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HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure Case Study - NewPage Corporation

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Company Size
1,000+
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure
  • HPE SimpliVity 380
  • OmniCube
Tech Stack
  • Hyperconverged technology
  • Data center appliance
  • vCenter
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Procurement
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
NewPage Corporation is a large enterprise operating in the industrial manufacturing industry. The company was looking for a solution to help them manage their IT infrastructure more efficiently. They were dealing with the challenge of managing multiple solutions and vendors, which was not ideal. They were also looking to consolidate their data center and save on costs associated with electricity and air conditioning. The company was in the process of a data center migration or consolidation initiative and was looking for a solution that could help them achieve their goals.
The Challenge
NewPage Corporation was facing challenges due to the management of multiple solutions and vendors, which was manageable but not ideal. They were looking for a solution as part of a data center migration or consolidation initiative. The company was in need of a solution that could help them avoid managing multiple vendors and the associated multiple maintenance cost streams. They were also looking to consolidate their data center footprint and save on electricity and air conditioning.
The Solution
NewPage Corporation chose to implement HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. This solution brought all IT infrastructure and data services below the hypervisor into a single compact data center appliance. The HPE SimpliVity 380, based on the world’s best-selling server, is a compact, scalable building block that delivers server, storage, backup and DR in a 2U appliance. This powerful, simple and efficient solution includes built-in backup and bandwidth-efficient replication to help ensure data integrity and availability. The company uses HPE SimpliVity OmniCube in various ways including data center consolidation/private cloud, infrastructure modernization/technology refresh, remote/branch office, production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration.
Operational Impact
  • NewPage Corporation was able to greatly consolidate their data center footprint, resulting in savings on electricity and air conditioning.
  • The company was able to avoid managing multiple vendors and the associated multiple maintenance cost streams.
  • The HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure provided integrated data protection, inline deduplication, compression, VM-centric management via vCenter, and global federated management.
  • The company was able to deploy new workloads, including allocating compute and storage resources, and configuring data protection policies, in up to 1 day.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Improved performance by 25% to 50% with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
  • Realized a capacity savings of 50:1 to 100:1 with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
  • Realized value in 1 week after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

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