Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies £1.2 Billion Entertainment Company Standardizes on SimpliVity for Global Remote Site Infrastructure

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	£1.2 Billion Entertainment Company Standardizes on SimpliVity for Global Remote Site Infrastructure Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

£1.2 Billion Entertainment Company Standardizes on SimpliVity for Global Remote Site Infrastructure

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 Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Merlin Entertainments, a large entertainment company, was facing challenges with its fragmented IT infrastructure. The company relied on a mix of independent server, storage, and data protection solutions at its remote sites. Equipment configurations and vendors varied widely from property to property, making administration and support a complicated and time-consuming process. The company initiated a modernization program to simplify operations and improve the economics, performance, and reliability of the company’s distributed IT environment. Read More
About Customer	Merlin Entertainments is the largest European-based entertainment company, operating 110 attractions in 23 countries across four continents. The company’s resort theme parks and midway attractions include world-renowned brands such as LEGOLAND® resorts, Madame Tussauds, and SEA LIFE aquariums. The company was looking to standardize its IT operations for its global attractions and theme parks. The SimpliVity solution was chosen to eliminate IT cost and complexity and ensure high performance and availability for business-critical applications and data. Read More
Solution	Merlin Entertainments selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the standard operating environment for its resort theme parks and midway attractions across the world. SimpliVity OmniCube eliminates IT sprawl, cost, and complexity by providing a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The company standardized on two remote site layouts: a single-node configuration for midway attractions and a multi-node configuration for theme parks. Each remote location is backed up to an OmniCube in a regional data center for disaster recovery. Site-to-site operational failover is supported for 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 Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Merlin Entertainments, a large entertainment company, was facing challenges with its fragmented IT infrastructure. The company relied on a mix of independent server, storage, and data protection solutions at its remote sites. Equipment configurations and vendors varied widely from property to property, making administration and support a complicated and time-consuming process. The company initiated a modernization program to simplify operations and improve the economics, performance, and reliability of the company’s distributed IT environment.

About Customer

Merlin Entertainments is the largest European-based entertainment company, operating 110 attractions in 23 countries across four continents. The company’s resort theme parks and midway attractions include world-renowned brands such as LEGOLAND® resorts, Madame Tussauds, and SEA LIFE aquariums. The company was looking to standardize its IT operations for its global attractions and theme parks. The SimpliVity solution was chosen to eliminate IT cost and complexity and ensure high performance and availability for business-critical applications and data.

Solution

Merlin Entertainments selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the standard operating environment for its resort theme parks and midway attractions across the world. SimpliVity OmniCube eliminates IT sprawl, cost, and complexity by providing a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The company standardized on two remote site layouts: a single-node configuration for midway attractions and a multi-node configuration for theme parks. Each remote location is backed up to an OmniCube in a regional data center for disaster recovery. Site-to-site operational failover is supported for business continuity.

Impact #1	Simplified operations with IT generalists overseeing the entire deployment, freeing up specialists for innovation.
Impact #2	Dramatic infrastructure consolidation with three full equipment racks supplanted by two 2U nodes.
Impact #3	Improved availability for critical apps with zero SimpliVity downtime since inception.

Impact #1

Simplified operations with IT generalists overseeing the entire deployment, freeing up specialists for innovation.

Impact #2

Dramatic infrastructure consolidation with three full equipment racks supplanted by two 2U nodes.

Impact #3

Improved availability for critical apps with zero SimpliVity downtime since inception.

Benefit #1	25% three-year TCO savings compared to alternative solutions.
Benefit #2	New sites up and running in hours compared to days with previous systems.
Benefit #3	Data backup and recovery in seconds or minutes.

Benefit #1

25% three-year TCO savings compared to alternative solutions.

Benefit #2

New sites up and running in hours compared to days with previous systems.

Benefit #3

Data backup and recovery in seconds or minutes.

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£1.2 Billion Entertainment Company Standardizes on SimpliVity for Global Remote Site Infrastructure

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