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Clinical Services Provider Accelerates Data Protection and DR with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Surrey Place Centre, a specialized clinical services provider for individuals living with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and those with visual impairments, was operating with a fractured IT environment. The combination of HP and Dell servers and Dell storage arrays was costly and complicated to administer and maintain. The organization relied on an outdated tape-based backup solution for offsite disaster recovery. Catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical business applications for days or even weeks while systems were recovered. Read More
About Customer	Surrey Place Centre is a specialized clinical services provider for individuals living with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and those with visual impairments. The organization was operating with a fractured IT environment—a combination of HP and Dell servers and Dell storage arrays— which was costly and complicated to administer and maintain. To make matters worse, the organization relied on an outdated tape-based backup solution for offsite disaster recovery. Catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical business applications for days or even weeks while systems were recovered. Read More
Solution	Surrey Place Centre replaced its siloed multivendor IT implementation with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution accelerates data backup and disaster recovery while eliminating infrastructure cost and complexity. The organization deployed two 2U SimpliVity OmniStack with Cisco UCS nodes in its primary data center, replacing a half rack of legacy equipment. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. A third SimpliVity node in a new remote colocation facility provides swift disaster recovery. 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

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Surrey Place Centre, a specialized clinical services provider for individuals living with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and those with visual impairments, was operating with a fractured IT environment. The combination of HP and Dell servers and Dell storage arrays was costly and complicated to administer and maintain. The organization relied on an outdated tape-based backup solution for offsite disaster recovery. Catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical business applications for days or even weeks while systems were recovered.

About Customer

Surrey Place Centre is a specialized clinical services provider for individuals living with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and those with visual impairments. The organization was operating with a fractured IT environment—a combination of HP and Dell servers and Dell storage arrays— which was costly and complicated to administer and maintain. To make matters worse, the organization relied on an outdated tape-based backup solution for offsite disaster recovery. Catastrophes had the potential to disrupt critical business applications for days or even weeks while systems were recovered.

Solution

Surrey Place Centre replaced its siloed multivendor IT implementation with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution accelerates data backup and disaster recovery while eliminating infrastructure cost and complexity. The organization deployed two 2U SimpliVity OmniStack with Cisco UCS nodes in its primary data center, replacing a half rack of legacy equipment. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. A third SimpliVity node in a new remote colocation facility provides swift disaster recovery.

Impact #1	Fast and efficient data protection; backup and recovery in minutes, compared to hours or days with previous solution
Impact #2	High availability; 100% uptime since inception
Impact #3	Improved application performance; Exchange loads 75% faster

Impact #1

Fast and efficient data protection; backup and recovery in minutes, compared to hours or days with previous solution

Impact #2

High availability; 100% uptime since inception

Impact #3

Improved application performance; Exchange loads 75% faster

Benefit #1	Backup and recovery in minutes, compared to hours or days with previous solution
Benefit #2	100% uptime since inception
Benefit #3	Exchange loads 75% faster

Benefit #1

Backup and recovery in minutes, compared to hours or days with previous solution

Benefit #2

100% uptime since inception

Benefit #3

Exchange loads 75% faster

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Clinical Services Provider Accelerates Data Protection and DR with SimpliVity

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