Town government simplifies IT with OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver mission-critical applications
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Company Size
200-1,000
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- OmniCube CN-3000
Tech Stack
- Windows Server 2012R2, 2008R2, 2008
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2005
- Oracle 10g/11g
- Citrix XenApp 6.5
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) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Infrastructure Inspection
- Public Transportation Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
The Town of Newington, population of 30,000, is located just south of Hartford, Connecticut. The town’s dedicated IT team of five provides 24/7/365 services for 21 different departments, including public safety. The IT department consists of two on-campus data centers, with 200 full-time users and multiple applications. Like many town IT departments, providing seamless, efficient service to police, fire, and EMS services, and transparent access to information for all citizens has always been a priority for the Newington team.
The Challenge
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 The town’s backup and DR capabilities had grown outdated and required an upgrade.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.
The Solution
After careful consideration, the IT department elected to look for a new, hyperconverged infrastructure that would provide disruptive-free backup and easy scalability, all while saving space and reducing complexity in the IT environment. The team chose the OmniCube Data Virtualization Platform for its integrated VMware management features, hyperconverged infrastructure with data efficiency and easy scalability. After a short, painless installation, the Newington IT team moved all of its production servers from the HP Server and LeftHand storage over to the new, hyperconverged OmniCubes within its data centers. In doing so, storage went from about 10TB used to 5.9 through inline deduplication and compression alone—a 40 percent automatic efficiency improvement. For DR, the team now does rapid backups with the OmniCubes in addition to a Unitrends, disk-based system already in place—a major step up from the previous LTO tape system. This method will be easily scalable in the future. Additionally, the Town of Newington expects to leverage OmniCube support for cost effective, secure, off-site backup to the cloud whereby they can treat the cloud as an extension of the data center to reduce cost and increase agility.
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