehensive support services, which span three key areas: real-time fault management for existing systems, strategic consultancy to guide future developments, and end-to-end services for new project design, build, and deployment.

Results and Benefits

The implementation has transformed Arnold Clark’s digital operations, delivering measurable improvements across multiple dimensions. User experience has been significantly enhanced through optimized application performance and consistent system availability. The new fault-tolerant infrastructure has effectively eliminated costly downtime, while strengthened security measures provide robust protection against cyber threats.

Our ongoing maintenance program ensures system health through regular checks and timely updates. This includes proactive software deployments for feature enhancements and rapid implementation of security patches and bug fixes, keeping the infrastructure current and secure. The result is a more resilient, efficient, and future-ready digital environment that supports Arnold Clark’s business objectives.

Why FullProxy?

FullProxy’s expertise in both F5 technologies and security infrastructure made us the ideal partner for this critical security refresh project. Our ability to implement complex solutions while maintaining operational continuity demonstrated our understanding of the unique challenges faced by the retail sector and businesses like Arnold Clark.

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