Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Case Studies Town government simplifies IT with OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver mission-critical applications

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	Town government simplifies IT with OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver mission-critical applications Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Town government simplifies IT with OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver mission-critical applications

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Public Transportation Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	The Town of Newington’s IT department faced an infrastructure that was becoming increasingly complicated. As the IT environment continued to expand, more ports, connectivity, interconnects, and cabling meant that the team of five was fighting a constant uphill battle when trying to diagnose system issues. In addition to this, the Town of Newington’s host count was growing along with the VM app and storage growth. The team’s two data centers were quickly running out of space, and with nine out of 15 possible TB used up, it was only a matter of time before further scaling would be necessary. The town’s backup and DR capabilities had grown outdated and required an upgrade. For years, Newington had been using IBM TSM and a complex, manual LTO tape rotation process for backup and DR. However, upgrading this system would have entailed a complete restructure of the backup solution and reconfiguration of all backup jobs. The IT team was tasked with finding the best virtualized, automated platform that would offer disruption-free backup and DR with minimized upkeep. Read More
About Customer	The Town of Newington, population of 30,000, is located just south of Hartford, Connecticut. The town’s dedicated IT team of five provides 24/7/365 services for 21 different departments, including public safety. The IT department consists of two on-campus data centers, with 200 full-time users and multiple applications. Like many town IT departments, providing seamless, efficient service to police, fire, and EMS services, and transparent access to information for all citizens has always been a priority for the Newington team. Read More
Solution	After careful consideration, the IT department elected to look for a new, hyperconverged infrastructure that would provide disruptive-free backup and easy scalability, all while saving space and reducing complexity in the IT environment. The team chose the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform for its integrated VMware management features, hyperconverged infrastructure with data efficiency and easy scalability. After a short, painless installation, the Newington IT team moved all of its production servers from the HP Server and LeftHand storage over to the new, hyperconverged OmniCubes within its data centers. In doing so, storage went from about 10TB used to 5.9 through inline deduplication and compression alone—a 40 percent automatic efficiency improvement. For DR, the team now does rapid backups with the OmniCubes in addition to a Unitrends, disk-based system already in place—a major step up from the previous LTO tape system. This method will be easily scalable in the future. Additionally, the Town of Newington expects to leverage OmniCube support for cost effective, secure, off-site backup to the cloud whereby they can treat the cloud as an extension of the data center to reduce cost and increase agility. 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

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Public Transportation Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

The Town of Newington’s IT department faced an infrastructure that was becoming increasingly complicated. As the IT environment continued to expand, more ports, connectivity, interconnects, and cabling meant that the team of five was fighting a constant uphill battle when trying to diagnose system issues. In addition to this, the Town of Newington’s host count was growing along with the VM app and storage growth. The team’s two data centers were quickly running out of space, and with nine out of 15 possible TB used up, it was only a matter of time before further scaling would be necessary. The town’s backup and DR capabilities had grown outdated and required an upgrade. For years, Newington had been using IBM TSM and a complex, manual LTO tape rotation process for backup and DR. However, upgrading this system would have entailed a complete restructure of the backup solution and reconfiguration of all backup jobs. The IT team was tasked with finding the best virtualized, automated platform that would offer disruption-free backup and DR with minimized upkeep.

About Customer

The Town of Newington, population of 30,000, is located just south of Hartford, Connecticut. The town’s dedicated IT team of five provides 24/7/365 services for 21 different departments, including public safety. The IT department consists of two on-campus data centers, with 200 full-time users and multiple applications. Like many town IT departments, providing seamless, efficient service to police, fire, and EMS services, and transparent access to information for all citizens has always been a priority for the Newington team.

Solution

After careful consideration, the IT department elected to look for a new, hyperconverged infrastructure that would provide disruptive-free backup and easy scalability, all while saving space and reducing complexity in the IT environment. The team chose the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform for its integrated VMware management features, hyperconverged infrastructure with data efficiency and easy scalability. After a short, painless installation, the Newington IT team moved all of its production servers from the HP Server and LeftHand storage over to the new, hyperconverged OmniCubes within its data centers. In doing so, storage went from about 10TB used to 5.9 through inline deduplication and compression alone—a 40 percent automatic efficiency improvement. For DR, the team now does rapid backups with the OmniCubes in addition to a Unitrends, disk-based system already in place—a major step up from the previous LTO tape system. This method will be easily scalable in the future. Additionally, the Town of Newington expects to leverage OmniCube support for cost effective, secure, off-site backup to the cloud whereby they can treat the cloud as an extension of the data center to reduce cost and increase agility.

Impact #1	Ease of use, simplified troubleshooting for Newington’s small IT team
Impact #2	A reduced data center footprint for energy savings
Impact #3	Ability to manage backup and DR through existing VMware setup

Impact #1

Ease of use, simplified troubleshooting for Newington’s small IT team

Impact #2

A reduced data center footprint for energy savings

Impact #3

Ability to manage backup and DR through existing VMware setup

Benefit #1	Storage went from about 10TB used to 5.9 through inline deduplication and compression alone—a 40 percent automatic efficiency improvement.
Benefit #2	Minimized data cabling—replaced over 36 data cables per data center with the 10GbE connections back to the switching gear.

Benefit #1

Storage went from about 10TB used to 5.9 through inline deduplication and compression alone—a 40 percent automatic efficiency improvement.

Benefit #2

Minimized data cabling—replaced over 36 data cables per data center with the 10GbE connections back to the switching gear.

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Town government simplifies IT with OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver mission-critical applications

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