Global Manufacturer Chooses SimpliVity for IT Refresh, App Delivery improvement and Disaster Recovery
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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Turkey
Product
- OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure
Tech Stack
- SAP
- VMware vCenter
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Cement
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Infrastructure Inspection
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Nuh Cement (Nuh Çimento) is a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products. The Turkey-based company operates the highest capacity cement production facility in all of Europe. Nuh recently replaced its legacy IT systems with Simplivity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure. The next-generation distributed data center reduces total cost of ownership, streamlines operations, and ensures efficient and reliable data protection for the company’s business-critical applications.
The Challenge
Nuh Cement, a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems. The systems were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and expensive. The manufacturer’s siloed IT infrastructure included legacy servers and stand-alone storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The company’s IT department relied on a variety of data backup and recovery tools for data protection. Disasters or hardware failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with the performance, reliability, and economics of its aging information systems, Nuh’s IT team launched a business transformation program to upgrade the company’s IT infrastructure.
The Solution
After a thorough investigation process involving a number of vendors including Dell, HP, and IBM, Nuh selected SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure systems for its next-generation data center. The SimpliVity 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. Nuh implemented a 4+2 OmniCube federation configuration for ultimate data protection. The manufacturer replaced four racks of legacy equipment with four clustered 2U OmniCube CN-3000 systems in its primary data center. They also deployed two OmniCube CN-3000 systems in a remote data center for disaster recovery. The IT group centrally manages the distributed configuration using VMware vCenter.
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