iON Solutions Adopts SimpliVity’s OmniCube to Improve Backup and DR Capabilities
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Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- OmniCube
Tech Stack
- VMware vCenter
- Veeam Backup and Replication
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
iON Solutions is a managed hosting, managed IT, virtualization services, and technology products provider. The company provides services to customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries nationwide from its headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida. The company prides itself in 'working smarter' by leveraging a state-of-the-art infrastructure to bring affordable technologies and resources to its customers. iON Solutions' customers rely on the company to provide critical IT services, so availability, flexibility, and data protection are paramount in its IT infrastructure. The company pledges to minimize risk, drive cost savings, improve security, and to maximize efficiency for greener computing in commercial organizations and in government.
The Challenge
iON Solutions, a managed service provider, was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure. The company's infrastructure included eight legacy servers and a Dell EqualLogic SAN, along with two backup SANs running Veeam Backup and Replication. The main driver for the project was infrastructure modernization, but the company also needed to improve its backup and disaster recovery capabilities. The company's customers rely on it to provide critical IT services, so availability, flexibility, and data protection are paramount in its IT infrastructure. The company pledges to minimize risk, drive cost savings, improve security, and to maximize efficiency for greener computing in commercial organizations and in government. Therefore, when it came time for a server refresh, President Derek Fowler decided to cast a wider net and consider new technologies for the company's aging infrastructure.
The Solution
iON Solutions decided to purchase OmniCube, SimpliVity's federated and hyper-converged infrastructure platform based on its 'datacenter-in-a-box' approach along with its radically simplified and impactful backup and disaster recovery attributes. With OmniCube, ION is taking advantage of critical functionality that is not available with any other 'hyperconverged' infrastructure offering. iON and its clients are now benefiting from OmniCube's built-in cross-site data protection and disaster recovery capabilities that are VM-centric, policy-based, and automated. Fowler said that since implementing OmniCube, iON Solutions has been able to eliminate multiple legacy servers, along with all of the SAN infrastructure for backup data. With OmniCube, managed completely from within the familiar VMware vCenter GUI, administration is far more streamlined and simple because the company's administrator no longer has to use multiple interfaces to manage all the disparate products in his old infrastructure.
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