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Neil Medical Group’s multivendor IT environment had reached the end of its useful life. The Group’s legacy infrastructure—a mix of IBM® AIX® servers, Dell™ rack servers and Dell EqualLogic™ storage systems—was performance-constrained and running out of capacity. And the company’s data protection methodologies, which relied heavily on tape backups, did not provide efficient disaster recovery or full business continuity for critical applications. Chad Benfield, Director of IT for Neil Medical Group sought to improve the performance, reliability and economics of the Group’s IT infrastructure.

Neil Medical Group was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. They had to manage multiple solutions and vendors, which was manageable but not ideal. The need for a capacity purchase or upgrade of their existing infrastructure led them to review their overall platform. This led them to consider HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

Omni Partners was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. They found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be a non-issue. However, they were looking for a solution that could help them consolidate their data center and modernize their infrastructure. They were running various types of applications including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and VDI.

Nuh Cement, a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems. The company's IT infrastructure was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and expensive. The siloed IT infrastructure included legacy servers and stand-alone storage systems, all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on a variety of data backup and recovery tools for data protection. Disasters or hardware failures had the potential to disrupt critical IT services and business operations, with restoring applications potentially taking hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with the performance, reliability, and economics of its aging information systems, Nuh’s IT team launched a business transformation program to upgrade the company’s IT infrastructure.

The fourth largest Oil and Gas Company in the world as well as integrated energy company with a presence in 29 countries was faced with a major problem: their legacy infrastructure could no longer service all their mission-critical applications. Applications such as Microsoft SQL server, Remote Desktop servers, applications to monitor buoys and wave patterns, and other third-party applications were not running in an optimized or secure state. For disaster recovery, the company used tape backup which was extremely slow and provided no solution for off-site backups for their ships, 200 miles off-shore. Also the existing infrastructure was taking up too much space in the limited room onboard the ships. This Oil and Gas Company sought a technology refresh and a solution that could deliver best-in-class DR capabilities. The Oil and Gas Company had been using six HP servers, NetApp storage, and VSAT connectivity to host ten VMware VMs. The infrastructure was consuming two full racks on the resource-constrained Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) ship where power, space, and cooling were premiums. This design had been in place for six years. Not only was the rigid, legacy infrastructure inefficient, the architecture also lacked the capabilities and agility needed to support new application requirements their business demanded.

Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC), the largest and most comprehensive federally qualified health center in Maine, was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure. The existing infrastructure, a mix of HP servers and Dell Compellent storage arrays, was running out of capacity and becoming increasingly costly and risky to maintain. Applications and data were only backed up locally, so equipment failures or catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical IT services for an extended period of time. With elements of the data center approaching end-of-life, Jason Lewis, Director of IT Infrastructure and Security for PCHC, decided the time was right for a technology refresh.

Practimed, a Belgian healthcare provider, was facing challenges with its legacy IT environment which was a mix of standalone servers and storage arrays. The existing system had become too costly and risky to maintain and scale. Expanding capacity meant deploying additional servers, storage arrays and SAN switches—an expensive and time-consuming proposition. Moreover, the healthcare provider was unable to meet its RPO/RTO goals using its legacy data protection solution. They had strict legal requirements for securing and archiving patient records, plus they needed to ensure critical data is always available for their medical teams. Therefore, finding a reliable disaster recovery solution had become one of their priorities.

Record Automatische Deuren, a leading manufacturer of automatic door systems, was facing challenges due to a fragmented multivendor IT environment resulting from a corporate acquisition. The combined IT implementation—with multiple vendors, technology platforms and administrative interfaces—was far too complex and costly. In addition, the company’s legacy data protection solutions were inherently inefficient. It took hours to backup or recover critical applications using the Oracle Secure Backup or Symantec Backup Exec solutions, exposing the manufacturer to excessive data loss and prolonged application downtime.

Rhodix IT Services, a small business located in the Netherlands, was facing challenges due to the management of multiple solutions and vendors. This was particularly burdensome during a data center migration or consolidation initiative. The company was in need of a solution that could streamline their IT infrastructure and reduce the complexity of managing multiple vendors.

Romac Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry, was facing challenges with its legacy multivendor IT environment. The existing infrastructure, a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC, had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain and scale. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. Russell Turley, IT Manager for Romac, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the performance and reliability of the company’s IT systems.

Simac, a Belgian IT solutions integrator and services provider, was facing challenges with its legacy data center—a mix of HP servers and NetApp storage systems—which had become too costly and complex to manage and scale. Provisioning customers and troubleshooting problems was a time-consuming, resource-intensive proposition involving many distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. Simac planned to move its IT operations to a colocation facility to support its growing business. Deciding the time was right for a technology refresh, Steven De Prins, Cross Domain Architect for Simac, selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the platform for the company’s next-generation IT architecture.

The Special District Risk Management Authority (SDRMA) was facing a storage capacity issue. They had been using Nutanix technology, but ran out of storage and could only expand by adding new nodes, which was frustrating to the IT team. The storage utilization challenge had stumped SDRMA until they found SimpliVity. After vetting the platform’s disaster recovery, backup, and deduplication features, SDRMA and iFish Group chose SimpliVity’s hyperconvergence solution.

The iFish Group was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. Prior to deploying HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure, they found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be manageable, but not ideal. The company was looking for a solution that could simplify their infrastructure and improve performance.

Somerset College, an educational institution in Australia, was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was manageable, but not ideal. This led to a capacity purchase and upgrade of their existing infrastructure, which in turn led to an overall platform review. The college decided to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to address these challenges.

Southbank International School, an international independent school for 3 to 18 year-olds in the heart of London, was facing challenges with its outdated IT server architecture. The school's aging IT infrastructure was becoming increasingly unreliable, costly, and slow. The school relied on a mix of legacy server and storage systems distributed across three campuses, serving approximately 1000 users. Many of the systems were over ten years old and simply could not meet the performance demands of contemporary applications. Administering the fragmented environment was a resource-intensive, time-consuming undertaking involving several distinct management systems. Deploying new applications—allocating compute and storage resources—took days. Even worse, hardware failures were frequently disrupting core classroom applications. The school relied on manual data backup and recovery processes. It took hours or days to restore services as disks were copied, transported across campus and swapped out.

Surrey Place Centre was facing significant challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The organization was also under a mandate to implement disaster recovery and improve backup/recovery. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was found to be a significant burden, leading to the need for a more streamlined and efficient solution.

Synernet’s legacy IT implementation—a mix of HP servers and capacity-constrained Dell EqualLogic storage arrays—was too costly and complex to maintain and scale. Expanding capacity, introducing new applications or troubleshooting problems was a time consuming, error-prone process involving a number of distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. And to make matters worse the company was unable to achieve its disaster recovery objectives with its unidirectional data replication solution; once services failed over to the DR site, Synernet could not effectively revert back to the primary production site.

Red Bull Racing, a competitive force in Formula One racing, relies heavily on IT for everything from business processes to vehicle design to onsite track support on race days. With proprietary, F1-specific applications generating significant amounts of data, the team needed a solution for its growing storage needs for the virtualized estate. The team's legacy infrastructure was slowing down performance. A mix of traditional virtualized servers plus virtual desktop infrastructure resulted in roughly 500 VMs spread across disparate hardware, creating a disjointed and heterogeneous environment. With 50 TB of data, infrastructure sprawl was becoming a costly liability, and software engineers using virtual desktops were noticing performance lags.

Redpagos, a regional fintech company in Uruguay, was facing growing business requirements that prompted the need for new infrastructure. The company's vision was to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty, and to grow market share by creating compelling new benefits for franchisees. However, the existing infrastructure was not sufficient to support the increasing transaction volumes and protect the company from outages, malware, and natural disasters. The company's IT infrastructure could only accommodate a tenth of its total workforce with virtual desktops, which was not enough capacity to support a work-from-home model. Furthermore, the company's databases house sensitive customer information, and the legacy cloud environment was inadequate due to potential regulatory concerns and customer data privacy concerns.

Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) operates lottery and gaming activities on behalf of several provinces and territories in Canada. The non-profit organization's mission is to deliver increased revenue back to governments, which requires efficient budget planning and insights to understand players and optimize sales. However, WCLC's legacy stack was not ideal for gaming operations. Infrastructure had grown along with business needs through siloed purchases, leading to lifecycle management issues, where parts of the environment were off support or nearly there. To meet growing customer expectations, the organization needed to increase its systems' performance.

The Golden State Warriors were looking to create a next-generation stadium that would deliver unparalleled fan experiences. They wanted to build connectivity and intelligence into the facility, turning data into a business driver. The team had to rethink its approach to technology when they bid farewell to their former home in Oakland after 47 seasons. The pre-existing network at the Oakland Arena was a constant challenge, leading the team to envision their ideal state and what they wanted to provide. The construction of the Chase Center in San Francisco gave the team the opportunity to make their vision a reality and evolve what's possible for an event arena. However, the pandemic put a halt to all activities at the Chase Center, forcing the team to navigate a way forward that may be even better than what they originally imagined.

Oracle Red Bull Racing team is in a constant race against time to develop and optimize their cars for each of the 22 races in the Formula One season. The team has to make thousands of changes to the car's design between races, each of which needs to be simulated, manufactured, and tested. The team also has to work within new Formula One design regulations and established cost caps, making efficiency a top priority. Furthermore, changes in F1 rules limit the number of aerodynamics testing hours each team can run per week, making it crucial to optimize every second and achieve peak application performance.

TSPL, a coal-based thermal power plant located in Banawala village in Mansa district of Punjab, India, was facing issues with its traditional client-server environment. The applications were being served on multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) connections from across thousands of kilometers away at Vedanta's central data center at Jharsuguda, one of the most industrially developed districts in the state of Odisha, India. Due to the remote location and connectivity issues, TSPL users often faced application latency or downtimes resulting in loss of productivity. Occasional maintenance issues of local desktop infrastructure added to the problems. TSPL decided to revamp its IT ecosystem to address the issues of IT availability and manageability.

Maverick Transportation, one of the largest flatbed transportation companies in the U.S., was seeking more efficient ways to distribute current information, reports, and metrics throughout the enterprise. The company faced challenges such as compliance with government regulations, safety concerns, ongoing fleet maintenance requirements, and a notoriously high driver turnover rate. In an industry where margins are slim, the ability to carefully scrutinize all aspects of its business was crucial to Maverick’s success. However, Maverick’s existing reporting tools made it difficult to combine operational and financial data, hindering the company’s ability to closely monitor key activities. The company embarked on an initiative to expand its financial reporting package and evaluated several reporting and business intelligence (BI) vendors.

Life sciences companies must contend with a vast base of information and figure out how to analyze it effectively to manage sales, marketing, and distribution activities. As companies within the pharmaceutical industry seek best-practice tools and techniques in an effort to compete, demand for MiPortal® is growing – in Australia and throughout other parts of the world as well. Mercurial saw the opportunity to bring a unique set of BI capabilities to the pharmaceutical marketplace, and then to expand into other verticals as well.

The Ministry of Public Administration of Mexico (MPA) was facing a challenge of low quality in public works projects related to roads, schools, parks, and other public facilities. The agency identified a need for a more comprehensive way to audit and control public works projects. They decided to create a business intelligence (BI) and data integration environment that could link several public information systems, create a consolidated and trusted source of project information, and present results on demand through interactive reports and dashboards.

Moneris Solutions, a leading credit card technology merchant-processing company in Canada, wanted to provide value-added services to its merchants by allowing them to view their debit, Visa, and MasterCard transaction data online. The company also wanted to empower its employees with self-service access to vital information. The challenge was to use business intelligence (BI) to create a self-service web application so customers can obtain a customized view of card payment activity, and access consolidated statements and reports via the Internet. The company also aimed to deploy self-service applications in various internal departments.

Mount Sinai Medical Center, a 1,200-bed facility on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, needed to devise a metrics-based business that holds physicians accountable for performance and quality. They wanted to restructure the reporting environment to improve the accessibility of critical information. The challenge was to resolve information-management and data-quality issues to enable consistent reporting results. They also needed to identify and share Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) via graphical, self-service reports.

Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC) was facing challenges with its manual B2B processes, particularly in the exchange of common business documents such as purchase orders and parts catalogues. The purchase-order process was governed by an RPG program, which built a flat file and sent it to Caterpillar, one of its leading parts suppliers, via FTP. Caterpillar parsed the file and used e-mail to relay individual orders to its dealerships. Each Caterpillar supplier had to manually rekey the purchase-order information and fulfill the order, and MHC often lost track of the order status details. In other instances, MHC representatives had to phone Caterpillar to request parts from inventory, keeping customers waiting for as long as 20 minutes to determine availability. MHC wanted to use XML and Web technologies to streamline the parts-ordering process by automating the exchange of purchase orders and related business documents.

Neways, a company that designs, manufactures, and sells personal care, household, and nutritional products, faced the challenge of standardizing global reporting systems and processes. The company needed to provide business analysts with a self-service BI environment and deliver critical business information to a large, dispersed network of independent distributors. The structure of the organization created unique challenges for Neways’ IT team. Internally, business analysts needed self-service reports to help monitor finances, anticipate trends, and predict results based on current insight. Externally, Neways’ enormous and globally dispersed user base of independent distributors needed access to real-time production data to support sales efforts and track qualification for monthly bonuses.