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Multinational Retailer Simplifies Operations and Improves Data Protection with SimpliVity

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • Asia
Country
  • Singapore
Product
  • SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure
Tech Stack
  • VMware vCenter
  • POS systems
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Retail
Applicable Functions
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Business Operation
Use Cases
  • Retail Store Automation
  • Inventory Management
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Sasa Singapore is one of the leading cosmetics retailing groups in Asia. The company offers more than 400 brands, covering 10,000 skin care, fragrance, make-up, hair care and body care products and health supplements including own-brands and exclusive products. Sasa prospers on its successful and proven “one-stop cosmetic specialty store” concept which aims to provide customers with the widest range of high quality products at the most competitive value.
The Challenge
Sasa Singapore, a leading cosmetics retailing group in Asia, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems which were nearing the end of their useful life. The company was continuously looking for innovative ways to contain costs and streamline operations. The Commercial Manager for Sasa, John Seah, decided the time was right to consolidate and simplify the corporate data center. The company evaluated a number of options including Nutanix, and eventually selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for the retailer’s next-generation IT implementation.
The Solution
SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources that delivers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure—including hypervisor, compute, storage, and data protection functions—in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. Two 2U SimpliVity nodes ensure high performance and reliability for the retailer’s core IT services and business applications including revenue-critical POS systems. SimpliVity’s VM-centric management interface simplifies operations and accelerates IT service agility. IT generalists can perform routine operations directly from VMware vCenter, freeing up Sasa IT specialists to focus on more strategic tasks.
Operational Impact
  • Fast and efficient data protection for all applications and services
  • Backups and restores completed in minutes compared to hours
  • Simplified operations; IT staff freed up for innovation
  • High availability; redundant configuration has delivered 100% uptime since deployment
  • Massive storage capacity savings; 239TB of logical data consumes only 1.9TB of disk space
Quantitative Benefit
  • 100% uptime since deployment
  • 239TB of logical data consumes only 1.9TB of disk space

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