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Eubelius, a law firm based in Belgium, was facing challenges with its outdated IT infrastructure.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.

Omni Partners was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. They found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be a non-issue. However, they were looking for a solution that could help them consolidate their data center and modernize their infrastructure. They were running various types of applications including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and VDI.

Practimed, a Belgian healthcare provider, was facing challenges with its legacy IT environment which was a mix of standalone servers and storage arrays. The existing system had become too costly and risky to maintain and scale. Expanding capacity meant deploying additional servers, storage arrays and SAN switches—an expensive and time-consuming proposition. Moreover, the healthcare provider was unable to meet its RPO/RTO goals using its legacy data protection solution. They had strict legal requirements for securing and archiving patient records, plus they needed to ensure critical data is always available for their medical teams. Therefore, finding a reliable disaster recovery solution had become one of their priorities.

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 Special District Risk Management Authority (SDRMA) was facing a storage capacity issue. They had been using Nutanix technology, but ran out of storage and could only expand by adding new nodes, which was frustrating to the IT team. The storage utilization challenge had stumped SDRMA until they found SimpliVity. After vetting the platform’s disaster recovery, backup, and deduplication features, SDRMA and iFish Group chose SimpliVity’s hyperconvergence solution.

Red Bull Racing, a competitive force in Formula One racing, relies heavily on IT for everything from business processes to vehicle design to onsite track support on race days. With proprietary, F1-specific applications generating significant amounts of data, the team needed a solution for its growing storage needs for the virtualized estate. The team's legacy infrastructure was slowing down performance. A mix of traditional virtualized servers plus virtual desktop infrastructure resulted in roughly 500 VMs spread across disparate hardware, creating a disjointed and heterogeneous environment. With 50 TB of data, infrastructure sprawl was becoming a costly liability, and software engineers using virtual desktops were noticing performance lags.

Manufacture Belge de Chocolats (MBC), a Belgian chocolate manufacturer, was part of the corporate Godiva family until 2019 when Godiva sold its Brussels operations. This led to MBC becoming a standalone company, still manufacturing chocolates for Godiva but also creating its own brand - Rosalie's. The company aims to be an agile manufacturer that can meet production demands for all types of customers, including smaller batch orders. However, following the divestiture, MBC had to replicate the technical and administrative services that had been centralized under Godiva in the US. This included security, product specification management, and an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. To meet its new manufacturing goals, MBC needed to digitalize its factory and automate its processes.

University College of the North (UCN) is committed to the development of its region, northern Manitoba, where approximately 70% of its student population is indigenous. The region is widely dispersed and remote, with nine of UCN's 12 regional training centers located in First Nations communities. The challenge was to expand access to IT training and career options for indigenous women in these communities, without requiring them to leave their social supports and face culture shock by moving over 600 km away to Winnipeg. The Information Technology Readiness North (InTeRN) project was created to meet this challenge, but it needed to be structured in a way that would be successful in an indigenous community, incorporating a holistic perspective and mentorship.

Riml, a family-run tourism business in Tyrol, Austria, needed to modernize its IT infrastructure to meet the increasing demands of its guests. The company's existing IT infrastructure was outdated and insufficient to handle the growing needs of the business, which includes hotels, guest houses, mountain cabins, restaurants, and sports shops. The company required a high-performance IT platform that could ensure maximum availability for all of its services and also accommodate future requirements. The new IT infrastructure needed to be agile, compact, highly available, and capable of providing state-of-the-art enterprise technologies for SMEs.

S&B India's existing setup had served them well until now. As their workload grew, they were looking to refresh their IT infrastructure to be scalable for at least the next five years. Hence, they knew hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) was the answer. Given the scale, complexities, and criticality of the engineering and design services that S&B India offers to crucial capital goods, basic materials, and energy sectors, data integrity and high availability are paramount for the organization. Until recently S&B India ran on a conventional setup of HPE servers with SAN storage and several applications including CAD/CAM and Oracle database running on VMware® clusters. As the organizational workload continued to rapidly grow, S&B India was overwhelmed with IT performance issues. Given the resource requirement creeping up on S&B India's IT infrastructure and network, its far-site, on-premises disaster recovery setup wasn't keeping up with the scale. Space constraints to continuously add infrastructure and lack of centralized server control added to the woes.

Medico, a pioneer in the development of electronic health records in Indonesia, needed a strong data center solution to launch a private cloud-based Hospital Information System (HIS) for its customer, Mayapada Healthcare Group. The Group operates three hospitals and plans to scale their operations by adding several new hospitals in the near future. Medico needed a platform for centralized data synchronization to support at least seven hospitals within the next two years, and it needed to be seamless. The team auditioned technology from all the major vendors, looking for that perfect combination of value, performance, and scalability.

The Dallas Cowboys Merchandising division, led by COO Bill Priakos, was in need of a more comprehensive view of their data to increase profitability. Microsoft was chosen as the platform for this upgrade, along with several other sales, logistics, and ecommerce applications. The Cowboys anticipated that this new information architecture would provide the necessary analytics and reporting. However, this was not the case, leading to a search for a robust dashboarding, analytics, and reporting tool to fill this gap.

FINN.no, Norway's largest online marketplace, was struggling with a fragmented assortment of business intelligence (BI) tools, including spreadsheets. These tools provided a narrow view of intelligence into advertising sales, unique users, and other metrics, but couldn't provide a holistic view of the business. Reporting was primarily an IT department affair: business users would request reports and wait sometimes days for the results to arrive. The company needed a solution that would allow for ad hoc reports, standard, drill-through reporting on KPIs, and self-service reporting for their customers.