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	California Real Estate Firm Eliminates IT Cost and Risk with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

California Real Estate Firm Eliminates IT Cost and Risk with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Interland, a California-based real estate development and asset management company, was facing challenges with its aging Dell server and storage systems. The systems were nearing their end-of-life and were running out of capacity. The Dell EqualLogic storage arrays at the Interland facility in Davis, California, and the Jim Joseph Foundation office in San Francisco were nearly out of capacity. Furthermore, the IT team was unable to reliably replicate data across the two sites and had to rely on an inefficient cloud-based data backup service for disaster recovery. This was a risky proposition in an earthquake-prone area like Northern California. When Dell announced plans to discontinue support for the EqualLogic equipment, Blake Soiu, IT Director for Interland, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the reliability, performance, and economics of the company’s IT systems. Read More
About Customer	Interland is a California-based real estate development and asset management company. The company also has a philanthropic arm, the Jim Joseph Foundation. Interland was using aging Dell server and storage systems that were nearing their end-of-life and running out of capacity. The company's IT infrastructure was based in two locations - the Interland facility in Davis, California, and the Jim Joseph Foundation office in San Francisco. The company's IT Director, Blake Soiu, was responsible for managing the company's IT systems and initiated a technology refresh program when Dell announced plans to discontinue support for the EqualLogic equipment that Interland was using. Read More
Solution	Interland selected SimpliVity for its next-generation data center infrastructure after investigating several potential solutions, including Nutanix. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The product performs inline data deduplication, compression, and optimization on all data at inception across all phases of the data lifecycle, enabling dramatic storage capacity savings and efficient data protection even over bandwidth-constrained WAN links. Interland deployed redundant SimpliVity OmniCube configurations in its Davis and San Francisco data centers to ensure continuous availability in the event of hardware failures or application issues. Data is backed up locally and replicated across sites for disaster recovery and business continuity. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Interland, a California-based real estate development and asset management company, was facing challenges with its aging Dell server and storage systems. The systems were nearing their end-of-life and were running out of capacity. The Dell EqualLogic storage arrays at the Interland facility in Davis, California, and the Jim Joseph Foundation office in San Francisco were nearly out of capacity. Furthermore, the IT team was unable to reliably replicate data across the two sites and had to rely on an inefficient cloud-based data backup service for disaster recovery. This was a risky proposition in an earthquake-prone area like Northern California. When Dell announced plans to discontinue support for the EqualLogic equipment, Blake Soiu, IT Director for Interland, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the reliability, performance, and economics of the company’s IT systems.

About Customer

Interland is a California-based real estate development and asset management company. The company also has a philanthropic arm, the Jim Joseph Foundation. Interland was using aging Dell server and storage systems that were nearing their end-of-life and running out of capacity. The company's IT infrastructure was based in two locations - the Interland facility in Davis, California, and the Jim Joseph Foundation office in San Francisco. The company's IT Director, Blake Soiu, was responsible for managing the company's IT systems and initiated a technology refresh program when Dell announced plans to discontinue support for the EqualLogic equipment that Interland was using.

Solution

Interland selected SimpliVity for its next-generation data center infrastructure after investigating several potential solutions, including Nutanix. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The product performs inline data deduplication, compression, and optimization on all data at inception across all phases of the data lifecycle, enabling dramatic storage capacity savings and efficient data protection even over bandwidth-constrained WAN links. Interland deployed redundant SimpliVity OmniCube configurations in its Davis and San Francisco data centers to ensure continuous availability in the event of hardware failures or application issues. Data is backed up locally and replicated across sites for disaster recovery and business continuity.

Impact #1	Efficient and cost-effective data protection; eliminated cloud-based backup service.
Impact #2	Simplified administration; IT staff freed up for innovation.
Impact #3	Rapid IT service agility; spin up VMs in seconds.

Impact #1

Efficient and cost-effective data protection; eliminated cloud-based backup service.

Impact #2

Simplified administration; IT staff freed up for innovation.

Impact #3

Rapid IT service agility; spin up VMs in seconds.

Benefit #1	Eliminated cloud-based storage service, which cost as much as $2,300 a month.
Benefit #2	In the Davis data center 380 TB of logical data consume only 4 TB of physical storage.

Benefit #1

Eliminated cloud-based storage service, which cost as much as $2,300 a month.

Benefit #2

In the Davis data center 380 TB of logical data consume only 4 TB of physical storage.

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California Real Estate Firm Eliminates IT Cost and Risk with SimpliVity

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