Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Altrecht slashes TCO with HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution

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Altrecht slashes TCO with HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Altrecht, a leading Dutch mental healthcare provider, was facing challenges with its legacy IT environment—a mix of Dell servers and EMC Clariion storage systems—which was running out of capacity and approaching end-of-life. The provider was seeking innovative ways to reduce IT expenses in light of shrinking budgets and growing government regulations. They needed a solution that would ensure high performance and resiliency for their critical applications, while significantly reducing equipment and operations expenses. Read More
About Customer	Altrecht is a leading Dutch mental healthcare provider. Like many healthcare providers in the Netherlands and around the world, Altrecht is continuously seeking innovative ways to reduce IT expenses in light of shrinking budgets and growing government regulations. The provider’s legacy IT environment—a mix of Dell servers and EMC Clariion storage systems—was running out of capacity and approaching end-of-life. The provider needed a solution that would ensure high performance and resiliency for their critical applications, while significantly reducing equipment and operations expenses. Read More
Solution	Altrecht replaced its disjointed multivendor IT implementation with a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The HPE SimpliVity solution ensures high performance and resiliency for the healthcare provider’s critical applications—including a XenApp end-user computing implementation supporting over 1500 concurrent users—while significantly reducing equipment and operations expenses. Altrecht deployed 18 HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged nodes in a new colocation facility, replacing eight racks of legacy systems with just two racks of HPE SimpliVity equipment. The implementation is remotely monitored and supported by Lemontree, Altrecht’s trusted IT advisor and solution provider. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Altrecht, a leading Dutch mental healthcare provider, was facing challenges with its legacy IT environment—a mix of Dell servers and EMC Clariion storage systems—which was running out of capacity and approaching end-of-life. The provider was seeking innovative ways to reduce IT expenses in light of shrinking budgets and growing government regulations. They needed a solution that would ensure high performance and resiliency for their critical applications, while significantly reducing equipment and operations expenses.

About Customer

Altrecht is a leading Dutch mental healthcare provider. Like many healthcare providers in the Netherlands and around the world, Altrecht is continuously seeking innovative ways to reduce IT expenses in light of shrinking budgets and growing government regulations. The provider’s legacy IT environment—a mix of Dell servers and EMC Clariion storage systems—was running out of capacity and approaching end-of-life. The provider needed a solution that would ensure high performance and resiliency for their critical applications, while significantly reducing equipment and operations expenses.

Solution

Altrecht replaced its disjointed multivendor IT implementation with a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The HPE SimpliVity solution ensures high performance and resiliency for the healthcare provider’s critical applications—including a XenApp end-user computing implementation supporting over 1500 concurrent users—while significantly reducing equipment and operations expenses. Altrecht deployed 18 HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged nodes in a new colocation facility, replacing eight racks of legacy systems with just two racks of HPE SimpliVity equipment. The implementation is remotely monitored and supported by Lemontree, Altrecht’s trusted IT advisor and solution provider.

Impact #1	Massive consolidation: Eight racks of legacy equipment replaced by two racks of HPE SimpliVity systems
Impact #2	Simplified operations; IT staff freed up to work on strategic tasks to grow the business
Impact #3	Major storage capacity savings; 641 TB of logical data consumes less than 33 TB of disk space

Impact #1

Massive consolidation: Eight racks of legacy equipment replaced by two racks of HPE SimpliVity systems

Impact #2

Simplified operations; IT staff freed up to work on strategic tasks to grow the business

Impact #3

Major storage capacity savings; 641 TB of logical data consumes less than 33 TB of disk space

Benefit #1	38% five-year TCO savings compared to Microsoft Azure alternative
Benefit #2	69% five-year TCO savings compared to Nutanix alternative

Benefit #1

38% five-year TCO savings compared to Microsoft Azure alternative

Benefit #2

69% five-year TCO savings compared to Nutanix alternative

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Altrecht slashes TCO with HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution

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