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HPE Simplivity Hyperconverged Infrastructure Case Study - Salt Essential IT

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Company Size
11-200
Region
  • Africa
Product
  • HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure
  • HPE SimpliVity 380
Tech Stack
  • Hyperconverged technology
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SAP
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
Salt Essential IT is a small business located in Namibia. They operate in the computer services industry and were facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. The company had to manage multiple solutions and vendors, which was not ideal. They were looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and support their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration. They were also looking for a solution that could improve performance and provide capacity savings.
The Challenge
Salt Essential IT, a small business in the computer services industry based in Namibia, was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. They had to manage multiple solutions and vendors, which 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 company was looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and support their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration.
The Solution
Salt Essential IT decided to deploy HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. This technology brings 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 solution includes built-in backup and bandwidth-efficient replication to help ensure data integrity and availability. It also offers integrated data protection, inline deduplication, compression, VM-centric management via vCenter, and global federated management.
Operational Impact
  • Improved performance by up to 25% with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
  • Realized a capacity savings of up to 50:1 with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
  • Deployed new workloads, including allocating compute and storage resources, and configuring data protection policies, in up to 1 day.
  • Realized value in 1 to 3 months after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Performance improvement by up to 25%
  • Capacity savings of up to 50:1
  • Time to deploy new workloads reduced to up to 1 day
  • Realized value in 1 to 3 months after deployment

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