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OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS Accelerates IT Modernization, Data Migration and DevOps

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Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • SimpliVity OmniStack hyperconverged infrastructure solution
  • Cisco UCS C240 M4 servers
Tech Stack
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft IIS and .Net
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Digital Expertise
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
Use Cases
  • Infrastructure Inspection
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
Marketing Innovators International, a leader in people performance management solutions, replaced its legacy HP server and storage systems with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. The SimpliVity OmniStack solution with Cisco UCS helps the firm reduce TCO, improve IT agility and ensure high performance and availability for the company’s business-critical applications and data.
The Challenge
Marketing Innovators’ aging IT systems–HP servers and SAN arrays supporting a variety of business applications–were becoming increasingly costly and inefficient to operate, impairing service agility and business innovation. Deploying new workloads–allocating compute and storage resources, configuring data protection policies–took days using the company’s legacy storage solutions and data backup and replication tools. Shane Ladd, Sr. System Administrator for Marketing Innovators, initiated a data center modernization program to improve the scalability, performance and economics of the company’s IT infrastructure. After an extensive evaluation process involving a number of vendors including Nutanix®, Nimble Storage, Scale Computing and Maxta®, Ladd selected SimpliVity OmniStack Solution with Cisco UCS for its next-generation data center architecture.
The Solution
SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution is designed from the ground up 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 VM mobility, Data Efficiency, Performance and Global Unified Management. With their transformation project Marketing Innovators replaced seven racks of legacy HP equipment with four 2U OmniStack with Cisco UCS C240 M4 nodes in half a rack. The SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure solution with built-in VM mobility and data protection slashes TCO by reducing space, power and cooling requirements and simplifying ongoing administration.
Operational Impact
  • The IT team manages the entire next-generation data center from a single, familiar VMware vCenter vSphere console.
  • SimpliVity’s VM-centric administration improves IT agility and frees up staff to focus on business innovation.
  • With OmniStack, the company can clone and move VMs and deploy new workloads in minutes or hours, compared to days with their previous solutions.
  • The process of cloning VMs used to be an overnight ordeal, but with the SimpliVity Move, cloning operations are completed within minutes.
  • This enables Marketing Innovators’ developers with a much simpler and stress-free experience.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Reduced TCO; 14X reduced footprint; seven equipment racks consolidated into four 2U units
  • Rapid data migration; VMs moved over to new data center in minutes
  • Increased application performance: up to 75% improvement
  • Lower storage costs; 11.6:1 data efficiency

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