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Namibia Institute of Pathology Limited Brings IT In-House

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Namibia Institute of Pathology decided it was time to bring all of their IT operations in-house to gain better management and control. They had been using physical servers, with storage associated to each, and relying on tape backups. NIP didn’t have any disaster recovery capabilities. They did have multiple sites and the need for modernization, consolidation, data protection, high availability, and of course, disaster recovery. The main criteria for NIP’s team was simplified IT. They needed migration from outsourced to in-house IT that could be done without additional skills and resources that the organization didn’t have. They didn’t have the budget that would be needed to get those skills through outside specialists and consultants, but they had to find a solution that could accomplish their goals. Read More
About Customer	The Namibia Institute of Pathology Limited provides medical lab services to health facilities throughout Namibia. It’s the largest diagnostic pathology service provider in the country, with more than 450 employees and 40 labs. Since 2000, it has offered testing and disease monitoring services for private and public health sectors. Until it implemented SimpliVity, the organization outsourced all of its IT. The IT team at the Institute, led by Valerie Garises, Chief Technology Officer, were essentially starting with a greenfield environment. For the previous eight years, the Institute had outsourced all IT to SALT Essential IT, a reseller and services provider. Read More
Solution	Namibia Institute of Pathology wanted a data center in a box solution that would simplify their IT environment. They chose SimpliVity's hyperconverged infrastructure solution as it was the only one that could offer all the features NIP needed, such as disaster recovery, data protection, and high availability. 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. NIP has 32 virtual machines running in their environment, with just under 35TB of VM data. NIP has almost 4PB of backup data being stored, and now maintains one production and one disaster recovery site. SimpliVity nodes are located at both sites for fast, simple full backups and replications. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Namibia Institute of Pathology decided it was time to bring all of their IT operations in-house to gain better management and control. They had been using physical servers, with storage associated to each, and relying on tape backups. NIP didn’t have any disaster recovery capabilities. They did have multiple sites and the need for modernization, consolidation, data protection, high availability, and of course, disaster recovery. The main criteria for NIP’s team was simplified IT. They needed migration from outsourced to in-house IT that could be done without additional skills and resources that the organization didn’t have. They didn’t have the budget that would be needed to get those skills through outside specialists and consultants, but they had to find a solution that could accomplish their goals.

About Customer

The Namibia Institute of Pathology Limited provides medical lab services to health facilities throughout Namibia. It’s the largest diagnostic pathology service provider in the country, with more than 450 employees and 40 labs. Since 2000, it has offered testing and disease monitoring services for private and public health sectors. Until it implemented SimpliVity, the organization outsourced all of its IT. The IT team at the Institute, led by Valerie Garises, Chief Technology Officer, were essentially starting with a greenfield environment. For the previous eight years, the Institute had outsourced all IT to SALT Essential IT, a reseller and services provider.

Solution

Namibia Institute of Pathology wanted a data center in a box solution that would simplify their IT environment. They chose SimpliVity's hyperconverged infrastructure solution as it was the only one that could offer all the features NIP needed, such as disaster recovery, data protection, and high availability. 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. NIP has 32 virtual machines running in their environment, with just under 35TB of VM data. NIP has almost 4PB of backup data being stored, and now maintains one production and one disaster recovery site. SimpliVity nodes are located at both sites for fast, simple full backups and replications.

Impact #1	Added DR, data protection, and high availability
Impact #2	Consolidated physical servers from 40U to 6U of rack space
Impact #3	Brought disaster recovery site online and added remote backup features

Impact #1

Added DR, data protection, and high availability

Impact #2

Consolidated physical servers from 40U to 6U of rack space

Impact #3

Brought disaster recovery site online and added remote backup features

Benefit #1	94.1:1 data efficiency ratio

Benefit #1

94.1:1 data efficiency ratio

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Namibia Institute of Pathology Limited Brings IT In-House

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