Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Multinational Corporation turns to SimpliVity to Streamline Remote Office Operations and Enable Company-Wide ERP Initiative

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	Multinational Corporation turns to SimpliVity to Streamline Remote Office Operations and Enable Company-Wide ERP Initiative Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Multinational Corporation turns to SimpliVity to Streamline Remote Office Operations and Enable Company-Wide ERP Initiative

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Mining
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Logistics & Transportation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Fleet Management Inventory Management Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	The Coughlan Companies, a multinational corporation with a central data center in Minnesota and four offices throughout the U.S. and the U.K., was facing challenges with its fragmented IT environment. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment across its different sites, which was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and costly to operate. The IT team had to manage the entire multinational operation from Minnesota, with little or no IT support at the remote locations. Managing the disjointed IT environment was a manually intensive, time-consuming endeavor involving a number of distinct administrative systems. Moreover, a full remote system backup or restoral could take days using the company's legacy data protection and recovery tools. The company planned to refresh and standardize its remote office infrastructure to eliminate operations expense and complexity, improve performance, and mitigate risks. Read More
About Customer	Coughlan Companies is a holding company based in Mankato, Minnesota. It serves as a holding company for Capstone, a publisher of children's books, and Jordan Sands, an industrial mining and processing company. The company has a multinational presence with a central data center in Minnesota and four offices throughout the U.S. and the U.K. The IT team manages the entire multinational operation from Minnesota, with little or no IT support at the remote locations. The company's IT environment was fragmented and relied on a mix of legacy equipment across its different sites, which was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and costly to operate. Read More
Solution	The Coughlan IT team standardized on SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems across its geographically distributed enterprise. The SimpliVity solution reduces total cost of ownership by simplifying operations and consolidating equipment, and reduces risks by improving data protection. The unified IT infrastructure laid a solid foundation for Coughlan's Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP rollout. Coughlan replaced multiple servers and storage systems at each remote site with a single 2U OmniCube CN-2000 series systems. The central operations team manages the enterprise-wide implementation in a uniform manner using VMware vCenter. SimpliVity's innovative architecture with real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency. The highly scalable solution improves performance while containing storage costs and radically improves data backup and recovery operations across geographies. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Mining

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Logistics & Transportation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Inventory Management

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Coughlan Companies, a multinational corporation with a central data center in Minnesota and four offices throughout the U.S. and the U.K., was facing challenges with its fragmented IT environment. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment across its different sites, which was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and costly to operate. The IT team had to manage the entire multinational operation from Minnesota, with little or no IT support at the remote locations. Managing the disjointed IT environment was a manually intensive, time-consuming endeavor involving a number of distinct administrative systems. Moreover, a full remote system backup or restoral could take days using the company's legacy data protection and recovery tools. The company planned to refresh and standardize its remote office infrastructure to eliminate operations expense and complexity, improve performance, and mitigate risks.

About Customer

Coughlan Companies is a holding company based in Mankato, Minnesota. It serves as a holding company for Capstone, a publisher of children's books, and Jordan Sands, an industrial mining and processing company. The company has a multinational presence with a central data center in Minnesota and four offices throughout the U.S. and the U.K. The IT team manages the entire multinational operation from Minnesota, with little or no IT support at the remote locations. The company's IT environment was fragmented and relied on a mix of legacy equipment across its different sites, which was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and costly to operate.

Solution

The Coughlan IT team standardized on SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems across its geographically distributed enterprise. The SimpliVity solution reduces total cost of ownership by simplifying operations and consolidating equipment, and reduces risks by improving data protection. The unified IT infrastructure laid a solid foundation for Coughlan's Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP rollout. Coughlan replaced multiple servers and storage systems at each remote site with a single 2U OmniCube CN-2000 series systems. The central operations team manages the enterprise-wide implementation in a uniform manner using VMware vCenter. SimpliVity's innovative architecture with real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency. The highly scalable solution improves performance while containing storage costs and radically improves data backup and recovery operations across geographies.

Impact #1	Freed up IT staff to focus on strategic business initiatives
Impact #2	Centralized and unified remote office operations
Impact #3	Improved overall application performance by 20% or more

Impact #1

Freed up IT staff to focus on strategic business initiatives

Impact #2

Centralized and unified remote office operations

Impact #3

Improved overall application performance by 20% or more

Benefit #1	Overall application performance improved by 20% or more
Benefit #2	Data efficiency as great as 896:1
Benefit #3	Physical storage consumption reduced by 63%

Benefit #1

Overall application performance improved by 20% or more

Benefit #2

Data efficiency as great as 896:1

Benefit #3

Physical storage consumption reduced by 63%

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Multinational Corporation turns to SimpliVity to Streamline Remote Office Operations and Enable Company-Wide ERP Initiative

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