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HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure Case Study - Brigham Young University

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Brigham Young University was facing significant challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The management burden was high and the university had a mandate to implement Disaster Recovery (DR) and improve backup/recovery. The existing infrastructure was not efficient and was causing delays in deploying new workloads. Read More
About Customer	Brigham Young University is a private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest religious university and the third largest private university in the U.S., with 34,000 on-campus students. The university offers a broad range of academic programs, including liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing, and law. Read More
Solution	The university decided to implement HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to address their challenges. HPE SimpliVity is a hyperconverged technology that brings all IT infrastructure and data services below the hypervisor into a single compact data center appliance. The HPE SimpliVity 380, based on the world’s best-selling server, is a compact, scalable building block that delivers server, storage, backup and DR in a 2U appliance. It includes built-in backup and bandwidth-efficient replication to help ensure data integrity and availability. The university used HPE SimpliVity for data center consolidation, private cloud, infrastructure modernization, technology refresh, and data migration. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Brigham Young University was facing significant challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The management burden was high and the university had a mandate to implement Disaster Recovery (DR) and improve backup/recovery. The existing infrastructure was not efficient and was causing delays in deploying new workloads.

About Customer

Brigham Young University is a private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest religious university and the third largest private university in the U.S., with 34,000 on-campus students. The university offers a broad range of academic programs, including liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing, and law.

Solution

The university decided to implement HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to address their challenges. HPE SimpliVity is a hyperconverged technology that brings all IT infrastructure and data services below the hypervisor into a single compact data center appliance. The HPE SimpliVity 380, based on the world’s best-selling server, is a compact, scalable building block that delivers server, storage, backup and DR in a 2U appliance. It includes built-in backup and bandwidth-efficient replication to help ensure data integrity and availability. The university used HPE SimpliVity for data center consolidation, private cloud, infrastructure modernization, technology refresh, and data migration.

Impact #1	Improved management of IT infrastructure
Impact #2	Simplified vendor management
Impact #3	Enhanced data integrity and availability

Impact #1

Improved management of IT infrastructure

Impact #2

Simplified vendor management

Impact #3

Enhanced data integrity and availability

Benefit #1	Improved performance by 25% to 50%
Benefit #2	Realized a capacity savings of 100:1 to 200:1
Benefit #3	Realized value in 3 to 6 months after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity

Benefit #1

Improved performance by 25% to 50%

Benefit #2

Realized a capacity savings of 100:1 to 200:1

Benefit #3

Realized value in 3 to 6 months after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity

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HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure Case Study - Brigham Young University

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