Central One Federal Credit Union streamlines disaster recovery with HPE SimpliVity
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Company Size
200-1,000
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- HPE SimpliVity
Tech Stack
- VMware
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Central One Federal Credit Union is a New England-based financial institution. The Credit Union's IT infrastructure had grown over the years and began to stress the capacity of their two data centers. Their non-virtualized environment had become cumbersome to manage, so the IT team began a market evaluation for a replacement infrastructure. This led the Credit Union’s IT staff to consider a virtual architecture that would allow them to consolidate physical resources and leverage new innovations to serve their primary business applications. The IT staff at the Credit Union was attracted to virtualization’s ability to consolidate the physical servers and meet their scalability needs in the future.
The Challenge
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.
The Solution
The Credit Union discovered that HPE SimpliVity’s globally federated, hyperconverged IT infrastructure platform fit their requirements in a unique way. Space efficiency, singular management, and ease of use were the natural attractors for convergence. Providing a smaller footprint, lower cost, and an enhanced integrated feature set, HPE SimpliVity began to stand out from the crowd. HPE SimpliVity’s stackable HPE SimpliVity solution provided a clean solution for their scalability needs as well as a smooth integration point for making the transition from physical to virtual servers. The Credit Union’s many physical servers would need to be converted to virtual machines. They quickly identified that an HPE SimpliVity solution, with its “data-center-in-abox” methodology, would provide an optimal landing place for those new virtual machines.
Operational Impact
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