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Abba Technologies Simplifies Management and Modernizes Backup and Disaster Recovery with HPE SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Abba Technologies was operating its IT environment on a complex system that included 9 ESXi hosts, fiber channel switches, two enterprise class storage arrays, several different backup solutions, and 7.5TB of off-site deduplication backup. This created a complex management environment for Abba Technologies and its customers. The company's five-year-old legacy infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life utility and a hardware refresh was needed. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update its existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow the company to avoid a complete renovation, or make the switch to a new technology that could address its goals of updating old equipment and simplifying the IT infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	Abba Technologies is an IT company that had been operating its IT environment on a complex system that included 9 ESXi hosts, fiber channel switches, two enterprise class storage arrays, several different backup solutions, and 7.5TB of off-site deduplication backup. This created a complex management environment not only for Abba Technologies, but also its customers. The company's five-year-old legacy infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life utility and a hardware refresh was needed. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update its existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow the company to avoid a complete renovation, or make the switch to a new technology that could address its goals of updating old equipment and simplifying the IT infrastructure. Read More
Solution	Abba Technologies implemented three HPE SimpliVity nodes - two in the primary data center for production, managed services and backup purposes, and one offsite used for replication and disaster recovery (DR). Not only did this simplify management complexity, but also increased capacity, optimized performance and significantly reduced backup times. Installed on a Tuesday, the solutions were and up and running with all production functionality by the Friday. The HPE SimpliVity disaster recovery capabilities improved the efficiency of RPOs and RTOs— with replication, restore and backup now taking minutes compared to days. The HPE SimpliVity solution eliminated the need for multiple appliances for management, storage and backup. Replacing the old, taskladen, inefficient environment with an easy to use, single interface saved the team valuable time, and enabled them to concentrate on other areas. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Abba Technologies was operating its IT environment on a complex system that included 9 ESXi hosts, fiber channel switches, two enterprise class storage arrays, several different backup solutions, and 7.5TB of off-site deduplication backup. This created a complex management environment for Abba Technologies and its customers. The company's five-year-old legacy infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life utility and a hardware refresh was needed. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update its existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow the company to avoid a complete renovation, or make the switch to a new technology that could address its goals of updating old equipment and simplifying the IT infrastructure.

About Customer

Abba Technologies is an IT company that had been operating its IT environment on a complex system that included 9 ESXi hosts, fiber channel switches, two enterprise class storage arrays, several different backup solutions, and 7.5TB of off-site deduplication backup. This created a complex management environment not only for Abba Technologies, but also its customers. The company's five-year-old legacy infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life utility and a hardware refresh was needed. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update its existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow the company to avoid a complete renovation, or make the switch to a new technology that could address its goals of updating old equipment and simplifying the IT infrastructure.

Solution

Abba Technologies implemented three HPE SimpliVity nodes - two in the primary data center for production, managed services and backup purposes, and one offsite used for replication and disaster recovery (DR). Not only did this simplify management complexity, but also increased capacity, optimized performance and significantly reduced backup times. Installed on a Tuesday, the solutions were and up and running with all production functionality by the Friday. The HPE SimpliVity disaster recovery capabilities improved the efficiency of RPOs and RTOs— with replication, restore and backup now taking minutes compared to days. The HPE SimpliVity solution eliminated the need for multiple appliances for management, storage and backup. Replacing the old, taskladen, inefficient environment with an easy to use, single interface saved the team valuable time, and enabled them to concentrate on other areas.

Impact #1	Simplified management complexity
Impact #2	Increased capacity
Impact #3	Optimized performance

Impact #1

Simplified management complexity

Impact #2

Increased capacity

Impact #3

Optimized performance

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

Benefit #1

47:1 increase in data efficiencies

Benefit #2

50% increase in performance

Benefit #3

151TB capacity savings

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Abba Technologies Simplifies Management and Modernizes Backup and Disaster Recovery with HPE SimpliVity

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