A test environment is needed for algorithms and architectures that meets a common set of requirements for many testbeds (see "Testbed in Depth")GOAL:A test facility that can be configured into complex edge compute environments, in order to further the state-of-the-art in edge analytics and algorithms

Mitsubishi Electric, a leading manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment, was facing challenges in its software development processes for large-scale real-time systems at its Kamakura Works production hub. The software engineering department was tasked with developing software solutions for complex systems such as satellites and ground control centers. However, these solutions were becoming larger and more complex, and the development lead time was getting shorter. The department was working to refine and systematize its processes for developing various types of software solutions. They were also preparing for a further increase in the speed and scale of future software development. The department aimed to cope with the growing sophistication and speed of software development by promoting automation, flexibly meet the demands of the most complex pipeline projects, and realize a secure on-premises environment that was not connected to the Internet.

To have the most robust, secure, and effective IT architecture possible.To achieve the highly available IT infrastructure that Stevanato required, a rigorous networking architecture was combined with an equally strict server architecture in two connected data centers between Padua and Bologna. 

The Golden State Warriors were looking to create a next-generation stadium that would deliver unparalleled fan experiences. They wanted to build connectivity and intelligence into the facility, turning data into a business driver. The team had to rethink its approach to technology when they bid farewell to their former home in Oakland after 47 seasons. The pre-existing network at the Oakland Arena was a constant challenge, leading the team to envision their ideal state and what they wanted to provide. The construction of the Chase Center in San Francisco gave the team the opportunity to make their vision a reality and evolve what's possible for an event arena. However, the pandemic put a halt to all activities at the Chase Center, forcing the team to navigate a way forward that may be even better than what they originally imagined.

High Technology Industries (HTI) needed a modern and homogeneous IT infrastructure in order to standardise the systems of the group companies in the different countries. The infrastructure was both to meet the business needs of the next few years and to conform to the enhanced data privacy requirements. The various businesses had already come to the realisation that their rapid growth and geographical distances had created huge differences between the individual IT infrastructures in place at the miscellaneous IT locations of the group. This was presenting an obstacle to internal collaboration, since projects are delivered by the group across sites and a full range of winter sports technologies is covered.

A. K. Capital Services Ltd. operates in a highly competitive market environment where systems must be up and running at all times. With high volumes of transactions at nanosecond speed, there is no room for latency and downtime. Any disruption could damage A. K. Capital Services’ reputation and market standing, and cause huge financial loss to clients. With increased connectivity and digitalisation, high availability and system accessibility became the foundation for business growth and credibility. However, with expanding operations and volumes, it became increasingly difficult for A. K. Group to manage disparate systems while ensuring uptime, efficient system utilisation and keeping cost under control. The application environment was highly complex as some applications were deployed on legacy systems and could not be integrated, causing serious performance issues. The company wanted a simple solution to manage the complex environment by consolidating all applications on a single platform and improve manageability to deliver a uniform and consistent experience to users at all times. As a player in financial services, ensuring data availability and data protection was a serious challenge. At the same time, the regulatory environment became more stringent and compliance guidelines were mandatory. Given the financial implications of transactions, A. K. Group could not afford downtime, and business continuity and disaster recovery were critical considerations for A. K. Group.

ENAM Asset Management, one of India’s premier wealth management and financial advisory firms, was facing challenges with its outdated IT infrastructure. As the company expanded and onboarded new clients, its IT systems had not kept pace with its growth. Their legacy networks using Dell’s Blade Server Technology were inefficient and posed a real threat of equipment failure that could potentially impair IT services and restoring critical applications could take hours or even days. Moreover, the IT team relied on many, isolated backup and replication tools for data protection and recovery. Overnight system backups required users to log off from their systems, causing major disruptions and resulting in loss of productivity for four to five hours at a time. ENAM was looking to upgrade to a solution that would offer operational efficiency, expanded storage capacity, ensure superior performance, and put the organization on the fast track to lasting digital transformation.

St. John’s Riverside Hospital had been running their existing infrastructure environment for seven years, and the time had come for them to expand and update their technology. A multitude of issues came to a head, the most urgent being that their 40TB storage systems were quickly running out of physical space loads, restricting their ability to scale and grow. Their legacy servers were also oversubscribed to the point that failover was completely prohibited, leaving St. John’s Riverside Hospital in a compromised and unacceptable state if the system should ever crash. With so many mission-critical applications running in their virtualized environment, data protection and speedy data backup are essential to the well being of St. John’s Riverside and their patients. Using legacy backup software for their D2D backup as well as for an offsite location five miles away, St. John’s was seeing RPOs of eight to ten hours with a three-month retention and, depending on the data, RTOs could take five to ten minutes for files, with full servers taking up to 30 minutes. These backup times were unfavorable for St. John’s, who prides itself on continually improving efficiency and speed.

Nuh Cement, a global producer and supplier of cement, ready-mixed concrete, and building products, was facing challenges with its legacy IT systems. The company's IT infrastructure was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and expensive. The siloed IT infrastructure included legacy servers and stand-alone storage systems, all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on a variety of data backup and recovery tools for data protection. Disasters or hardware failures had the potential to disrupt critical IT services and business operations, with restoring applications potentially taking 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.

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, a Formula 1 team, is in a constant race against time, not just on the track but also off it. Each Formula 1 circuit is different, with its own challenges and characteristics and the car is customized for each race location. Between races, the clock is ticking to create new designs and adapt the car for the next circuit. An F1 car can go through some 30,000 changes throughout the season and from week-to-week, this can involve 1,000 design elements. The result is a constant evolution of change in the design process, all of which needs to be simulated, manufactured, and tested. With a typical year consisting of more than 20 races, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing needs a robust technology infrastructure in place to make the team agile, efficient, and business-like, both on and off the track.

KHD, a global leader in cement plant technology, equipment, and services, was facing challenges with its legacy IT infrastructure. The company's data growth rates were increasing, and the costs associated with managing this data were also on the rise. The complexity within the data center was growing, with the need to deploy numerous different deduplication, compression, and optimization appliances to keep up with data growth and the performance requirements of enterprise applications. The increasing capital costs for added storage, compute, various appliances, and software licensing were a concern. Additionally, operational expenses were mounting as administrators were spending countless hours on menial maintenance tasks instead of focusing on innovation to drive the business forward. In certain countries, where staff turnover rates are typically high, the lack of trained IT resources was impacting growth. KHD needed a new solution, based on a fundamentally new data architecture.

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.

Neil Medical Group was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. They had to manage multiple solutions and vendors, which was manageable but not ideal. The need for a capacity purchase or upgrade of their existing infrastructure led them to review their overall platform. This led them to consider HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

Synernet’s legacy IT implementation—a mix of HP servers and capacity-constrained Dell EqualLogic storage arrays—was too costly and complex to maintain and scale. Expanding capacity, introducing new applications or troubleshooting problems was a time consuming, error-prone process involving a number of distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. And to make matters worse the company was unable to achieve its disaster recovery objectives with its unidirectional data replication solution; once services failed over to the DR site, Synernet could not effectively revert back to the primary production site.

The IT team of a New England-based Credit Union had been managing slow, steady growth in their environment for several years. Until recently, they maintained a non-virtualized environment, with over 30 physical servers, each dedicated to a specific application workload. Driven by the need to improve their DR capabilities and the concern that they would soon outgrow the physical capacity of their two data centers, the IT team decided to pursue a “P-to-V” migration project, implementing VMware and deploying virtual machines for each of the existing physical servers. In planning this project, the team recognized the need for an infrastructure update that aligned with the flexibility and scalability that VMware enables. After a detailed analysis, the team chose to adopt Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) SimpliVity, HPE SimpliVity’s federated and hyperconverged infrastructure platform that delivers high-end data protection and management functionality, while enabling dramatic cost savings compared to traditional infrastructure.

Altamaha Bank and Trust, a Georgia financial institution with approximately $150M in assets, was facing challenges with its legacy IT infrastructure. The existing system, a mix of Dell and other servers with internal storage scattered across four branches, had become too costly, complex, and risky to maintain and scale. Expanding capacity or introducing new applications meant deploying additional physical servers—an inefficient and time-consuming prospect. Moreover, the bank was constrained by an ineffective data backup solution that relied on removable media. Hardware failures or application mishaps had the potential to disrupt business for hours or even days while systems were recovered.

Interland, a California-based real estate development and asset management company, was facing challenges with its aging Dell server and storage systems. The systems were nearing their end-of-life and were running out of capacity. The Dell EqualLogic storage arrays at the Interland facility in Davis, California, and the Jim Joseph Foundation office in San Francisco were nearly out of capacity. Furthermore, the IT team was unable to reliably replicate data across the two sites and had to rely on an inefficient cloud-based data backup service for disaster recovery. This was a risky proposition in an earthquake-prone area like Northern California. When Dell announced plans to discontinue support for the EqualLogic equipment, Blake Soiu, IT Director for Interland, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the reliability, performance, and economics of the company’s IT systems.

Oracle Red Bull Racing team is in a constant race against time to develop and optimize their cars for each of the 22 races in the Formula One season. The team has to make thousands of changes to the car's design between races, each of which needs to be simulated, manufactured, and tested. The team also has to work within new Formula One design regulations and established cost caps, making efficiency a top priority. Furthermore, changes in F1 rules limit the number of aerodynamics testing hours each team can run per week, making it crucial to optimize every second and achieve peak application performance.

Kingsway Hospitals, a new healthcare facility in Nagpur, Central India, needed to build its IT infrastructure from the ground up. The hospital required a robust and efficient Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) that could handle terabytes of patient data and medical imaging files. The systems needed to function independently and offer high-speed performance. The hospital also required a solution that could ensure zero downtime, enhanced data backup and disaster recovery, and maintain the highest levels of data security and privacy. The solution also needed to be flexible and scalable to accommodate the hospital's growth.

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, a UK-based Formula One racing team, was facing inefficiencies in its car design process due to the need for aerodynamics engineers to use two separate workstations, each running a different operating system (OS), for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. This resulted in a slow and cumbersome design process, with engineers having to manually port data from one workstation to another. Additionally, the input and outputs to CFD 3D modeling are very graphic intensive, requiring high-spec GPUs on the workstations.

Princeton Holdings Limited, a company specializing in insurance, risk management, and wealth management solutions, was facing a challenge of improving performance and reducing server sprawl while supporting future growth. The company wanted a secure and reliable infrastructure that could match its reputation for strength and stability. They were looking for a solution that could consolidate and run significantly more workloads, eliminate as many servers as possible, and provide disaster recovery and backup capabilities.

MLB Network was facing challenges with the management of multiple solutions and vendors, which was proving to be a significant burden. They were in need of a development environment for DIAMOND, their asset management system, and core services that could take advantage of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure tools. The company was looking for a solution that could help them consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and refresh their technology. They also needed a solution for their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration.

Abba Technologies, an IT services and solutions provider based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was facing several challenges with their legacy infrastructure. The company was dealing with long backup times, multiple complex management consoles, and their infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life. The company was running Exchange, SQL, and other customer-specific applications which were becoming increasingly difficult and slow due to their outdated infrastructure. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update their existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow them to avoid a complete renovation of their IT environment, or switch to a new technology that could address their goals of updating old equipment and simplifying their IT infrastructure.

High Cotton’s disjointed IT environment was becoming increasingly risky, and costly to maintain and scale. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment including HP servers, third-party storage systems, and they didn’t have any in-house data protection. Administering the fragmented environment was a manually intensive and error-prone undertaking involving a number of distinct management systems. Deploying new workloads—allocating compute and storage resources, instituting backup policies, performing restores—could take hours and weeks using the company’s legacy solutions. Even worse, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications, including VMware Horizon View VDI apps, could take hours or days using the incumbent data protection solutions and methods.

The Town of Newington was facing a challenge with the management of multiple solutions and vendors. Although it was manageable, it was not ideal. They were in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. This review led them to consider HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a potential solution to their challenges.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure. This led to an overall platform review. Prior to deploying HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure, the organization found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be a non-issue. However, they decided to move forward with the HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure for data center consolidation and infrastructure modernization.

Brigham Young University was facing significant challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The management burden was high and the university had a mandate to implement Disaster Recovery (DR) and improve backup/recovery. The existing infrastructure was not efficient and was causing delays in deploying new workloads.

Eubelius, a law firm based in Belgium, was facing challenges with its outdated IT infrastructure. The firm's legacy infrastructure and storage arrays were running out of capacity, and the organization was also constrained by an antiquated tape-based data protection solution. Data backup and recovery procedures were inefficient, consuming a lot of storage capacity and taking hours to complete. The firm was in the process of implementing a VMware Horizon VDI initiative and needed to refresh its aging IT infrastructure as part of this initiative.

GoodLife Fitness, the largest health club chain in Canada, was facing challenges with its outsourced IT implementation. The system was costly, inefficient, and lacked agility. The company was heavily dependent on its managed service provider, which charged high monthly fees and required a three-week lead time for any changes. As the company was relocating to a new corporate headquarters, the management decided to bring IT operations in-house to increase agility and reduce operational expenses.

Iterum was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure which led them to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. The company was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. Prior to deploying HPE SimpliVity, they found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be manageable, but not ideal.