Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Local government consolidates infrastructure to the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform to support and protect mission critical 911 applications

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	Local government consolidates infrastructure to the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform to support and protect mission critical 911 applications Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Local government consolidates infrastructure to the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform to support and protect mission critical 911 applications

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The IT department for the City of Arvada needed to update its Computer Aided Dispatch and Record Management System (CAD/RMS), a critical application that drives dispatching and logging for the emergency 911 services and police employees working around the city. The existing system was running on Cisco Blade servers connected to a Dell Compellent SAN, and this configuration was becoming too expensive to augment and maintain effectively. The department looked for an affordable, efficient, reliable, and easily manageable solution that would enable the IT staff to maintain the high-end levels of service expected by the city staff. They also needed to improve their disaster recovery capabilities. Read More
About Customer	The City of Arvada is a local city government in the Western United States. The IT department for the City of Arvada recently partnered with the city’s internal staff and all of its departments to deliver efficient and effective information services in order to enable the departments to provide key services to the citizens and community. A small, dedicated staff of 29 provides technology management for all city departments, including the police department, city-owned websites, financial management systems, and many other business systems. Read More
Solution	The city government evaluated SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform—its globally federated, hyperconverged IT infrastructure solution—and found that it met their needs better than any other solution on the market. OmniCube provided the storage that the city needed for all of its new virtual machines with a smaller data center footprint, lower costs, easier management, and faster roll-out than its management as well as faster roll-out than traditional or alternative “hyperconverged” solutions. In addition, OmniCube’s “data-center-in-a-box” methodology provided advanced disaster recovery capabilities. It provided the ability to quickly test DR, enabling the security to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster, a comfort level that was previously unavailable with their legacy technology. The city government, and its IT staff, installed two OmniCube CN-3000s in the city’s production environment and two redundant OmniCube CN-3000s in its backup data center. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The IT department for the City of Arvada needed to update its Computer Aided Dispatch and Record Management System (CAD/RMS), a critical application that drives dispatching and logging for the emergency 911 services and police employees working around the city. The existing system was running on Cisco Blade servers connected to a Dell Compellent SAN, and this configuration was becoming too expensive to augment and maintain effectively. The department looked for an affordable, efficient, reliable, and easily manageable solution that would enable the IT staff to maintain the high-end levels of service expected by the city staff. They also needed to improve their disaster recovery capabilities.

About Customer

The City of Arvada is a local city government in the Western United States. The IT department for the City of Arvada recently partnered with the city’s internal staff and all of its departments to deliver efficient and effective information services in order to enable the departments to provide key services to the citizens and community. A small, dedicated staff of 29 provides technology management for all city departments, including the police department, city-owned websites, financial management systems, and many other business systems.

Solution

The city government evaluated SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform—its globally federated, hyperconverged IT infrastructure solution—and found that it met their needs better than any other solution on the market. OmniCube provided the storage that the city needed for all of its new virtual machines with a smaller data center footprint, lower costs, easier management, and faster roll-out than its management as well as faster roll-out than traditional or alternative “hyperconverged” solutions. In addition, OmniCube’s “data-center-in-a-box” methodology provided advanced disaster recovery capabilities. It provided the ability to quickly test DR, enabling the security to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster, a comfort level that was previously unavailable with their legacy technology. The city government, and its IT staff, installed two OmniCube CN-3000s in the city’s production environment and two redundant OmniCube CN-3000s in its backup data center.

Impact #1	Improved performance for end users
Impact #2	Ability to test disaster recovery and failover on a per VM-basis
Impact #3	Scale-out capability

Impact #1

Improved performance for end users

Impact #2

Ability to test disaster recovery and failover on a per VM-basis

Impact #3

Scale-out capability

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Overview

Local government consolidates infrastructure to the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform to support and protect mission critical 911 applications

Operational Impact