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Case study guide HPE INTELLIGENT HCI EMPOWERING CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is powerful solution that integrates software‑defined compute and storage with
automation to deliver simplicity, ease-of-use, and better economics by collapsing silos and removing complexity. Its
modular architecture lets you simply add additional HCI resources, without downtime, when additional resources are
needed. Businesses are looking to extend HCI further and bring the experience to more workloads.
ONE EXPERIENCE. EVERY WORKLOAD. EDGE-TO-CLOUD
HPE is reimaging HCI with optimized platforms that deliver an intelligently simple experience for every application.
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S Customers from various industries are benefiting because HPE delivers:
• Simple management
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing..............................................................................................4 Maryland Auto Insurance..................................................................................................... 20 • VM-centric management and mobility
Princeton Holdings.........................................................................................................................6 The Golden State Warriors.................................................................................................. 22
• Superior data efficiency guarantees 90% capacity savings1
HTI.................................................................................................................................................................8 Staples Solutions.......................................................................................................................... 24
• Modular/building block design for easy scaling
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Authority........................................... 10 Migros Ticaret A.S....................................................................................................................... 26
• Automation for easy install, deployment, 1-click upgrades, and expansion
Semitour................................................................................................................................................ 12 Gleaner Life Insurance Society........................................................................................ 28
• Built-in, policy-based VM backups and resiliency
Sefar.......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Libro Credit Union Limited................................................................................................. 30
• Global intelligence with visibility, predictive analytics, and proactive wellness
Sunway IT SSC................................................................................................................................ 16 Pitt Ohio................................................................................................................................................ 32
Post University................................................................................................................................ 18 PetSure................................................................................................................................................... 38 By adding artificial intelligence to your hyperconverged infrastructure, you can move from being reactive to
predictive. Through the application of cloud-based machine learning and deep telemetry from every connected
system in our installed base, HPE InfoSight gives you the ability to deliver the intelligent hyperconverged
infrastructure experience that you are looking for—where infrastructure is self-managing, self-healing, and
self‑optimizing across distributed environments.
Check out the following success stories to see how the intelligent HCI portfolio delivered by HPE has helped others
succeed and will help drive your success.
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HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee, July 2019
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ASTON MARTIN RED BULL
INDUSTRY
Automotive
RACING
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
UK-based Aston Martin Red Bull Racing has been a competitive
force in Formula One racing since 2005. By the beginning of the
2019 season, the team had notched 59 wins and eight world
championships, in part by adapting to design changes and new
regulations with agility.
TH E FO U N DAT I O N H P E AT WO R K ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• HPE SimpliVity HPE SimpliVity provides the basis for Aston CASE STUDY
• HPE SimpliVity with optional GPU accelerators Martin Red Bull Racing’s VMware and virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) estate, both in the VIDEO
• Support for VMware®
factory and trackside for race-day operations.
• Support for Citrix VDI
• HPE InfoSight C U STO M E R B E N E F I T S
• Reduces IT costs
C U STO M E R N E E D
• Uses less power on a reliable, compact platform
• Improve performance • Accelerates speed of decision-making
• Increase agility
“Hyperconverged infrastructure • Reduce storage costs
• Frees up time to focus on F1 innovation
enables us to get better answers • Decrease IT footprint at trackside sites
quicker when we’re on the racetrack • Increase responsiveness and flexibility
• Simplify management
and seconds count.”
A P P ROAC H
–M ATT CADIEUX
Rev up business performance with
CIO, ASTON MARTIN RED BULL RACING
HPE hyperconvergence.
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PRINCETON HOLDINGS
“We… need our systems to run
efficiently so we can help people
when they need it. HPE will help us KNOW THE CUSTOMER TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
keep our promise by enabling us to • HPE SimpliVity • Improved infrastructure performance and storage savings CASE STUDY
grow and future-proof our business.” Princeton Holdings Limited has been in the • HPE InfoSight by 50%
VIDEO
reassurance business for decades. Through its • Enhanced batch reporting cycle times from eight hours to
–S EBASTIAN TACCONE C U STO M E R N E E D three hours
DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND INFORMATION operating companies, this private Ontario‑based Improve performance and reduce server sprawl while • Reduced IT footprint
SECURITY, PRINCETON HOLDINGS LIMITED company specializes in insurance, risk supporting future growth. The infrastructure was not
• Addressed continued data growth
as seamless as it needed to be, and the data center had
management, and wealth management solutions. significant challenges. Despite server virtualization efforts, • Reduced IT costs
Princeton Holdings still had too many servers.
• Enabled security and compliance strategies
H P E AT WO RK • Provided reliable IT support to subsidiaries
HPE deployed three HPE SimpliVity 380 All Flash systems
INDUSTRY to help address the infrastructure sprawl and save hours of
Insurance and Financial Services valuable time.
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HTI
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
KNOW THE CUSTOMER T HE FOUNDAT ION • Enables a homogeneous, easy-to-manage
• HPE SimpliVity 380 infrastructure
The HTI Group markets ropeways, snow • Immediately supports future requirements
CU STOMER NEED
groomers and tracked utility vehicles, HTI wanted a new modern and homogeneous IT
• Optimizes resources through a common
infrastructure across the group
urban transportation systems, and wind infrastructure, which would be easy to manage,
• Delivers data redundancy per company
provide data security, reduce downtime to zero, and
energy globally through 61 affiliates and standardize the systems of the group companies in requirement
123 sales and service points. the different countries.
HPE AT WOR K A D D I TI O N A L RE S O U RC E S
HPE worked with several IT teams of the group CASE STUDY
to explore the possibilities offered by the
HPE SimpliVity infrastructure, including better VIDEO
management, data protection, efficiency, scalability,
and performance of workloads.
HPE IMPACT “It’s a change that has hugely
• Improves performance and business continuity, and
reduced downtime to zero
simplified our work, particularly given
the many different projects on which
we are working side by side with the
other companies in the group.”
–C LAUDIO BORRI
HEAD OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE AND HELP DESK,
VIPITENO HUB
High Technology Industries
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INDUSTRY
Public Housing
T H E FO U N DAT I O N H P E I M PACT
• HPE SimpliVity • Annual disaster recovery exercise dropped from a week to a
• Veeam couple of hours
• Reduced the time spent retrieving files from days to minutes
C U STO M E R N E E D
• Help desk has gone from days of looking through tapes to
Thames Valley collects and maintains enormous amounts of less than half an hour of effort
data. Disaster recovery was not up to speed. Server racks and
hard drives took up far too much space and power. Everything • Zero-lag compression and deduplication
was backed up to a SAN inside the building. IT didn’t have • Reduction in the amount of space and energy—from
the bandwidth or the speed to move these backups to off-site two‑and-a-half racks of servers to less than half
servers. It took days to recover from tape.
H P E AT WO R K ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Inline deduplication and compression from HPE and the CASE STUDY
ability to quickly restore servers of any size was a winning
combination. HPE SimpliVity not only delivered but also VIDEO
exceeded all Thames Valley’s expectations.
METROPOLITAN THAMES
VALLEY HOUSING AUTHORITY “We used to keep a few powered-down servers as reserves. We
mirrored our systems on to them, and we would switch them on
when one of our physical servers failed. HPE SimpliVity allows us
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
to spin up cloned VMs in a matter of seconds.”
Thames Valley Housing provides low-cost lodgings to doctors, nurses, and police officers –J UNAID ALI
in London. It’s one of the largest housing authorities in the UK and operates elder care DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE, METROPOLITAN THAMES
VALLEY HOUSING AUTHORITY
facilities and social centers where people can look for jobs and access various community
services.
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SEMITOUR
INDUSTRY
Tourism
TH E FO U N DATI O N • A centralized all-flash hyperconverged solution for all sites
• HPE SimpliVity • Faster response times “HPE support was also
• HPE Proactive Care • Better ticketing management
one of the strengths of
• Improved distribution of business applications on virtual
C U STO M E R N E E D machine our technical upgrade
Semitour wanted to modernize IT to be able to introduce new
services, protect data, and facilitate management to meet its
plan. Today, everything is
current and future needs.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES working perfectly and the
KNOW THE CUSTOMER H P E AT WO RK CASE STUDY regular updates allow us to
Semitour, the leading tourism management company in the Dordogne department of HPE helped Semitour install two new HPE SimpliVity continue to optimize the
hyperconverged nodes, each delivering the services of server,
France, manages cultural sites, accommodations, and leisure activities. 100% flash storage, and storage networking. operation of our sites.”
–PAUL GUITEAU
H P E I M PACT
INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGER,
• High availability of the information system SEMITOUR
• Secure data
• Implementation of a business continuity plan (BCP)
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INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• HPE SimpliVity HCI with 21 nodes • 60% less time spent on IT infrastructure management CASE STUDY
• HPE InfoSight • Considerably faster backups COMPANION SLIDE
• HPE Proactive Care
• The new VDI now incorporates more than 1,000 clients
C U STO M E R N E E D • Seamless connectivity to external cloud services
Sefar wanted a centralized IT infrastructure with increased • Three to ten times faster performance for the majority of
performance and high availability that could be managed by a applications and systems
small team.
• Users are no longer affected by batch jobs running in the
background
H P E AT WO RK
• High availability of business processes with fast replication of
The simplicity and clarity of the HPE hyperconverged data between the two data centers
infrastructure was the perfect fit. As early as the test phase,
Sefar realized that it could let the system run almost fully
automatically.
SEFAR
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
“This has considerably reduced the amount of time we spend
Sefar is a world leader in screen printing and filtration applications. Sefar operates a on operating the overall system, which frees us up to work on
global network of subsidiaries and manufacturing plants across 26 countries and six strategically important areas.”
continents.
–C LAUDIO ZOLLET
HEAD OF CORPORATE IT, SEFAR
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INDUSTRY
Retail Education
“Because we are already
experiencing what HPE
can provide from a solution
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
and support perspective,
Sunway Group is one of Malaysia’s largest conglomerates with we become more confident
13 business divisions—property, construction, retail, education, and to position HPE solutions
more—and over 50 locations worldwide. and services to our own
customers. It’s a win-win
situation.”
–K EVIN KHOO
DIRECTOR OF SUNWAY IT SSC, CIO OF
SUNWAY GROUP
TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• HPE SimpliVity • Improved performance and business continuity VIDEO
• Operational processes were twice as fast
C U STO M E R N E E D
Sunway IT SSC needed to transform its IT services to be able • A new VM could be provisioned within 30 minutes
to provide an affordable cloud-based platform that could • A full backup completed within 24 hours, with faster
deliver optimized support to all of Sunway’s subsidiaries. tape‑changing data efficiency
SUNWAY IT SSC
H P E AT WO RK • Kept capacity usage and costs at a minimum
HPE delivered a new set of advantages in a single, integrated
solution by streamlining a process that was once complex,
time-consuming, and resource-heavy, freeing up time for
more innovation.
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POST UNIVERSITY
“If you’re considering going with
SimpliVity, do it. It takes the complexity
out of your IT and makes it so that you KNOW THE CUSTOMER TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
can focus on your business and what’s • HPE SimpliVity • A solution so simple that the technology disappears VIDEO
truly important to you.” Post University is a fast-growing online • Reduced complexity
C U STO M E R N E E D
university that delivers top-tier education to over Post University wanted to manage IT costs and streamline IT • 40:1 reduction in storage
–D AVID ALDARANDO
MANAGER OF NETWORK SERVICES, 10,000 students. operations so it could grow enrolment and support a rapidly • One vendor instead of 10
growing distance learning program.
POST UNIVERSITY • Zero compromises
H P E AT WO RK
HPE’s all-in-one, data center-in-a-box hyperconverged
solution took the complexity out of IT and helped create
software solutions that make higher education available
anytime, anyplace.
INDUSTRY
Education
18 19MARYLAND AUTO
INDUSTRY
Insurance
INSURANCE
KNOW THE CUSTOMER T HE FOUNDAT ION • Help desk and all operations group activities run far
• HPE SimpliVity more efficiently
Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund • Moved from 200 hard drives to 30 or 40 all-flash
CU STOMER NEED SSDs
provides automobile liability insurance Maryland Auto’s storage systems were end of life • Cut 50 TB of production storage in half
to Maryland residents who are unable and vendors no longer supported its aging HPE G5
• Reduced infrastructure from seven racks to half a
and G7 servers. It sought a new IT infrastructure
to obtain automobile insurance in the with compatibility and reliability, but speed was a rack running eight nodes
private market, thereby reducing the welcome bonus.
number of uninsured motorists in the HPE AT WOR K A D D I TI O N A L RE S O U RC E S
State. HPE SimpliVity won out because it met all of CASE STUDY
Maryland Auto’s needs—single vendor solution,
simple to configure, easy to use, and fast.
HPE IMPACT
“HPE SimpliVity will have paid for
• Applications load instantaneously
itself in less than two years. I added
• Batch runs that used to take three to four hours up the savings and sent it over to our
now take 90 minutes or less COO. He couldn’t believe what he saw.
He asked, ‘What’s caused all of this?’
It felt good telling him it was our new
infrastructure.”
–M ATT AILSTOCK
IT SYSTEMS MANAGER, MARYLAND AUTO INSURANCE
20 21THE GOLDEN STATE
INDUSTRY
Sports
TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT
WARRIORS • HPE SimpliVity
• HPE InfoSight
C U STO M E R N E E D
• Delivers fast, flexible, and responsive IT infrastructure
• Decreases system management time
• Enables predictive resource planning and global visibility
across the sites with HPE InfoSight
“HPE SimpliVity is like
having an all-star lineup on
the court and an equally
The Golden State Warriors required an IT infrastructure that
would ensure a smooth transition of dozens of their existing • Offers built-in redundancy strong bench. It’s a winning
servers into another location. They wanted uninterrupted platform that helps us
service and on-site disaster recovery in case of a system
KNOW THE CUSTOMER failure. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES support a winning team.”
CASE STUDY
The Golden State Warriors is a U.S.-based professional basketball team that competes in H P E AT WO RK –M IKHAIL ZUBOVICH
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR AT
the National Basketball Association (NBA). With five NBA championships wins and the Three HPE SimpliVity nodes were deployed to enable
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
immediate venue transition and short-term IT infrastructure
latest one in 2018, the Golden State Warriors is one of the most well-known basketball requirements.
teams in the world.
22 23STAPLES SOLUTIONS
“HPE’s hardware was easy and
straightforward to manage. HPE also
did a great job in helping us keep our KNOW THE CUSTOMER TH E FO U N DATI O N C U STO M E R N E E D H P E I M PACT
infrastructure up to date and secure.” • Four HPE Synergy 12000 Frames with HPE Synergy 480 Staples Solutions wanted cost-effective and flexible • Saves 50% in annual data center costs
Staples Solutions is a leading European Gen10 Compute Modules data centers.
• Reduces data center hardware incidents by 30%
–A LEH SADAUNICHY
INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTION ARCHITECT, supplier of office products and services. Based • Two HPE Nimble Storage HF40 devices
H P E AT WO R K • Boosts the delivery of new products and services by 40%
• Two HPE Nimble Storage AF3000 devices
STAPLES SOLUTIONS in Amsterdam, the company operates in • HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Enabling HPE Synergy, HPE Nimble Storage, and • Provides greater scalability and redundancy of data center
HPE SimpliVity has not only met but also exceeded the infrastructure
25 branches across 15 countries and employs • HPE FlexFabric 5700 Switch Series needs and expectations of Staples Solutions. The company’s
• Reduces the number of administrators needed to support
more than 10,000 employees. • HPE OneView branch offices were equipped with HPE SimpliVity 380
the data center infrastructure
• HPE InfoSight Gen10 that supports high levels of input/output operations
per second (IOPS). This provided excellent operational • Helps expand its IT infrastructure easily and affordably
agility and dramatically increased the performance of
applications.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
INDUSTRY CASE STUDY
Retail
24 25MIGROS TICARET A.S.
“We are growing fast, and hyperconvergence
makes our systems less expensive and simpler
to operate as we scale. HPE SimpliVity allows
us to keep things simple, freeing up the KNOW THE CUSTOMER TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
creativity and budget we need to manage the • HPE SimpliVity • Reduces IT operating costs by 50% CASE STUDY
With more than 2,200 stores, 28 warehouses
present and plan for the future.” C U STO M E R N E E D
• Slashes energy usage by 70%
across Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Macedonia, • Improves server virtualization efficiency—15.3:1;
–M URAT ZOBU Migros wanted a simple, cost-efficient, and flexible IT
SYSTEM AND CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
12 million active loyalty cards, and 2,400 solution to handle the operations and help the chain to
application virtualization—16.3:1; desktop
virtualization—25:1; and continual platform—18.9:1
grow further.
AT MIGROS TICARET A.S. suppliers, Migros Ticaret A.S. is one of the • Helps scale up in both storage and server virtualization
biggest chains in the Turkish retail sector. H P E AT WO RK • Boosts data reduction and simplicity
To provide Migros’ server virtualization environments with a • Decreases the time and cost of maintenance, administration
simpler and more flexible solution, HPE SimpliVity enabled
45 nodes, 50 compute nodes, and 2,500 virtual machines
(VMs). And HPE SimpliVity RapidDR helped with disaster
recovery scenarios.
INDUSTRY
Food Retail
26 27GLEANER LIFE INSURANCE
INDUSTRY
Insurance
SOCIETY
KNOW THE CUSTOMER T HE FOUNDAT ION H P E I M PACT
• HPE SimpliVity • Increases performance substantially through
Gleaner Life Insurance Society is a decreasing the policy administration backup from
CU STOMER NEED five hours to 90 mins
U.S.‑based not-for-profit fraternal benefit Gleaner Life Insurance Society wanted a • Accelerates the production environment
society with 70,000 members. cost‑effective IT infrastructure that would provide
great scalability to meet the current and the future • Offers excellent disaster recovery features
demands of the organization and its internal users,
agents, and customers.
A D D I TI O N A L RE S O U RC E S
HPE AT WOR K CASE STUDY
HPE SimpliVity’s integrated storage stack and its
discrete hardware acceleration card helped optimize
system resources, reduce I/O and network traffic,
and speed up backup, clone, and restore operations.
“HPE SimpliVity is an enterprise-grade
hyperconverged solution that allows Gleaner Life
to compete with the biggest players in the industry.
It also gives us the tools to deliver a level of
personalized service that our members would only
expect from a much smaller company.”
–J OSHUA VAN CAMP
NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR SUPERVISOR AT GLEANER LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY
28 29INDUSTRY
Financial Services
T H E FO U N DAT I O N H P E I M PACT
• HPE SimpliVity • Provides seamless data compression, deduplication
• Gives access to information without delay or performance
C U STO M E R N E E D
degradation
Libro Credit Union Limited was looking for simple, fast, and
best-in-class deduplication and backup functionalities. • Restores backup quickly and efficiently
• Accelerates data recovery
H P E AT WO R K
The HPE SimpliVity environment—comprising one node each ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
at production and recovery data centers—powers Libro’s VDI.
CASE STUDY
LIBRO CREDIT UNION LIMITED “HPE SimpliVity’s engineers did all the heavy lifting. They planned
and built our data centers the same way we develop our customers’
financial portfolios. They optimized our investment to ensure peak
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
performance, long-term yields, and a maximum return so we can
Libro Credit Union Limited is a financial co-operative based in southwestern Ontario, turn around and provide the same benefits to our members.”
Canada. The company is a certified B Corp that offers banking and wealth management –C HARLES TRIEMSTRA
services. SYSTEM ANALYST AT LIBRO CREDIT UNION LIMITED
30 31INDUSTRY
Transportation
TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• HPE InfoSight • Accelerates data recovery CASE STUDY
• HPE SimpliVity • Reduces administrators with a simple IT system
• Provides built-in redundancy and replication
C U STO M E R N E E D
Pitt Ohio required a simple storage solution that would • Easily adds capacity to VDI environment
maintain a high level of expertise and meet the company’s
growing storage demands.
H P E AT WO RK
Pitt Ohio picked HPE SimpliVity because of its premise to
solve the I/O and data predicament. HPE has helped Pitt Ohio
with building disaster recovery and upgraded the data
deduplication to the ratio of 50.2:1 and compression ratio of
1.4:1 that allowed the quick scalability of the company.
PITT OHIO
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
“It’s the gold star among all the experiences I’ve had with
Pitt Ohio is a privately owned U.S.-based transportation and logistics provider. technology providers, and the results speak for themselves. It’s all
that and a bag of chips.”
–D AVE WUNDERELEY
DIRECTOR EIOS AT PITT OHIO
32 33INDUSTRY
Insurance
“With HPE Nimble Storage
dHCI, we can now provide
a superior VDI solution to
KNOW THE CUSTOMER
support changes to our
PetSure is the leader provider of pet insurance products in Australia. business model and our
400+ employees working
remotely due to COVID-19.”
–R OB COLLINS
HEAD OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE
MANAGEMENT AT PETSURE
TH E FO U N DATI O N H P E I M PACT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• HPE Nimble Storage dHCI • Reduces operating costs by 50% CASE STUDY
• Improves performance for VDI workloads by 50%
C U STO M E R N E E D
PetSure wanted to relocate employees to a virtual office • Achieves 50% faster application provisioning
environment and support remote veterinary care with • Improves efficiency by 70%
services to help suppress the spread of COVID-19 without
compromising on pet care.
PETSURE H P E AT WO RK
With HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, PetSure deployed a virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution and is now capable of
managing unpredictable workload volumes and deliver fast
and reliable remote access.
34 35YOUR FIRST CHOICE
These customer stories are a glimpse into
the power and protection that the HPE
hyperconverged platform offers you. HPE is seeing
strong adoption of HCI because we deliver a
simple, HCI experience for every workload, across
all industries. Our HCI portfolio is powered by
HPE InfoSight global intelligence which transforms
the support lifecycle experience, plus, we enable
hybrid cloud agility with HPE GreenLake flexible
cloud consumption.
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