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	Document Outsourcer Consolidates IT Infrastructure and Improves DR with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Document Outsourcer Consolidates IT Infrastructure and Improves DR 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	Professional Service
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	High Cotton’s disjointed IT environment was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods. Read More
About Customer	High Cotton is a leading document outsourcing company that was relying on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. The company's IT environment was disjointed and was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods. Read More
Solution	High Cotton replaced its outdated multivendor IT environment with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution helps the company simplify operations, reduce TCO, and ensure high performance and availability for its business-critical applications and VMware virtual desktop infrastructure. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is specifically designed to meet the increased performance, scalability and agility demands of today’s data intensive, highly virtualized IT environments. The solution eliminates cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup—onto virtualized, industry-standard x86 hardware, with global unified management. The solution delivers the best of both worlds: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities including data efficiency, performance, data protection and global unified management. 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

Professional Service

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

High Cotton’s disjointed IT environment was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods.

About Customer

High Cotton is a leading document outsourcing company that was relying on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. The company's IT environment was disjointed and was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods.

Solution

High Cotton replaced its outdated multivendor IT environment with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution helps the company simplify operations, reduce TCO, and ensure high performance and availability for its business-critical applications and VMware virtual desktop infrastructure. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is specifically designed to meet the increased performance, scalability and agility demands of today’s data intensive, highly virtualized IT environments. The solution eliminates cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup—onto virtualized, industry-standard x86 hardware, with global unified management. The solution delivers the best of both worlds: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities including data efficiency, performance, data protection and global unified management.

Impact #1	Efficient data protection and disaster recovery for critical applications including VMware View VDI
Impact #2	Rapid data protection; backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days
Impact #3	Lower TCO; Equipment racks consolidated into three 2U units and one 2U unit for DR

Impact #1

Efficient data protection and disaster recovery for critical applications including VMware View VDI

Impact #2

Rapid data protection; backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days

Impact #3

Lower TCO; Equipment racks consolidated into three 2U units and one 2U unit for DR

Benefit #1	Reduced storage costs; 219:1 data efficiency
Benefit #2	Full data protection and DR for 60 VMs including dozens of Task Worker virtual desktops
Benefit #3	Backups and restores in seconds compared to hours or days including 4TB File Server

Benefit #1

Reduced storage costs; 219:1 data efficiency

Benefit #2

Full data protection and DR for 60 VMs including dozens of Task Worker virtual desktops

Benefit #3

Backups and restores in seconds compared to hours or days including 4TB File Server

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Document Outsourcer Consolidates IT Infrastructure and Improves DR with SimpliVity

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