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	World-Class School Modernises IT Infrastructure and Improves DR with SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

World-Class School Modernises IT Infrastructure and Improves DR with SimpliVity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Southbank International School, an international independent school for 3 to 18 year-olds in the heart of London, was facing challenges with its outdated IT server architecture. The school's aging IT infrastructure was becoming increasingly unreliable, costly, and slow. The school relied on a mix of legacy server and storage systems distributed across three campuses, serving approximately 1000 users. Many of the systems were over ten years old and simply could not meet the performance demands of contemporary applications. Administering the fragmented environment was a resource-intensive, time-consuming undertaking involving several distinct management systems. Deploying new applications—allocating compute and storage resources—took days. Even worse, hardware failures were frequently disrupting core classroom applications. The school relied on manual data backup and recovery processes. It took hours or days to restore services as disks were copied, transported across campus and swapped out. Read More
About Customer	Southbank International School is an international independent school for 3 to 18 year-olds located in the heart of London. The school serves approximately 1000 users across three campuses. The school's IT infrastructure was outdated and unreliable, with many of the systems being over ten years old. The school relied on a mix of legacy server and storage systems that were unable to meet the performance demands of contemporary applications. The administration of the fragmented environment was resource-intensive and time-consuming, involving several distinct management systems. The deployment of new applications took days, and hardware failures frequently disrupted core classroom applications. The school relied on manual data backup and recovery processes, which took hours or days to restore services. Read More
Solution	Southbank International School replaced its outdated IT server architecture with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution helps the school streamline IT operations, reduce TCO, and ensure high performance and availability for its administrative systems, classroom applications and virtual learning solutions. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is specifically designed 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. Southbank implemented a fully redundant configuration for ultimate availability and data protection. The school replaced an entire rack of distributed legacy equipment with two 2U SimpliVity OmniCube nodes in its primary data center. Applications and data are backed up locally for business continuity, and to a third OmniCube node locally on site for disaster recovery. 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

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Southbank International School, an international independent school for 3 to 18 year-olds in the heart of London, was facing challenges with its outdated IT server architecture. The school's aging IT infrastructure was becoming increasingly unreliable, costly, and slow. The school relied on a mix of legacy server and storage systems distributed across three campuses, serving approximately 1000 users. Many of the systems were over ten years old and simply could not meet the performance demands of contemporary applications. Administering the fragmented environment was a resource-intensive, time-consuming undertaking involving several distinct management systems. Deploying new applications—allocating compute and storage resources—took days. Even worse, hardware failures were frequently disrupting core classroom applications. The school relied on manual data backup and recovery processes. It took hours or days to restore services as disks were copied, transported across campus and swapped out.

About Customer

Southbank International School is an international independent school for 3 to 18 year-olds located in the heart of London. The school serves approximately 1000 users across three campuses. The school's IT infrastructure was outdated and unreliable, with many of the systems being over ten years old. The school relied on a mix of legacy server and storage systems that were unable to meet the performance demands of contemporary applications. The administration of the fragmented environment was resource-intensive and time-consuming, involving several distinct management systems. The deployment of new applications took days, and hardware failures frequently disrupted core classroom applications. The school relied on manual data backup and recovery processes, which took hours or days to restore services.

Solution

Southbank International School replaced its outdated IT server architecture with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution helps the school streamline IT operations, reduce TCO, and ensure high performance and availability for its administrative systems, classroom applications and virtual learning solutions. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is specifically designed 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. Southbank implemented a fully redundant configuration for ultimate availability and data protection. The school replaced an entire rack of distributed legacy equipment with two 2U SimpliVity OmniCube nodes in its primary data center. Applications and data are backed up locally for business continuity, and to a third OmniCube node locally on site for disaster recovery.

Impact #1	Efficient data protection and disaster recovery for classroom and administrative applications
Impact #2	Application performance increased by 75%
Impact #3	Rapid data protection; backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days

Impact #1

Efficient data protection and disaster recovery for classroom and administrative applications

Impact #2

Application performance increased by 75%

Impact #3

Rapid data protection; backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days

Benefit #1	Application performance increased by 75%
Benefit #2	Backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days
Benefit #3	New applications deployed in hours instead of weeks

Benefit #1

Application performance increased by 75%

Benefit #2

Backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days

Benefit #3

New applications deployed in hours instead of weeks

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World-Class School Modernises IT Infrastructure and Improves DR with SimpliVity

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