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	International Manufacturer Improves Application Performance by 4X with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

International Manufacturer Improves Application Performance by 4X with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Romac Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry, was facing challenges with its legacy multivendor IT environment. The existing infrastructure, a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC, had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain and scale. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. Russell Turley, IT Manager for Romac, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the performance and reliability of the company’s IT systems. Read More
About Customer	Romac Industries is a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry. The company was dealing with a legacy multivendor IT environment that had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain, and scale. The existing infrastructure was a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. The company needed a solution that would improve the performance and reliability of its IT systems. Read More
Solution	Romac Industries selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for its next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in one device, with a unified administrative interface. Romac deployed five SimpliVity nodes in its primary data center, replacing four racks of legacy equipment. A fully redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. Four additional SimpliVity nodes are installed in a remote data center for rapid disaster recovery. SimpliVity’s real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Romac Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry, was facing challenges with its legacy multivendor IT environment. The existing infrastructure, a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC, had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain and scale. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. Russell Turley, IT Manager for Romac, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the performance and reliability of the company’s IT systems.

About Customer

Romac Industries is a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry. The company was dealing with a legacy multivendor IT environment that had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain, and scale. The existing infrastructure was a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. The company needed a solution that would improve the performance and reliability of its IT systems.

Solution

Romac Industries selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for its next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in one device, with a unified administrative interface. Romac deployed five SimpliVity nodes in its primary data center, replacing four racks of legacy equipment. A fully redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. Four additional SimpliVity nodes are installed in a remote data center for rapid disaster recovery. SimpliVity’s real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency.

Impact #1	Up to 4X improvement in application performance
Impact #2	Rapid data protection and disaster recovery; TB VMs backed up and restored in minutes compared to days
Impact #3	Massive storage savings; 800TB of logical data consumes only 7.4TB of disk space

Impact #1

Up to 4X improvement in application performance

Impact #2

Rapid data protection and disaster recovery; TB VMs backed up and restored in minutes compared to days

Impact #3

Massive storage savings; 800TB of logical data consumes only 7.4TB of disk space

Benefit #1	4X improvement in application performance
Benefit #2	TB VMs backed up and restored in minutes compared to days
Benefit #3	800TB of logical data consumes only 7.4TB of disk space

Benefit #1

4X improvement in application performance

Benefit #2

TB VMs backed up and restored in minutes compared to days

Benefit #3

800TB of logical data consumes only 7.4TB of disk space

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International Manufacturer Improves Application Performance by 4X with SimpliVity

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