Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Eubelius turns to HPE SimpliVity to scale VMware Horizon VDI deployment

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Eubelius turns to HPE SimpliVity to scale VMware Horizon VDI deployment

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Professional Service
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Eubelius, a law firm based in Belgium, was facing challenges with its outdated IT infrastructure. The firm's legacy infrastructure and storage arrays were running out of capacity, and the organization was also constrained by an antiquated tape-based data protection solution. Data backup and recovery procedures were inefficient, consuming a lot of storage capacity and taking hours to complete. The firm was in the process of implementing a VMware Horizon VDI initiative and needed to refresh its aging IT infrastructure as part of this initiative. Read More
About Customer	Eubelius is a prominent independent law firm based in Belgium, with offices in Brussels, Kortrijk, and Antwerp. The firm was dealing with a capacity-constrained legacy IT implementation and was in the process of implementing a VMware Horizon VDI initiative. The firm's IT manager, Steven Bauwelinckx, was seeking to refresh the firm's aging IT infrastructure as part of this initiative. The firm needed a solution that was easy to deploy and administer, offered built-in data protection features, and provided rapid VM cloning and recovery capabilities. Read More
Solution	After a detailed product demonstration, Eubelius chose the HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution for its next-generation IT environment. The HPE SimpliVity solution provides a highly scalable foundation for the firm’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) implementation, and ensures high performance and availability for the organization’s core business applications and IT services. The firm installed a four-node HPE SimpliVity configuration in its primary data center and another node in a secondary location for disaster recovery. The solution replaced two full equipment racks of legacy equipment with four 2U HPE SimpliVity nodes that offer far greater capacity. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Professional Service

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Eubelius, a law firm based in Belgium, was facing challenges with its outdated IT infrastructure. The firm's legacy infrastructure and storage arrays were running out of capacity, and the organization was also constrained by an antiquated tape-based data protection solution. Data backup and recovery procedures were inefficient, consuming a lot of storage capacity and taking hours to complete. The firm was in the process of implementing a VMware Horizon VDI initiative and needed to refresh its aging IT infrastructure as part of this initiative.

About Customer

Eubelius is a prominent independent law firm based in Belgium, with offices in Brussels, Kortrijk, and Antwerp. The firm was dealing with a capacity-constrained legacy IT implementation and was in the process of implementing a VMware Horizon VDI initiative. The firm's IT manager, Steven Bauwelinckx, was seeking to refresh the firm's aging IT infrastructure as part of this initiative. The firm needed a solution that was easy to deploy and administer, offered built-in data protection features, and provided rapid VM cloning and recovery capabilities.

Solution

After a detailed product demonstration, Eubelius chose the HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solution for its next-generation IT environment. The HPE SimpliVity solution provides a highly scalable foundation for the firm’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) implementation, and ensures high performance and availability for the organization’s core business applications and IT services. The firm installed a four-node HPE SimpliVity configuration in its primary data center and another node in a secondary location for disaster recovery. The solution replaced two full equipment racks of legacy equipment with four 2U HPE SimpliVity nodes that offer far greater capacity.

Impact #1	HPE SimpliVity’s built-in data protection capabilities help Eubelius safeguard critical data and avoid application downtime.
Impact #2	The firm has slashed backup and recovery times from hours to just seconds.
Impact #3	HPE SimpliVity’s real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency.

Impact #1

HPE SimpliVity’s built-in data protection capabilities help Eubelius safeguard critical data and avoid application downtime.

Impact #2

The firm has slashed backup and recovery times from hours to just seconds.

Impact #3

HPE SimpliVity’s real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency.

Benefit #1	Low storage costs; 14:1 data efficiency
Benefit #2	Backup and recovery times reduced from hours to seconds

Benefit #1

Low storage costs; 14:1 data efficiency

Benefit #2

Backup and recovery times reduced from hours to seconds

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Eubelius turns to HPE SimpliVity to scale VMware Horizon VDI deployment

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