Syntrophos Optimizes Data Center with OmniCube
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Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- Europe
Country
- Netherlands
Product
- OmniCube
Tech Stack
- VMware vCenter
- Oracle 11g
- Microsoft SQL Server
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Syntrophos is a Shared Service Center founded by four cities in the Netherlands. It provides high-quality ICT, GEO-information, and consulting services to over 120,000 citizens, as well as seven smaller governmental agencies. The company employs over 1400 staff and has a dedicated IT team of eleven focused on running and maintaining its mission-critical applications. These applications include Oracle 11g; Microsoft SQL Server, DFS, and IIS; Horizon Workspace; CheckPoint Firewall; and Apache Webserver. The company prioritizes continual evolution, responsiveness, and outstanding performance for its customers.
The Challenge
Syntrophos, a Shared Service Center founded by four cities in the Netherlands, provides high quality ICT, GEO-information, and consulting services to over 120,000 citizens, as well as seven smaller governmental agencies. The company employs over 1400 staff and has a dedicated IT team of eleven focused on running and maintaining its mission-critical applications. With applications such as Oracle 11g; Microsoft SQL Server, DFS, and IIS; Horizon Workspace; CheckPoint Firewall; and Apache Webserver in its physical data centers, end user access to these critical services is a key priority. However, with plans to migrate all virtual machines and consolidate the four cities’ data centers by early 2015, Syntrophos faced major consolidation challenges and needed a solution that could virtualize and migrate the entire IT environment while supporting its Tier-1 applications.
The Solution
Syntrophos implemented NetApp in two of its larger cities, and logically looked to NetApp’s FlexPod converged infrastructure as a solution. The company decided, however, that NetApp came with too many different consoles and management interfaces, which did not align with its initiatives to simplify the IT environment. Syntrophos then looked at Nutanix and Nimble, but those fell short of all the required capabilities it was seeking. Syntrophos sought an agile, flexible, highperforming, scalable, affordable, and simple product— nearly impossible standards until, through a partner, it was introduced to SimpliVity’s OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure. Syntrophos requested a live demo and could not believe what it saw.
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