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 City of Mesquite was facing a challenge with the management of multiple solutions and vendors. Although it was manageable, it was not ideal. The city was in the process of a capacity purchase and upgrade of existing infrastructure, which led to an overall platform review. This situation prompted the city to consider HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a solution to their challenges.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a top-ranked national engineering and technical university, faced an information technology challenge of rolling out a set of new applications based on requests from the university's broad community of faculty, staff, and students. The university's IT Hosting team was looking to create 'Infrastructure as a Service' for the wide set of application requests coming from the student body, faculty, and staff at WPI. Critical requirements like 'always on' availability, agile deployment models, and ease of use and maintainability were foundational requirements to the IT team. The existing infrastructure was running on complex, expensive racks of legacy servers with networked storage provided by a Dell SAN, but the configuration was becoming expensive and difficult to scale and maintain, making it challenging to meet the new application demands. This new application initiative was of concern to the IT team because of the time it would take to expand and maintain the legacy systems, which lacked easy, horizontal scalability, integrated data efficiency, automation, and unified management. They foresaw wasted operations time managing the legacy systems that could be spent more productively on other, higher value IT initiatives.

Dairylea's aging infrastructure consisted of three HP EVA storage arrays for their VMware environment, running over 100 applications critical to Dairylea's business units. While the production environment was stable and meeting the requirements, backup and disaster recovery had been a significant challenge for many years. Continued weekly backup failures and the recognition that recovery from a disaster could take over 48 hours compelled the IT team to seek a replacement to their overall backup and DR approach. Jeremy Wheeler, Dairylea's Innovation Architect, and his team spent months looking for a cost-effective solution that would allow the company to better protect critical data and deliver RPOS of less than 24 hours and RTOs of less than 4 hours in the event of a significant outage or disaster in the primary environment. Given a limited staff, Dairylea needed to ensure that the solution would be simple to manage, and provide a straightforward failover process in the event of a real outage. Given cost constraints, Dairylea needed the solution to be bandwidth efficient and deliver replication without impacting users of the production application environment.

The Coughlan Companies, a multinational corporation with a central data center in Minnesota and four offices throughout the U.S. and the U.K., was facing challenges with its fragmented IT environment. The company relied on a mix of legacy equipment across its different sites, which was becoming increasingly inefficient, risky, and costly to operate. The IT team had to manage the entire multinational operation from Minnesota, with little or no IT support at the remote locations. Managing the disjointed IT environment was a manually intensive, time-consuming endeavor involving a number of distinct administrative systems. Moreover, a full remote system backup or restoral could take days using the company's legacy data protection and recovery tools. The company planned to refresh and standardize its remote office infrastructure to eliminate operations expense and complexity, improve performance, and mitigate risks.

Abba Technologies was operating its IT environment on a complex system that included 9 ESXi hosts, fiber channel switches, two enterprise class storage arrays, several different backup solutions, and 7.5TB of off-site deduplication backup. This created a complex management environment for Abba Technologies and its customers. The company's five-year-old legacy infrastructure was nearing its end-of-life utility and a hardware refresh was needed. The company was faced with the decision of whether to update its existing infrastructure, which would involve a costly upgrade but allow the company to avoid a complete renovation, or make the switch to a new technology that could address its goals of updating old equipment and simplifying the IT infrastructure.

The Neenan Company and NexCore Group, both operating in the construction and real estate industries, were facing challenges with their existing disaster recovery methods. As the quantity of data grew between the two businesses, so too did the disaster recovery requirements within their data centers. They were in constant danger of a crippling hardware failure, which could result in downtime up to, and even exceeding, 48 hours depending upon how many hard disks were damaged. In addition to the serious recovery-time disadvantage, both companies had significant concerns regarding natural disasters and potential damage to the physical equipment within the data centers. Given the weekly tape pick-up cycle, they were seeking a better system that did not risk an entire week’s worth of work. While improving both companies’ disaster recovery capabilities was a top priority, they also saw an opportunity to conduct a technology refresh of the two data centers and leverage a new solution to reduce annual maintenance and operating expenses.

The Neenan Company was facing challenges with their existing IT infrastructure. They had a mandate to implement Disaster Recovery (DR) and improve their backup and recovery systems. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was proving to be a burden for them. They were looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and provide support for their remote and branch offices. They also needed a solution that could handle their production applications.

The Town of Newington’s IT department faced an infrastructure that was becoming increasingly complicated. As the IT environment continued to expand, more ports, connectivity, interconnects, and cabling meant that the team of five was fighting a constant uphill battle when trying to diagnose system issues. In addition to this, the Town of Newington’s host count was growing along with the VM app and storage growth. The team’s two data centers were quickly running out of space, and with nine out of 15 possible TB used up, it was only a matter of time before further scaling would be necessary. The town’s backup and DR capabilities had grown outdated and required an upgrade. For years, Newington had been using IBM TSM and a complex, manual LTO tape rotation process for backup and DR. However, upgrading this system would have entailed a complete restructure of the backup solution and reconfiguration of all backup jobs. The IT team was tasked with finding the best virtualized, automated platform that would offer disruption-free backup and DR with minimized upkeep.

Princess House, a leading online retailer of housewares, crystal and collectables, was facing challenges with its aging IT systems which were becoming increasingly inefficient, risky and costly. The retailer’s legacy IT infrastructure included Dell PowerEdge servers and EqualLogic storage systems—all deployed in a single data center. The IT department relied on four different data backup and recovery tools to protect a variety of enterprise and line-of-business applications. Using the fragmented data protection solutions, the IT team was able to back up fewer than 30% of the company’s virtual servers. Disasters or equipment failures had the potential to impair IT services and disrupt business; restoring critical applications could take hours or even days using the legacy data protection solutions. Dissatisfied with Dell’s customer support, and unhappy with the performance, reliability and economics of the company’s aging IT systems, Sean Lane, IT Manager for Princess House, initiated a data center modernization program.

The emergency communications center for a large U.S. county was facing challenges with its legacy Dell IT infrastructure. The disjointed IT environment, a collection of standalone servers and storage platforms deployed in a single data center, was becoming increasingly expensive, complex, and risky to operate and scale. The county needed to improve the reliability, economics, and agility of the region’s critical emergency communications infrastructure.

Etablissement Francais du Sang, a healthcare provider based in France, 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 and upgrade of their existing infrastructure led to an overall platform review. This prompted them to consider HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

Genia, a Danish hosted service provider, was struggling with its legacy IT infrastructure which was a collection of independent compute, storage and backup solutions with distinct administrative interfaces. This setup was proving to be too costly and complex to maintain and scale. Provisioning new customers or troubleshooting problems was a resource-intensive, time-consuming endeavor. Moreover, the provider was unable to meet its RPO/RTO goals using its legacy Veeam data protection solution. Concerned about the company’s ability to consistently meet its SLA objectives, CEO Kristian Hansen, decided to take a fresh look at the data center.

Guelph Hydro, a Canadian electric company, was facing challenges with its virtual desktop infrastructure. The IT team was receiving numerous complaints from users about slow system performance and frequent disconnections. Despite making incremental improvements every three to six months, the issues persisted. The company's data center was cluttered due to the use of SANs to run 60-70 VMware hosts on two networks, leading to a 'spaghetti' effect. The company was also keen on reducing its carbon footprint and saving power. The existing SAN took up half to three-quarters of a rack in the space the company had. Despite adding flash processors and hybrid flash arrays, then ESX hosts with NVIDIA cards, the problem remained unsolved.

NovAtel, a Canadian telecommunications equipment company, was facing the challenge of managing an outdated infrastructure that needed complete replacement. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was manageable but not ideal. The company was in need of a modern, efficient, and integrated solution to replace its old infrastructure.

King Price Insurance, a medium-sized insurance company based in South Africa, was facing significant business challenges that led them to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. The company's current deployment time could not keep pace with demand or staffing resources, which was a major issue. Additionally, the management of multiple solutions and vendors was found to be a burden, adding to the complexity and inefficiency of their operations. These challenges necessitated a solution that could streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and keep pace with the growing demands of their business.

Lawlords, a UK-based full-service firm of costs lawyers, law costs draftsmen and costs consultants, was facing challenges with its aging IT infrastructure. The firm relied on a mix of non-redundant legacy HP and Dell servers with internal storage. This outdated infrastructure was becoming increasingly risky and costly to maintain. Equipment failures or catastrophes had the potential to impair critical IT services and disrupt business. Furthermore, Lawlords was constrained by inefficient tape-based backup procedures. Applications and data were backed up daily, after business hours. Manual restorations from tape took hours, and any changes that occurred since the last nightly backup were simply lost. Stuart Taylor, IT Manager for Lawlords, initiated a data center modernization program to improve the reliability and agility of the firm’s IT infrastructure.

MyiOffice Corporation purchased HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a result of a new application deployment, including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Prior to deploying HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure, they found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be a significant burden.

The Northern California Carpenters Regional Council (NCCRC) was dealing with an aging multivendor IT infrastructure that had become too costly and risky to maintain and scale. The union’s core business applications were hosted on physical servers in a Sacramento colocation facility. Expanding capacity or introducing new applications often meant deploying additional servers and incurring additional monthly colocation fees. In addition, the IT organization relied on time-consuming, scripted file backup and restoration procedures. Hardware failures or administrative mishaps had the potential to disrupt business-critical applications for hours or even days while files were recovered.

Neil Medical Group’s multivendor IT environment had reached the end of its useful life. The Group’s legacy infrastructure—a mix of IBM® AIX® servers, Dell™ rack servers and Dell EqualLogic™ storage systems—was performance-constrained and running out of capacity. And the company’s data protection methodologies, which relied heavily on tape backups, did not provide efficient disaster recovery or full business continuity for critical applications. Chad Benfield, Director of IT for Neil Medical Group sought to improve the performance, reliability and economics of the Group’s IT infrastructure.

The fourth largest Oil and Gas Company in the world as well as integrated energy company with a presence in 29 countries was faced with a major problem: their legacy infrastructure could no longer service all their mission-critical applications. Applications such as Microsoft SQL server, Remote Desktop servers, applications to monitor buoys and wave patterns, and other third-party applications were not running in an optimized or secure state. For disaster recovery, the company used tape backup which was extremely slow and provided no solution for off-site backups for their ships, 200 miles off-shore. Also the existing infrastructure was taking up too much space in the limited room onboard the ships. This Oil and Gas Company sought a technology refresh and a solution that could deliver best-in-class DR capabilities. The Oil and Gas Company had been using six HP servers, NetApp storage, and VSAT connectivity to host ten VMware VMs. The infrastructure was consuming two full racks on the resource-constrained Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) ship where power, space, and cooling were premiums. This design had been in place for six years. Not only was the rigid, legacy infrastructure inefficient, the architecture also lacked the capabilities and agility needed to support new application requirements their business demanded.