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	OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS Accelerates IT Modernization, Data Migration and DevOps Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS Accelerates IT Modernization, Data Migration and DevOps

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Marketing Innovators’ aging IT systems–HP servers and SAN arrays supporting a variety of business applications–were becoming increasingly costly and inefficient to operate, impairing service agility and business innovation. Deploying new workloads–allocating compute and storage resources, configuring data protection policies–took days using the company’s legacy storage solutions and data backup and replication tools. Shane Ladd, Sr. System Administrator for Marketing Innovators, initiated a data center modernization program to improve the scalability, performance and economics of the company’s IT infrastructure. After an extensive evaluation process involving a number of vendors including Nutanix®, Nimble Storage, Scale Computing and Maxta®, Ladd selected SimpliVity OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS for its next-generation data center architecture. Read More
About Customer	Marketing Innovators International, a leader in people performance management solutions, replaced its legacy HP server and storage systems with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity OmniStack solution with Cisco UCS helps the firm reduce TCO, improve IT agility and ensure high performance and availability for the company’s business-critical applications and data. Read More
Solution	SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is designed from the ground up to meet the increased performance, scalability and agility demands of today’s data-intensive, highly virtualized IT environments. The solution eliminates cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions–including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup–onto virtualized, industry-standard x86 hardware, with global unified management. The solution delivers the best of both worlds: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities including VM mobility, Data Efficiency, Performance and Global Unified Management. With their transformation project Marketing Innovators replaced seven racks of legacy HP equipment with four 2U OmniStack with Cisco UCS C240 M4 nodes in half a rack. The SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure solution with built-in VM mobility and data protection slashes TCO by reducing space, power and cooling requirements and simplifying ongoing administration. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Marketing Innovators’ aging IT systems–HP servers and SAN arrays supporting a variety of business applications–were becoming increasingly costly and inefficient to operate, impairing service agility and business innovation. Deploying new workloads–allocating compute and storage resources, configuring data protection policies–took days using the company’s legacy storage solutions and data backup and replication tools. Shane Ladd, Sr. System Administrator for Marketing Innovators, initiated a data center modernization program to improve the scalability, performance and economics of the company’s IT infrastructure. After an extensive evaluation process involving a number of vendors including Nutanix®, Nimble Storage, Scale Computing and Maxta®, Ladd selected SimpliVity OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS for its next-generation data center architecture.

About Customer

Marketing Innovators International, a leader in people performance management solutions, replaced its legacy HP server and storage systems with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity OmniStack solution with Cisco UCS helps the firm reduce TCO, improve IT agility and ensure high performance and availability for the company’s business-critical applications and data.

Solution

SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is designed from the ground up to meet the increased performance, scalability and agility demands of today’s data-intensive, highly virtualized IT environments. The solution eliminates cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions–including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup–onto virtualized, industry-standard x86 hardware, with global unified management. The solution delivers the best of both worlds: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities including VM mobility, Data Efficiency, Performance and Global Unified Management. With their transformation project Marketing Innovators replaced seven racks of legacy HP equipment with four 2U OmniStack with Cisco UCS C240 M4 nodes in half a rack. The SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure solution with built-in VM mobility and data protection slashes TCO by reducing space, power and cooling requirements and simplifying ongoing administration.

Impact #1	The IT team manages the entire next-generation data center from a single, familiar VMware vCenter vSphere console.
Impact #2	SimpliVity’s VM-centric administration improves IT agility and frees up staff to focus on business innovation.
Impact #3	With OmniStack, the company can clone and move VMs and deploy new workloads in minutes or hours, compared to days with their previous solutions.

Impact #1

The IT team manages the entire next-generation data center from a single, familiar VMware vCenter vSphere console.

Impact #2

SimpliVity’s VM-centric administration improves IT agility and frees up staff to focus on business innovation.

Impact #3

With OmniStack, the company can clone and move VMs and deploy new workloads in minutes or hours, compared to days with their previous solutions.

Benefit #1	Reduced TCO; 14X reduced footprint; seven equipment racks consolidated into four 2U units
Benefit #2	Rapid data migration; VMs moved over to new data center in minutes
Benefit #3	Increased application performance: up to 75% improvement

Benefit #1

Reduced TCO; 14X reduced footprint; seven equipment racks consolidated into four 2U units

Benefit #2

Rapid data migration; VMs moved over to new data center in minutes

Benefit #3

Increased application performance: up to 75% improvement

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OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS Accelerates IT Modernization, Data Migration and DevOps

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