Canada’s Largest Fitness Club Chain Improves IT Agility and Slashes OPEX with SimpliVity
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公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- Canada
产品
- SimpliVity OmniStack Integrated Solution with Lenovo System x
技术栈
- MS SQL Server
- MS Active Directory
- VMware vCenter
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
适用行业
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
关于客户
GoodLife Fitness is the largest health club chain in Canada. The company was relying on a remotely hosted and managed data center for its IT operations. However, this outsourced IT implementation was proving to be costly and inefficient. The company was at the mercy of its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and imposed a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was planning to relocate to a new corporate headquarters, it decided to bring its IT operations in-house.
挑战
GoodLife Fitness, the largest health club chain in Canada, was facing challenges with its outsourced IT implementation. The system was costly, inefficient, and lacked agility. The company was heavily dependent on its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and required a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was relocating to a new corporate headquarters, the management decided to bring IT operations in-house to increase agility and reduce operational expenses.
解决方案
After evaluating several options, including traditional compute and storage solutions from IBM and Dell, GoodLife Fitness chose SimpliVity's OmniStack Integrated Solution with Lenovo System x for its new data center. The SimpliVity solution provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources that delivers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. GoodLife deployed two SimpliVity nodes in its new data center in London, Ontario. A redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of equipment failures, while an additional SimpliVity node in a remote colocation facility provides offsite disaster recovery.
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