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Document Outsourcer Consolidates IT Infrastructure and Improves DR with SimpliVity

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Customer Company Size
SME
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • SimpliVity OmniCube CN-3000
Tech Stack
  • VMware View 5.3 VDI
  • GMC Inspire Document Creation
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008R2
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Windows IIS Web Servers
  • SolarWinds
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Professional Service
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
  • Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
  • Infrastructure Inspection
  • Remote Asset Management
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
High Cotton is a leading document outsourcing company that was relying on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. The company's IT environment was disjointed and was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods.
The Challenge
High Cotton’s disjointed IT environment was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods.
The Solution
High Cotton replaced its outdated multivendor IT environment with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity solution helps the company simplify operations, reduce TCO, and ensure high performance and availability for its business-critical applications and VMware virtual desktop infrastructure. 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. The solution delivers the best of both worlds: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities including data efficiency, performance, data protection and global unified management.
Operational Impact
  • Efficient data protection and disaster recovery for critical applications including VMware View VDI
  • Rapid data protection; backups/restores completed in seconds compared to hours or days
  • Lower TCO; Equipment racks consolidated into three 2U units and one 2U unit for DR
  • Improved service agility; new apps deployed in hours instead of weeks and file restores in 60 seconds
  • Lower storage costs; 219:1 data efficiency
Quantitative Benefit
  • Reduced storage costs; 219:1 data efficiency
  • Full data protection and DR for 60 VMs including dozens of Task Worker virtual desktops
  • Backups and restores in seconds compared to hours or days including 4TB File Server
  • Ability to satisfy weekly file restore request in minutes compared to 4 hours or more
  • Reduced TCO with complete DR-ina-box solution

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