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	Neil Medical Group Slashes IT Cost and Complexity with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Neil Medical Group Slashes IT Cost and Complexity with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Inventory Management Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Neil Medical Group’s multivendor IT environment had reached the end of its useful life. The Group’s legacy infrastructure—a mix of IBM® AIX® servers, Dell™ rack servers and Dell EqualLogic™ storage systems—was performance-constrained and running out of capacity. And the company’s data protection methodologies, which relied heavily on tape backups, did not provide efficient disaster recovery or full business continuity for critical applications. Chad Benfield, Director of IT for Neil Medical Group sought to improve the performance, reliability and economics of the Group’s IT infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	Neil Medical Group is a long-term-care pharmacy services provider and medical supply distributor. The Group was operating on a multivendor IT environment that had reached the end of its useful life. The Group’s legacy infrastructure—a mix of IBM® AIX® servers, Dell™ rack servers and Dell EqualLogic™ storage systems—was performance-constrained and running out of capacity. The company’s data protection methodologies, which relied heavily on tape backups, did not provide efficient disaster recovery or full business continuity for critical applications. Read More
Solution	After investigating a number of options including solutions from Dell and Cisco, Benfield selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for the Group’s next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including server, storage and data protection functions—in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The Group deployed redundant SimpliVity OmniCube configurations in its Kinston and Mooresville, North Carolina data centers to ensure continuous availability in the event of hardware failures or application mishaps. Data is replicated across sites every 15 minutes for disaster recovery and business continuity. 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

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Neil Medical Group’s multivendor IT environment had reached the end of its useful life. The Group’s legacy infrastructure—a mix of IBM® AIX® servers, Dell™ rack servers and Dell EqualLogic™ storage systems—was performance-constrained and running out of capacity. And the company’s data protection methodologies, which relied heavily on tape backups, did not provide efficient disaster recovery or full business continuity for critical applications. Chad Benfield, Director of IT for Neil Medical Group sought to improve the performance, reliability and economics of the Group’s IT infrastructure.

About Customer

Neil Medical Group is a long-term-care pharmacy services provider and medical supply distributor. The Group was operating on a multivendor IT environment that had reached the end of its useful life. The Group’s legacy infrastructure—a mix of IBM® AIX® servers, Dell™ rack servers and Dell EqualLogic™ storage systems—was performance-constrained and running out of capacity. The company’s data protection methodologies, which relied heavily on tape backups, did not provide efficient disaster recovery or full business continuity for critical applications.

Solution

After investigating a number of options including solutions from Dell and Cisco, Benfield selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for the Group’s next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including server, storage and data protection functions—in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The Group deployed redundant SimpliVity OmniCube configurations in its Kinston and Mooresville, North Carolina data centers to ensure continuous availability in the event of hardware failures or application mishaps. Data is replicated across sites every 15 minutes for disaster recovery and business continuity.

Impact #1	Improved data protection for critical applications; backup and recovery in seconds compared to hours or days
Impact #2	Simplified administration; IT generalists manage entire operation
Impact #3	Rapid IT service agility; spin up VMs in seconds

Impact #1

Improved data protection for critical applications; backup and recovery in seconds compared to hours or days

Impact #2

Simplified administration; IT generalists manage entire operation

Impact #3

Rapid IT service agility; spin up VMs in seconds

Benefit #1	Data backup and recovery times for all applications from hours or days to just seconds
Benefit #2	In the Mooresville data center 1.64 PB of logical data consume only 19 TB of physical storage
Benefit #3	Perceived 25% improvement in application performance

Benefit #1

Data backup and recovery times for all applications from hours or days to just seconds

Benefit #2

In the Mooresville data center 1.64 PB of logical data consume only 19 TB of physical storage

Benefit #3

Perceived 25% improvement in application performance

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Neil Medical Group Slashes IT Cost and Complexity with SimpliVity

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