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Abba Technologies Chooses SimpliVity’s OmniCube

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Abba Technologies, an IT services and solutions provider based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was facing several challenges with their legacy infrastructure. The company was dealing with long backup times, multiple complex management consoles, and their infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life. The company was running Exchange, SQL, and other customer-specific applications which were becoming increasingly difficult and slow due to their outdated infrastructure. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update their existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow them to avoid a complete renovation of their IT environment, or switch to a new technology that could address their goals of updating old equipment and simplifying their IT infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	Abba Technologies is an IT services and solutions provider based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company was founded in 1993 and has since partnered with customers in the government and private sector to implement fully integrated, complete, and reliable IT solutions that follow industry best practices. In 2013, Abba became a MSP Top 500 company, positioning themselves with the nation’s best Managed Service Providers. Abba strives after performance, efficiency, and the ability to provide their customers with those same benefits. However, their legacy infrastructure was suffering from long backup times, multiple, complex management consoles, and was nearing their end-of-life. Read More
Solution	Abba Technologies decided to implement SimpliVity’s OmniCube after witnessing its simplified management, speedy backup, and the potential opened up by OmniCube’s DR capabilities. The company implemented three OmniCube CN-3000 systems—two in their primary data center for production, managed services, and backup purposes, and one offsite used for replication and DR. The OmniCubes were installed on Tuesday and up and running with all production functionality by Friday; all previous methods for backup were eliminated. OmniCube’s Disaster Recovery capabilities combined with the ability to provide global unified management not only improved the efficiency of RPOs and RTOs—with replication, restore, and backup now taking minutes compared to days—but the remote replication capabilities and WAN optimization meant that Abba could now offer DR-as-a- Service to their customers at a midmarket price. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Abba Technologies, an IT services and solutions provider based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was facing several challenges with their legacy infrastructure. The company was dealing with long backup times, multiple complex management consoles, and their infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life. The company was running Exchange, SQL, and other customer-specific applications which were becoming increasingly difficult and slow due to their outdated infrastructure. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update their existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow them to avoid a complete renovation of their IT environment, or switch to a new technology that could address their goals of updating old equipment and simplifying their IT infrastructure.

About Customer

Abba Technologies is an IT services and solutions provider based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company was founded in 1993 and has since partnered with customers in the government and private sector to implement fully integrated, complete, and reliable IT solutions that follow industry best practices. In 2013, Abba became a MSP Top 500 company, positioning themselves with the nation’s best Managed Service Providers. Abba strives after performance, efficiency, and the ability to provide their customers with those same benefits. However, their legacy infrastructure was suffering from long backup times, multiple, complex management consoles, and was nearing their end-of-life.

Solution

Abba Technologies decided to implement SimpliVity’s OmniCube after witnessing its simplified management, speedy backup, and the potential opened up by OmniCube’s DR capabilities. The company implemented three OmniCube CN-3000 systems—two in their primary data center for production, managed services, and backup purposes, and one offsite used for replication and DR. The OmniCubes were installed on Tuesday and up and running with all production functionality by Friday; all previous methods for backup were eliminated. OmniCube’s Disaster Recovery capabilities combined with the ability to provide global unified management not only improved the efficiency of RPOs and RTOs—with replication, restore, and backup now taking minutes compared to days—but the remote replication capabilities and WAN optimization meant that Abba could now offer DR-as-a- Service to their customers at a midmarket price.

Impact #1	After virtualizing on OmniCube, Abba reduced clutter and required rack space in their IT environment from 2.5 racks down to 8U with three OmniCubes and two vCenter servers.
Impact #2	Having previously been bogged down with numerous appliances for management, storage, and backups—creating an inefficient, task-laden environment—SimpliVity’s hyperconverged offering gave the team a chance to breathe, with all tasks now managed through a single vCenter interface.
Impact #3	Abba also benefited from OmniCube’s data efficiency capabilities that greatly reduced the time necessary for cloning, replication, and backups.

Impact #1

After virtualizing on OmniCube, Abba reduced clutter and required rack space in their IT environment from 2.5 racks down to 8U with three OmniCubes and two vCenter servers.

Impact #2

Having previously been bogged down with numerous appliances for management, storage, and backups—creating an inefficient, task-laden environment—SimpliVity’s hyperconverged offering gave the team a chance to breathe, with all tasks now managed through a single vCenter interface.

Impact #3

Abba also benefited from OmniCube’s data efficiency capabilities that greatly reduced the time necessary for cloning, replication, and backups.

Benefit #1	47:1 data efficiencies
Benefit #2	50% performance increase
Benefit #3	151TB capacity savings

Benefit #1

47:1 data efficiencies

Benefit #2

50% performance increase

Benefit #3

151TB capacity savings

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Abba Technologies Chooses SimpliVity’s OmniCube

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