Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Global Manufacturer Chooses SimpliVity for IT Refresh, App Delivery improvement and Disaster Recovery

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	Global Manufacturer Chooses SimpliVity for IT Refresh, App Delivery improvement and Disaster Recovery Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Global Manufacturer Chooses SimpliVity for IT Refresh, App Delivery improvement and Disaster Recovery

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cement
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Nuh Cement, a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems. The systems were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and expensive. The manufacturer’s siloed IT infrastructure included legacy servers and stand-alone storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The company’s IT department relied on a variety of data backup and recovery tools for data protection. Disasters or hardware failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with the performance, reliability, and economics of its aging information systems, Nuh’s IT team launched a business transformation program to upgrade the company’s IT infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	Nuh Cement (Nuh Çimento) is a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products. The Turkey-based company operates the highest capacity cement production facility in all of Europe. Nuh recently replaced its legacy IT systems with Simplivity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure. The next-generation distributed data center reduces total cost of ownership, streamlines operations, and ensures efficient and reliable data protection for the company’s business-critical applications. Read More
Solution	After a thorough investigation process involving a number of vendors including Dell, HP, and IBM, Nuh selected SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems for its next-generation data center. The SimpliVity 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. Nuh implemented a 4+2 OmniCube federation configuration for ultimate data protection. The manufacturer replaced four racks of legacy equipment with four clustered 2U OmniCube CN-3000 systems in its primary data center. They also deployed two OmniCube CN-3000 systems in a remote data center for disaster recovery. The IT group centrally manages the distributed configuration using VMware vCenter. 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

Cement

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Nuh Cement, a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems. The systems were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and expensive. The manufacturer’s siloed IT infrastructure included legacy servers and stand-alone storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The company’s IT department relied on a variety of data backup and recovery tools for data protection. Disasters or hardware failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with the performance, reliability, and economics of its aging information systems, Nuh’s IT team launched a business transformation program to upgrade the company’s IT infrastructure.

About Customer

Nuh Cement (Nuh Çimento) is a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products. The Turkey-based company operates the highest capacity cement production facility in all of Europe. Nuh recently replaced its legacy IT systems with Simplivity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure. The next-generation distributed data center reduces total cost of ownership, streamlines operations, and ensures efficient and reliable data protection for the company’s business-critical applications.

Solution

After a thorough investigation process involving a number of vendors including Dell, HP, and IBM, Nuh selected SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems for its next-generation data center. The SimpliVity 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. Nuh implemented a 4+2 OmniCube federation configuration for ultimate data protection. The manufacturer replaced four racks of legacy equipment with four clustered 2U OmniCube CN-3000 systems in its primary data center. They also deployed two OmniCube CN-3000 systems in a remote data center for disaster recovery. The IT group centrally manages the distributed configuration using VMware vCenter.

Impact #1	Improved SAP application performance by more than 75%
Impact #2	Accelerated data protection
Impact #3	Backups and restores completed in minutes compared to hours

Impact #1

Improved SAP application performance by more than 75%

Impact #2

Accelerated data protection

Impact #3

Backups and restores completed in minutes compared to hours

Benefit #1	Improved SAP application performance by more than 75%
Benefit #2	Reduced total cost of ownership; Four equipment racks consolidated into four 2U units
Benefit #3	Reduced storage costs; 19.2:1 data efficiency

Benefit #1

Improved SAP application performance by more than 75%

Benefit #2

Reduced total cost of ownership; Four equipment racks consolidated into four 2U units

Benefit #3

Reduced storage costs; 19.2:1 data efficiency

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Global Manufacturer Chooses SimpliVity for IT Refresh, App Delivery improvement and Disaster Recovery

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