Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Canada’s Largest Fitness Club Chain Improves IT Agility and Slashes OPEX with SimpliVity

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	Canada’s Largest Fitness Club Chain Improves IT Agility and Slashes OPEX with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Canada’s Largest Fitness Club Chain Improves IT Agility and Slashes OPEX with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	GoodLife Fitness, the largest health club chain in Canada, was facing challenges with its outsourced IT implementation. The system was costly, inefficient, and lacked agility. The company was heavily dependent on its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and required a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was relocating to a new corporate headquarters, the management decided to bring IT operations in-house to increase agility and reduce operational expenses. Read More
About Customer	GoodLife Fitness is the largest health club chain in Canada. The company was relying on a remotely hosted and managed data center for its IT operations. However, this outsourced IT implementation was proving to be costly and inefficient. The company was at the mercy of its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and imposed a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was planning to relocate to a new corporate headquarters, it decided to bring its IT operations in-house. Read More
Solution	After evaluating several options, including traditional compute and storage solutions from IBM and Dell, GoodLife Fitness chose SimpliVity's OmniStack Integrated Solution with Lenovo System x for its new data center. The SimpliVity solution provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources that delivers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. GoodLife deployed two SimpliVity nodes in its new data center in London, Ontario. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of equipment failures, while an additional SimpliVity node in a remote colocation facility provides offsite disaster recovery. 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 Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

GoodLife Fitness, the largest health club chain in Canada, was facing challenges with its outsourced IT implementation. The system was costly, inefficient, and lacked agility. The company was heavily dependent on its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and required a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was relocating to a new corporate headquarters, the management decided to bring IT operations in-house to increase agility and reduce operational expenses.

About Customer

GoodLife Fitness is the largest health club chain in Canada. The company was relying on a remotely hosted and managed data center for its IT operations. However, this outsourced IT implementation was proving to be costly and inefficient. The company was at the mercy of its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and imposed a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was planning to relocate to a new corporate headquarters, it decided to bring its IT operations in-house.

Solution

After evaluating several options, including traditional compute and storage solutions from IBM and Dell, GoodLife Fitness chose SimpliVity's OmniStack Integrated Solution with Lenovo System x for its new data center. The SimpliVity solution provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources that delivers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. GoodLife deployed two SimpliVity nodes in its new data center in London, Ontario. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of equipment failures, while an additional SimpliVity node in a remote colocation facility provides offsite disaster recovery.

Impact #1	The SimpliVity solution has accelerated business agility and safeguarded the company’s critical applications and core IT services.
Impact #2	The IT team can now implement changes in minutes instead of weeks.
Impact #3	SimpliVity’s inherent data efficiencies and data protection capabilities optimize storage resources and accelerate data backup and recovery functions.

Impact #1

The SimpliVity solution has accelerated business agility and safeguarded the company’s critical applications and core IT services.

Impact #2

The IT team can now implement changes in minutes instead of weeks.

Impact #3

SimpliVity’s inherent data efficiencies and data protection capabilities optimize storage resources and accelerate data backup and recovery functions.

Benefit #1	36.5 TB of logical data consumes only 2 TB of physical storage.
Benefit #2	Significant OPEX savings will lead to rapid investment return.
Benefit #3	100% uptime since deployment.

Benefit #1

36.5 TB of logical data consumes only 2 TB of physical storage.

Benefit #2

Significant OPEX savings will lead to rapid investment return.

Benefit #3

100% uptime since deployment.

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Canada’s Largest Fitness Club Chain Improves IT Agility and Slashes OPEX with SimpliVity

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