Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Online retailer turns to SimpliVity to modernize IT infrastructure and improve disaster recovery

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	Online retailer turns to SimpliVity to modernize IT infrastructure and improve disaster recovery Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Online retailer turns to SimpliVity to modernize IT infrastructure and improve disaster recovery

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Princess House, a leading online retailer of housewares, crystal and collectables, was facing challenges with its aging IT systems which were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky and costly. The retailer’s legacy IT infrastructure included Dell PowerEdge servers and EqualLogic storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on four different data backup and recovery tools to protect a variety of enterprise and line-of-business applications. Using the fragmented data protection solutions, the IT team was able to back up fewer than 30% of the company’s virtual servers. Disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair IT services and disrupt business; restoring critical applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with Dell’s customer support, and unhappy with the performance, reliability and economics of the company’s aging IT systems, Sean Lane, IT Manager for Princess House, initiated a data center modernization program. Read More
About Customer	Princess House is a leading online retailer of housewares, crystal and collectables. The company was facing challenges with its aging IT systems which were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky and costly. The retailer’s legacy IT infrastructure included Dell PowerEdge servers and EqualLogic storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on four different data backup and recovery tools to protect a variety of enterprise and line-of-business applications. Using the fragmented data protection solutions, the IT team was able to back up fewer than 30% of the company’s virtual servers. Disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair IT services and disrupt business; restoring critical applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Read More
Solution	After a thorough investigation process involving a number of vendors including Dell, Nutanix® and ExaGrid™, Lane selected SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems for its next-generation data center architecture. SimpliVity OmniCube eliminates infrastructure cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup—onto virtualized, industry-standard x86 hardware. Princess House implemented a 2+1 OmniCube federation configuration for ultimate data protection. The company replaced five racks of legacy Dell equipment with two clustered 2U OmniCube CN-3000 systems in its primary data center. They also deployed an OmniCube CN-3000 in a remote colocation center for disaster recovery. The IT group centrally manages the distributed configuration using VMware vCenter. 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

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Princess House, a leading online retailer of housewares, crystal and collectables, was facing challenges with its aging IT systems which were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky and costly. The retailer’s legacy IT infrastructure included Dell PowerEdge servers and EqualLogic storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on four different data backup and recovery tools to protect a variety of enterprise and line-of-business applications. Using the fragmented data protection solutions, the IT team was able to back up fewer than 30% of the company’s virtual servers. Disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair IT services and disrupt business; restoring critical applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with Dell’s customer support, and unhappy with the performance, reliability and economics of the company’s aging IT systems, Sean Lane, IT Manager for Princess House, initiated a data center modernization program.

About Customer

Princess House is a leading online retailer of housewares, crystal and collectables. The company was facing challenges with its aging IT systems which were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky and costly. The retailer’s legacy IT infrastructure included Dell PowerEdge servers and EqualLogic storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on four different data backup and recovery tools to protect a variety of enterprise and line-of-business applications. Using the fragmented data protection solutions, the IT team was able to back up fewer than 30% of the company’s virtual servers. Disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair IT services and disrupt business; restoring critical applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions.

Solution

After a thorough investigation process involving a number of vendors including Dell, Nutanix® and ExaGrid™, Lane selected SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems for its next-generation data center architecture. SimpliVity OmniCube eliminates infrastructure cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup—onto virtualized, industry-standard x86 hardware. Princess House implemented a 2+1 OmniCube federation configuration for ultimate data protection. The company replaced five racks of legacy Dell equipment with two clustered 2U OmniCube CN-3000 systems in its primary data center. They also deployed an OmniCube CN-3000 in a remote colocation center for disaster recovery. The IT group centrally manages the distributed configuration using VMware vCenter.

Impact #1	Full data protection for all applications
Impact #2	Faster data protection; backups/restores completed in minutes compared to hours or days
Impact #3	Lower TCO; five equipment racks consolidated into two 2U units

Impact #1

Full data protection for all applications

Impact #2

Faster data protection; backups/restores completed in minutes compared to hours or days

Impact #3

Lower TCO; five equipment racks consolidated into two 2U units

Benefit #1	Reduced TCO; five equipment racks consolidated into two 2U units
Benefit #2	Improved performance of business-critical applications
Benefit #3	Reduced storage costs; 69:1 data efficiency

Benefit #1

Reduced TCO; five equipment racks consolidated into two 2U units

Benefit #2

Improved performance of business-critical applications

Benefit #3

Reduced storage costs; 69:1 data efficiency

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Online retailer turns to SimpliVity to modernize IT infrastructure and improve disaster recovery

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