Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies IT Solution Provider Improves Customer Satisfaction and Simplifies Operations with SimpliVity

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	IT Solution Provider Improves Customer Satisfaction and Simplifies Operations with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

IT Solution Provider Improves Customer Satisfaction and Simplifies Operations with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Simac, a Belgian IT solutions integrator and services provider, was facing challenges with its legacy data center—a mix of HP servers and NetApp storage systems—which had become too costly and complex to manage and scale. Provisioning customers and troubleshooting problems was a time-consuming, resource-intensive proposition involving many distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. Simac planned to move its IT operations to a colocation facility to support its growing business. Deciding the time was right for a technology refresh, Steven De Prins, Cross Domain Architect for Simac, selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the platform for the company’s next-generation IT architecture. Read More
About Customer	Simac is a Belgian IT solutions integrator and services provider. The company uses SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure to power its remotely hosted application and network performance monitoring service. The SimpliVity solution enables Simac to deliver higher performance, revenue-critical services—reliably, easily and cost-effectively. Simac’s legacy data center—a mix of HP servers and NetApp storage systems—had become too costly and complex to manage and scale. Provisioning customers and troubleshooting problems was a time-consuming, resource-intensive proposition involving many distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. Read More
Solution	Simac deployed two 2U SimpliVity nodes in its new colocation facility, replacing nearly an entire rack of legacy equipment. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. A third SimpliVity node in the corporate data center supports development, test and disaster recovery functions. The SimpliVity solution simplifies operations and improves service agility. IT generalists in the Remote Monitoring business can provision customers quickly and easily, without involving corporate IT. Service administrators can now clone, move, backup and restore VMs in two or three mouse clicks. The SimpliVity solution also improves application performance and availability. The platform performs hardware-assisted inline deduplication, compression and optimization on all of its data while conserving storage capacity and freeing up system resources for business-critical applications. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Simac, a Belgian IT solutions integrator and services provider, was facing challenges with its legacy data center—a mix of HP servers and NetApp storage systems—which had become too costly and complex to manage and scale. Provisioning customers and troubleshooting problems was a time-consuming, resource-intensive proposition involving many distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. Simac planned to move its IT operations to a colocation facility to support its growing business. Deciding the time was right for a technology refresh, Steven De Prins, Cross Domain Architect for Simac, selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the platform for the company’s next-generation IT architecture.

About Customer

Simac is a Belgian IT solutions integrator and services provider. The company uses SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure to power its remotely hosted application and network performance monitoring service. The SimpliVity solution enables Simac to deliver higher performance, revenue-critical services—reliably, easily and cost-effectively. Simac’s legacy data center—a mix of HP servers and NetApp storage systems—had become too costly and complex to manage and scale. Provisioning customers and troubleshooting problems was a time-consuming, resource-intensive proposition involving many distinct, low-level administrative interfaces.

Solution

Simac deployed two 2U SimpliVity nodes in its new colocation facility, replacing nearly an entire rack of legacy equipment. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. A third SimpliVity node in the corporate data center supports development, test and disaster recovery functions. The SimpliVity solution simplifies operations and improves service agility. IT generalists in the Remote Monitoring business can provision customers quickly and easily, without involving corporate IT. Service administrators can now clone, move, backup and restore VMs in two or three mouse clicks. The SimpliVity solution also improves application performance and availability. The platform performs hardware-assisted inline deduplication, compression and optimization on all of its data while conserving storage capacity and freeing up system resources for business-critical applications.

Impact #1	Simplified operations and improved service agility
Impact #2	Improved application performance and availability
Impact #3	Conserved storage capacity and freed up system resources for business-critical applications

Impact #1

Simplified operations and improved service agility

Impact #2

Improved application performance and availability

Impact #3

Conserved storage capacity and freed up system resources for business-critical applications

Benefit #1	Superior application performance; 2-3X response time improvement
Benefit #2	Highly efficient storage; 53 TB of logical data consume 1.2 TB of physical storage
Benefit #3	Compact footprint; nearly a full rack of legacy gear replaced by two 2U units

Benefit #1

Superior application performance; 2-3X response time improvement

Benefit #2

Highly efficient storage; 53 TB of logical data consume 1.2 TB of physical storage

Benefit #3

Compact footprint; nearly a full rack of legacy gear replaced by two 2U units

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IT Solution Provider Improves Customer Satisfaction and Simplifies Operations with SimpliVity

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