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Syntrophos Optimizes Data Center with OmniCube

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Syntrophos, a Shared Service Center founded by four cities in the Netherlands, provides high quality ICT, GEO-information, and consulting services to over 120,000 citizens, as well as seven smaller governmental agencies. The company employs over 1400 staff and has a dedicated IT team of eleven focused on running and maintaining its mission-critical applications. With applications such as Oracle 11g; Microsoft SQL Server, DFS, and IIS; Horizon Workspace; CheckPoint Firewall; and Apache Webserver in its physical data centers, end user access to these critical services is a key priority. However, with plans to migrate all virtual machines and consolidate the four cities’ data centers by early 2015, Syntrophos faced major consolidation challenges and needed a solution that could virtualize and migrate the entire IT environment while supporting its Tier-1 applications. Read More
About Customer	Syntrophos is a Shared Service Center founded by four cities in the Netherlands. It provides high-quality ICT, GEO-information, and consulting services to over 120,000 citizens, as well as seven smaller governmental agencies. The company employs over 1400 staff and has a dedicated IT team of eleven focused on running and maintaining its mission-critical applications. These applications include Oracle 11g; Microsoft SQL Server, DFS, and IIS; Horizon Workspace; CheckPoint Firewall; and Apache Webserver. The company prioritizes continual evolution, responsiveness, and outstanding performance for its customers. Read More
Solution	Syntrophos implemented NetApp in two of its larger cities, and logically looked to NetApp’s FlexPod converged infrastructure as a solution. The company decided, however, that NetApp came with too many different consoles and management interfaces, which did not align with its initiatives to simplify the IT environment. Syntrophos then looked at Nutanix and Nimble, but those fell short of all the required capabilities it was seeking. Syntrophos sought an agile, flexible, highperforming, scalable, affordable, and simple product— nearly impossible standards until, through a partner, it was introduced to SimpliVity’s OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure. Syntrophos requested a live demo and could not believe what it saw. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Syntrophos, a Shared Service Center founded by four cities in the Netherlands, provides high quality ICT, GEO-information, and consulting services to over 120,000 citizens, as well as seven smaller governmental agencies. The company employs over 1400 staff and has a dedicated IT team of eleven focused on running and maintaining its mission-critical applications. With applications such as Oracle 11g; Microsoft SQL Server, DFS, and IIS; Horizon Workspace; CheckPoint Firewall; and Apache Webserver in its physical data centers, end user access to these critical services is a key priority. However, with plans to migrate all virtual machines and consolidate the four cities’ data centers by early 2015, Syntrophos faced major consolidation challenges and needed a solution that could virtualize and migrate the entire IT environment while supporting its Tier-1 applications.

About Customer

Syntrophos is a Shared Service Center founded by four cities in the Netherlands. It provides high-quality ICT, GEO-information, and consulting services to over 120,000 citizens, as well as seven smaller governmental agencies. The company employs over 1400 staff and has a dedicated IT team of eleven focused on running and maintaining its mission-critical applications. These applications include Oracle 11g; Microsoft SQL Server, DFS, and IIS; Horizon Workspace; CheckPoint Firewall; and Apache Webserver. The company prioritizes continual evolution, responsiveness, and outstanding performance for its customers.

Solution

Syntrophos implemented NetApp in two of its larger cities, and logically looked to NetApp’s FlexPod converged infrastructure as a solution. The company decided, however, that NetApp came with too many different consoles and management interfaces, which did not align with its initiatives to simplify the IT environment. Syntrophos then looked at Nutanix and Nimble, but those fell short of all the required capabilities it was seeking. Syntrophos sought an agile, flexible, highperforming, scalable, affordable, and simple product— nearly impossible standards until, through a partner, it was introduced to SimpliVity’s OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure. Syntrophos requested a live demo and could not believe what it saw.

Impact #1	OmniCube’s Global Unified Management enabled easy administration of all management interfaces from a single pane of glass; Syntrophos administrators could be in any of its four data centers and still access its workstations.
Impact #2	Five engineers were originally delegated to manage the entire IT environment. After SimpliVity, two engineers easily oversaw the virtual infrastructure, while the remaining three could now devote their energies to other mission-critical activities.
Impact #3	SimpliVity’s best-of-both-worlds offering that enables cloud economics with enterprise performance, protection, and data efficiency allowed Syntrophos to greatly improve its availability and recovery capabilities.

Impact #1

OmniCube’s Global Unified Management enabled easy administration of all management interfaces from a single pane of glass; Syntrophos administrators could be in any of its four data centers and still access its workstations.

Impact #2

Five engineers were originally delegated to manage the entire IT environment. After SimpliVity, two engineers easily oversaw the virtual infrastructure, while the remaining three could now devote their energies to other mission-critical activities.

Impact #3

SimpliVity’s best-of-both-worlds offering that enables cloud economics with enterprise performance, protection, and data efficiency allowed Syntrophos to greatly improve its availability and recovery capabilities.

Benefit #1	Drove data efficiency ratio of 63:1 via OmniCube’s inline deduplication,compression, and optimization.
Benefit #2	360TB capacity savings.
Benefit #3	Data center consolidation and reduction of 50%.

Benefit #1

Drove data efficiency ratio of 63:1 via OmniCube’s inline deduplication,compression, and optimization.

Benefit #2

360TB capacity savings.

Benefit #3

Data center consolidation and reduction of 50%.

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