BICS, a medium-sized enterprise in the telecommunications services industry, was facing challenges due to the centralization of management for remote/branch office infrastructure. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was not an issue for them. However, they were in need of a solution that could modernize their infrastructure, provide a technology refresh, and support their remote/branch offices, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and production applications.

Blundstone’s aging IT systems were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky and costly. The retailer’s legacy IT infrastructure included virtualized legacy servers with iSCSI storage systems, running a variety of business applications. The IT team relied on several distinct backup and replication tools including Symantec Backup Exec and Veeam for data protection and recovery. Deploying new workloads–allocating compute and storage resources, configuring data protection policies–could take weeks using the company’s legacy tools. Worse still, disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair IT services and disrupt business; restoring applications could take hours or even days using the disjointed data protection solutions.

Burgmann Anglican’s multivendor IT environment had become too costly and cumbersome to maintain and scale. The school’s legacy IT infrastructure included Dell® PowerEdge rack servers, Dell EqualLogic and QNAP NAS devices, and Veeam and IBM® Tivoli® data backup and recovery solutions. Administering the fragmented environment was a complex undertaking involving multiple devices and management interfaces. The school often had to call in outside IT consultants to assist with routine system planning, administration and maintenance. Joel Anderson, Head of Operations for Burgmann Anglican, initiated a data center modernization program to simplify operations and improve the economics and performance of the school’s IT systems.

Capitol Anesthesiology Association was facing challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The management was manageable but not ideal. They were looking for a solution to implement Disaster Recovery (DR) and improve backup/recovery. The company decided to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to address these challenges.

Dieseko Corporation, a Netherlands-based company specializing in the development and manufacturing of hydraulic vibratory equipment, was facing challenges with its existing data center. The company was growing rapidly, and the existing data center was unable to keep up with the increasing amount of data being produced. The existing system was three years old, and the data center couldn't expand to support the amount of data being produced. They were quickly running out of storage. The previous system employed Nimble for storage, along with SSD memory to improve performance. Other pieces of Dieseko’s infrastructure, like network switches, also needed an upgrade. The company needed a solution that would not only address these issues but also simplify the data center and provide an easy-to-install system.

The financial services company was dealing with a fractured multivendor IT environment scattered across six, non-optimized data centers due to a series of corporate acquisitions. The disjointed collection of hundreds of independent compute, storage SAN, and data protection platforms was far too costly and complex to maintain and scale. The data centers were located in sites with high energy costs. Expanding capacity meant deploying and configuring separate server and storage platforms—an expensive and drawn-out proposition. Introducing or upgrading applications, configuring backup policies, and troubleshooting and resolving problems was a time consuming, resource-intensive process involving numerous low-level administrative interfaces. The company was unable to meet its Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives with its inefficient legacy data protection solutions.

The division of a Global 100 Technology Firm’s IT department was facing a problem where its legacy IT infrastructure was preventing the delivery of the level of services that its internal customers expected. The IT team was managing three data centers that were already at 100 percent capacity, and was looking for ways to provide further value and innovation for its internal customers—all the while reducing the cost and complexity of its infrastructure. The primary function of the internal IT operations staff is to support global development—a team comprised of 150 support and product development engineers spread across multiple data centers. The IT operations staff is responsible for all of the applications implemented to support the team, including development tools, build tools and systems, bug tracking applications, and support applications; this includes Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), an application in the nascent stages of evaluation for productivity and efficiency for the global workers, many of which were located as far as India. Previous evaluations conducted by the team were not met with success as they did not provide the level of performance to the remote workers that they expected.

Merlin Entertainments, a large entertainment company, was facing challenges with its fragmented IT infrastructure. The company relied on a mix of independent server, storage, and data protection solutions at its remote sites. Equipment configurations and vendors varied widely from property to property, making administration and support a complicated and time-consuming process. The company initiated a modernization program to simplify operations and improve the economics, performance, and reliability of the company’s distributed IT environment.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue was facing challenges with its aging IT environment, which was a mix of Cisco servers and EMC storage arrays. The legacy system had become too expensive and complex to administer and expand. Moreover, the Department was unable to meet its Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) goals using its legacy EMC Avamar backup and recovery solution. The Department was increasingly dissatisfied with EMC’s products and customer support, leading Network Services Manager Patrick Welch to decide that the time was right for a technology refresh.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was proving to be a significant burden. The department was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. This review led them to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. The department was looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and provide a solution for their remote/branch office. They also needed a solution for their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration.

Namibia Institute of Pathology decided it was time to bring all of their IT operations in-house to gain better management and control. They had been using physical servers, with storage associated to each, and relying on tape backups. NIP didn’t have any disaster recovery capabilities. They did have multiple sites and the need for modernization, consolidation, data protection, high availability, and of course, disaster recovery. The main criteria for NIP’s team was simplified IT. They needed migration from outsourced to in-house IT that could be done without additional skills and resources that the organization didn’t have. They didn’t have the budget that would be needed to get those skills through outside specialists and consultants, but they had to find a solution that could accomplish their goals.

Record Automatische Deuren, a leading manufacturer of automatic door systems, was facing challenges due to a fragmented multivendor IT environment resulting from a corporate acquisition. The combined IT implementation—with multiple vendors, technology platforms and administrative interfaces—was far too complex and costly. In addition, the company’s legacy data protection solutions were inherently inefficient. It took hours to backup or recover critical applications using the Oracle Secure Backup or Symantec Backup Exec solutions, exposing the manufacturer to excessive data loss and prolonged application downtime.

Romac Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry, was facing challenges with its legacy multivendor IT environment. The existing infrastructure, a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC, had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain and scale. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. Russell Turley, IT Manager for Romac, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the performance and reliability of the company’s IT systems.

Simac, a Belgian IT solutions integrator and services provider, was facing challenges with its legacy data center—a mix of HP servers and NetApp storage systems—which had become too costly and complex to manage and scale. Provisioning customers and troubleshooting problems was a time-consuming, resource-intensive proposition involving many distinct, low-level administrative interfaces. Simac planned to move its IT operations to a colocation facility to support its growing business. Deciding the time was right for a technology refresh, Steven De Prins, Cross Domain Architect for Simac, selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the platform for the company’s next-generation IT architecture.

Somerset College, an educational institution in Australia, was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was manageable, but not ideal. This led to a capacity purchase and upgrade of their existing infrastructure, which in turn led to an overall platform review. The college decided to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to address these challenges.

Southbank International School, an international independent school for 3 to 18 year-olds in the heart of London, was facing challenges with its outdated IT server architecture. The school's aging IT infrastructure was becoming increasingly unreliable, costly, and slow. The school relied on a mix of legacy server and storage systems distributed across three campuses, serving approximately 1000 users. Many of the systems were over ten years old and simply could not meet the performance demands of contemporary applications. Administering the fragmented environment was a resource-intensive, time-consuming undertaking involving several distinct management systems. Deploying new applications—allocating compute and storage resources—took days. Even worse, hardware failures were frequently disrupting core classroom applications. The school relied on manual data backup and recovery processes. It took hours or days to restore services as disks were copied, transported across campus and swapped out.

Surrey Place Centre was facing significant challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The organization was also under a mandate to implement disaster recovery and improve backup/recovery. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was found to be a significant burden, leading to the need for a more streamlined and efficient solution.

Redpagos, a regional fintech company in Uruguay, was facing growing business requirements that prompted the need for new infrastructure. The company's vision was to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty, and to grow market share by creating compelling new benefits for franchisees. However, the existing infrastructure was not sufficient to support the increasing transaction volumes and protect the company from outages, malware, and natural disasters. The company's IT infrastructure could only accommodate a tenth of its total workforce with virtual desktops, which was not enough capacity to support a work-from-home model. Furthermore, the company's databases house sensitive customer information, and the legacy cloud environment was inadequate due to potential regulatory concerns and customer data privacy concerns.

Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) operates lottery and gaming activities on behalf of several provinces and territories in Canada. The non-profit organization's mission is to deliver increased revenue back to governments, which requires efficient budget planning and insights to understand players and optimize sales. However, WCLC's legacy stack was not ideal for gaming operations. Infrastructure had grown along with business needs through siloed purchases, leading to lifecycle management issues, where parts of the environment were off support or nearly there. To meet growing customer expectations, the organization needed to increase its systems' performance.

TSPL, a coal-based thermal power plant located in Banawala village in Mansa district of Punjab, India, was facing issues with its traditional client-server environment. The applications were being served on multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) connections from across thousands of kilometers away at Vedanta's central data center at Jharsuguda, one of the most industrially developed districts in the state of Odisha, India. Due to the remote location and connectivity issues, TSPL users often faced application latency or downtimes resulting in loss of productivity. Occasional maintenance issues of local desktop infrastructure added to the problems. TSPL decided to revamp its IT ecosystem to address the issues of IT availability and manageability.

Häagen-Dazs Japan, a leading company of premium ice cream, was facing various challenges with their IT infrastructure. The biggest issue was a lack of performance in their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. They had introduced VDI company-wide in 2013 to provide an environment where employees could work as if they were in the office anytime, anywhere. However, while operating in their initial VDI environment, they faced various challenges. The biggest one was a lack of performance. In 2018, the company decided not to renew the VDI platform due to challenges such as video data streaming issues. Shortly thereafter, Häagen-Dazs launched a new VDI infrastructure with HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers, VMware vSANTM, and virtual GPUs. However, this did not solve all their issues. They still faced problems with their file server's capacity approaching its limit and the backup process taking a very long time.

The City of Encinitas manages public services for its residents, ensuring the secure, uninterrupted availability of a wide range of services and operations. The city's IT department functions as a central repository that powers several departments, leveraging centralized technological support and resources. However, the city needed to protect its vital systems and citizens' sensitive information from cyberattacks. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for a more robust IT infrastructure that could support an increasingly connected city and a remote workforce. The city needed a solution that could ensure the secure and reliable delivery of critical public services while enabling a hybrid workforce.

ROKiT Venturi Racing, a Formula E racing team, is committed to promoting a carbon-free future and showcasing the potential of sustainable mobility. However, the team faces significant IT challenges in processing, analyzing, and understanding data quickly. These factors have significant implications on their performance on the racetrack and in R&D at their factory. The team needs to ensure that they are at the cutting edge on the IT side to compete against much larger teams backed by big names in the automotive industry. From the factory to the trackside, the team needs to enhance data access, team communication, productivity, and agility.

Noyfil, a company specializing in the production of continuous polyester yarn, was looking to overhaul its application support infrastructure to enhance the management of its special yarn production process. The company was keen to break away from the typical approach in the manufacturing sector, where there is a tendency to adopt the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. The rationale for this attitude is the level of investment—which can run into the millions—that is required when upgrading production facilities, which have a much longer service life than IT infrastructures, which need to be replaced before they become obsolete. However, with relatively moderate investments, it is possible to achieve a quantum leap in performance and ease of management.

Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, recognized the need to help companies modernize and deploy their applications in a hybrid, multicloud world. The company sought to leverage its technology in more than 20,000 of the world's data centers to manage any app at any location for their hybrid multicloud environments. However, achieving this required a strategic partnership that could deliver solutions to accelerate customers’ digital transformation and business outcomes. Five years ago, Nutanix engineers began porting their software onto HPE ProLiant DL servers to enable integrated hybrid cloud solutions. The initial relationship has now evolved into a true strategic alliance, with HPE and Nutanix expanding their relationship to offer customers an extensive product portfolio.

The need for remote working solutions has grown due to COVID-19. ComputerVault, a company that offers an easy-to-use, virtual desktop with built-in cybersecurity, sought to help enterprises enable their employees to work remotely. However, they needed a tier-one hardware supplier to host their Hyper-converged Infrastructure enterprise software. They also needed to ensure that their solution could exceed all performance and uptime benchmarks, and mitigate cybersecurity threats to company data and networks. Furthermore, they wanted to enable deployment at the customer site or colocation facility.

Unichem Laboratories Ltd., a world-leader in the production of generic drugs, aims to lower the cost and widen the availability of life-saving treatments. The company wants to grow its existing business in North America and Europe while capitalizing on surging demand for pharma in emerging markets. It needs to do so in a way that is connected, collaborative, and efficient. Its strategy spans two fronts: the production of raw materials (APIs) for other manufacturers and the approval of new, generic drugs (ANDAs). The goal is to shorten the gap between discovery, approval, and production. The faster it can get innovation to market, the more lives will be saved or improved.

Fino Payments Bank, a pioneer in the financial inclusion space in India, faces the challenge of operating at scale with a relentless focus on operational efficiency. Payments banks differ from retail banks in that they can't offer credit or loan services, removing a vital revenue stream. The bank's success is built on smart, efficient IT infrastructure management and a digitally enabled financial services distribution platform spread across the country. The bank needed to protect profit margins by enabling high-throughput, business-critical applications, and strengthening data management.

Federation University Australia, a leading regional university, was determined to get itself on a stronger IT footing. It wanted to accommodate new applications and new environments, and it wanted to do so quickly and efficiently. In a data-heavy world, it wanted to give itself the headroom to scale up. The previous approach to IT infrastructure was no longer fit for purpose. With hardware coming to end of life, and capacity needing to be addressed, there was an opportunity to rethink their approach.

Staples Solutions, a leading provider of office products and services to businesses in Europe, was facing challenges with its data systems. The company had six outsourced data centers spread across Europe, all using different solutions, making them difficult and costly to manage. The company wanted to make its data systems more flexible, modern, and cost-effective. To achieve this, the company decided to centralize and standardize its IT infrastructure at its data centers and branch offices. The company decided to centralize its data centers, reducing them to two and moving these on-premises. It also wanted to upgrade its infrastructure at its branch offices to accelerate the performance of its applications.