Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Multinational Retailer Simplifies Operations and Improves Data Protection with SimpliVity

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	Multinational Retailer Simplifies Operations and Improves Data Protection with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Multinational Retailer Simplifies Operations and Improves Data Protection with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing Business Operation
Use Cases	Retail Store Automation Inventory Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Sasa Singapore, a leading cosmetics retailing group in Asia, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems which were nearing the end of their useful life. The company was continuously looking for innovative ways to contain costs and streamline operations. The Commercial Manager for Sasa, John Seah, decided the time was right to consolidate and simplify the corporate data center. The company evaluated a number of options including Nutanix, and eventually selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for the retailer’s next-generation IT implementation. Read More
About Customer	Sasa Singapore is one of the leading cosmetics retailing groups in Asia. The company offers more than 400 brands, covering 10,000 skin care, fragrance, make-up, hair care and body care products and health supplements including own-brands and exclusive products. Sasa prospers on its successful and proven “one-stop cosmetic specialty store” concept which aims to provide customers with the widest range of high quality products at the most competitive value. Read More
Solution	SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources that delivers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including hypervisor, compute, storage, and data protection functions—in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. Two 2U SimpliVity nodes ensure high performance and reliability for the retailer’s core IT services and business applications including revenue-critical POS systems. SimpliVity’s VM-centric management interface simplifies operations and accelerates IT service agility. IT generalists can perform routine operations directly from VMware vCenter, freeing up Sasa IT specialists to focus on more strategic tasks. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Business Operation

Use Cases

Retail Store Automation

Inventory Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Sasa Singapore, a leading cosmetics retailing group in Asia, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems which were nearing the end of their useful life. The company was continuously looking for innovative ways to contain costs and streamline operations. The Commercial Manager for Sasa, John Seah, decided the time was right to consolidate and simplify the corporate data center. The company evaluated a number of options including Nutanix, and eventually selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for the retailer’s next-generation IT implementation.

About Customer

Sasa Singapore is one of the leading cosmetics retailing groups in Asia. The company offers more than 400 brands, covering 10,000 skin care, fragrance, make-up, hair care and body care products and health supplements including own-brands and exclusive products. Sasa prospers on its successful and proven “one-stop cosmetic specialty store” concept which aims to provide customers with the widest range of high quality products at the most competitive value.

Solution

SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources that delivers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including hypervisor, compute, storage, and data protection functions—in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. Two 2U SimpliVity nodes ensure high performance and reliability for the retailer’s core IT services and business applications including revenue-critical POS systems. SimpliVity’s VM-centric management interface simplifies operations and accelerates IT service agility. IT generalists can perform routine operations directly from VMware vCenter, freeing up Sasa IT specialists to focus on more strategic tasks.

Impact #1	Fast and efficient data protection for all applications and services
Impact #2	Backups and restores completed in minutes compared to hours
Impact #3	Simplified operations; IT staff freed up for innovation

Impact #1

Fast and efficient data protection for all applications and services

Impact #2

Backups and restores completed in minutes compared to hours

Impact #3

Simplified operations; IT staff freed up for innovation

Benefit #1	100% uptime since deployment
Benefit #2	239TB of logical data consumes only 1.9TB of disk space

Benefit #1

100% uptime since deployment

Benefit #2

239TB of logical data consumes only 1.9TB of disk space

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Multinational Retailer Simplifies Operations and Improves Data Protection with SimpliVity

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