Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Global Financial Services Firm Saves $100M with HPE SimpliVity

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	Global Financial Services Firm Saves $100M with HPE SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Global Financial Services Firm Saves $100M with HPE SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	The financial services company was dealing with a fractured multivendor IT environment scattered across six, non-optimized data centers due to a series of corporate acquisitions. The disjointed collection of hundreds of independent compute, storage SAN, and data protection platforms was far too costly and complex to maintain and scale. The data centers were located in sites with high energy costs. Expanding capacity meant deploying and configuring separate server and storage platforms—an expensive and drawn-out proposition. Introducing or upgrading applications, configuring backup policies, and troubleshooting and resolving problems was a time consuming, resource-intensive process involving numerous low-level administrative interfaces. The company was unable to meet its Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives with its inefficient legacy data protection solutions. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a multibillion-dollar global financial services company. The company had a fractured multivendor IT environment scattered across six, non-optimized data centers due to a series of corporate acquisitions. The disjointed collection of hundreds of independent compute, storage SAN, and data protection platforms was far too costly and complex to maintain and scale. The data centers were located in sites with high energy costs. The company was unable to meet its Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives with its inefficient legacy data protection solutions. The company initiated a transformation, modernization and consolidation program to radically improve the performance, reliability and economics of its IT infrastructure. Read More
Solution	The company selected HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as its IT infrastructure of choice. The HPE SimpliVity solution improves data center agility and enables dramatic CAPEX and OPEX savings, while markedly improving application performance and availability. The firm expects to save $100M over a five-year period by modernizing and unifying infrastructure, consolidating six global data centers down to three, built from the ground up to simplify operations and optimize power, space and cooling. The HPE SimpliVity solution ensures high performance and availability for the company’s business-critical applications and IT services, while slashing equipment costs and “run” functions, allowing IT staff to focus on “change” functions that support the firm’s business initiatives. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

The financial services company was dealing with a fractured multivendor IT environment scattered across six, non-optimized data centers due to a series of corporate acquisitions. The disjointed collection of hundreds of independent compute, storage SAN, and data protection platforms was far too costly and complex to maintain and scale. The data centers were located in sites with high energy costs. Expanding capacity meant deploying and configuring separate server and storage platforms—an expensive and drawn-out proposition. Introducing or upgrading applications, configuring backup policies, and troubleshooting and resolving problems was a time consuming, resource-intensive process involving numerous low-level administrative interfaces. The company was unable to meet its Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives with its inefficient legacy data protection solutions.

About Customer

The customer is a multibillion-dollar global financial services company. The company had a fractured multivendor IT environment scattered across six, non-optimized data centers due to a series of corporate acquisitions. The disjointed collection of hundreds of independent compute, storage SAN, and data protection platforms was far too costly and complex to maintain and scale. The data centers were located in sites with high energy costs. The company was unable to meet its Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives with its inefficient legacy data protection solutions. The company initiated a transformation, modernization and consolidation program to radically improve the performance, reliability and economics of its IT infrastructure.

Solution

The company selected HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as its IT infrastructure of choice. The HPE SimpliVity solution improves data center agility and enables dramatic CAPEX and OPEX savings, while markedly improving application performance and availability. The firm expects to save $100M over a five-year period by modernizing and unifying infrastructure, consolidating six global data centers down to three, built from the ground up to simplify operations and optimize power, space and cooling. The HPE SimpliVity solution ensures high performance and availability for the company’s business-critical applications and IT services, while slashing equipment costs and “run” functions, allowing IT staff to focus on “change” functions that support the firm’s business initiatives.

Impact #1	Ten-fold consolidation in rack space and simplification; 6 data centers reduced to 3 new data centers
Impact #2	Elimination of dedicated storage platforms and special-purpose WAN optimization appliances
Impact #3	Reliable business continuity and disaster recovery for 4000 VMs across three continents

Impact #1

Ten-fold consolidation in rack space and simplification; 6 data centers reduced to 3 new data centers

Impact #2

Elimination of dedicated storage platforms and special-purpose WAN optimization appliances

Impact #3

Reliable business continuity and disaster recovery for 4000 VMs across three continents

Benefit #1	Projected $100M 5-year cost savings through CAPEX avoidance and OPEX reduction
Benefit #2	Elimination of $530,000 in power costs per year equating to eliminating 150 racks of equipment

Benefit #1

Projected $100M 5-year cost savings through CAPEX avoidance and OPEX reduction

Benefit #2

Elimination of $530,000 in power costs per year equating to eliminating 150 racks of equipment

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Global Financial Services Firm Saves $100M with HPE SimpliVity

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