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KHD achieves best of both: cloud benefits and enterprise capabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Cement
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	KHD, a global leader in cement plant technology, equipment, and services, was facing challenges with its legacy IT infrastructure. The company's data growth rates were increasing, and the costs associated with managing this data were also on the rise. The complexity within the data center was growing, with the need to deploy numerous different deduplication, compression, and optimization appliances to keep up with data growth and the performance requirements of enterprise applications. The increasing capital costs for added storage, compute, various appliances, and software licensing were a concern. Additionally, operational expenses were mounting as administrators were spending countless hours on menial maintenance tasks instead of focusing on innovation to drive the business forward. In certain countries, where staff turnover rates are typically high, the lack of trained IT resources was impacting growth. KHD needed a new solution, based on a fundamentally new data architecture. Read More
About Customer	KHD is a global leader in cement plant technology, equipment, and services with over 155 years of experience in the cement industry. The company offers a wide spectrum of products and aftermarket services for the cement industry and is a leader in energy-efficient and environmentally friendly products for the grinding and pyroprocessing sections of cement plants. In addition to its high-quality product offering, the technology-focused group includes process engineering and project management among its core competencies. KHD is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and has locations in India, Russia, China, Brazil, and the United States. As KHD’s business has expanded globally, so has its data growth rates and challenges with legacy IT infrastructure. Read More
Solution	KHD implemented HPE SimpliVity, a hyperconverged solution that provided the efficiency and agility of the cloud, improved IT productivity, and lowered total cost of ownership while maintaining enterprise capabilities. HPE SimpliVity provided KHD with the cost and efficiency of the cloud, while keeping its data and applications on-premise with its simple, scalable, modular 2U buildings blocks built on x86 commodity hardware. The solution offered two fundamental technological advances: the data virtualization and global unified management at the VM level. The Data Virtualization Platform offered deduplication, compression, and optimization of all data inline, at inception, once and forever across all stages of the data lifecycle. This improved KHD’s disaster recovery capabilities and eliminated the need for separate WAN optimization products. All HPE SimpliVity resources globally could be managed from a central location, from a single pane of glass, VMware vCenter. This reduced the number of products for which the IT staff needed to be trained. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Cement

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

KHD, a global leader in cement plant technology, equipment, and services, was facing challenges with its legacy IT infrastructure. The company's data growth rates were increasing, and the costs associated with managing this data were also on the rise. The complexity within the data center was growing, with the need to deploy numerous different deduplication, compression, and optimization appliances to keep up with data growth and the performance requirements of enterprise applications. The increasing capital costs for added storage, compute, various appliances, and software licensing were a concern. Additionally, operational expenses were mounting as administrators were spending countless hours on menial maintenance tasks instead of focusing on innovation to drive the business forward. In certain countries, where staff turnover rates are typically high, the lack of trained IT resources was impacting growth. KHD needed a new solution, based on a fundamentally new data architecture.

About Customer

KHD is a global leader in cement plant technology, equipment, and services with over 155 years of experience in the cement industry. The company offers a wide spectrum of products and aftermarket services for the cement industry and is a leader in energy-efficient and environmentally friendly products for the grinding and pyroprocessing sections of cement plants. In addition to its high-quality product offering, the technology-focused group includes process engineering and project management among its core competencies. KHD is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and has locations in India, Russia, China, Brazil, and the United States. As KHD’s business has expanded globally, so has its data growth rates and challenges with legacy IT infrastructure.

Solution

KHD implemented HPE SimpliVity, a hyperconverged solution that provided the efficiency and agility of the cloud, improved IT productivity, and lowered total cost of ownership while maintaining enterprise capabilities. HPE SimpliVity provided KHD with the cost and efficiency of the cloud, while keeping its data and applications on-premise with its simple, scalable, modular 2U buildings blocks built on x86 commodity hardware. The solution offered two fundamental technological advances: the data virtualization and global unified management at the VM level. The Data Virtualization Platform offered deduplication, compression, and optimization of all data inline, at inception, once and forever across all stages of the data lifecycle. This improved KHD’s disaster recovery capabilities and eliminated the need for separate WAN optimization products. All HPE SimpliVity resources globally could be managed from a central location, from a single pane of glass, VMware vCenter. This reduced the number of products for which the IT staff needed to be trained.

Impact #1	Data efficiency rates increased >100:1, dramatically improving data mobility and management
Impact #2	Increased operational efficiency, globally
Impact #3	Eliminated the need for ongoing training on new management screens

Impact #1

Data efficiency rates increased >100:1, dramatically improving data mobility and management

Impact #2

Increased operational efficiency, globally

Impact #3

Eliminated the need for ongoing training on new management screens

Benefit #1	Data efficiency rates increased more than 100:1

Benefit #1

Data efficiency rates increased more than 100:1

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KHD achieves best of both: cloud benefits and enterprise capabilities

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