SimpliVity,
a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for the software-defined data
center, today announced that its customer, HISI,
a recognized player in the world of hosting and outsourcing of critical
applications, was named “Best Private Cloud” at the Best of VMworld
Europe 2014 User Awards, which was held in Barcelona. HISI won the award
for a project in which it replaced its existing IT environment with
SimpliVity’s award-winning hyperconverged infrastructure, OmniCube.
The judges of the fifth annual Best of VMworld Europe awards assessed
the entries and selected the winners based on overall innovation,
systems performance improvement, cost reduction, ease of management
burden, new use in the market and improved efficiencies and business
processes. The awards, hosted by Computer Weekly,
SearchServerVirtualization.com and LeMag IT, covered virtualization and
server consolidation, desktop virtualization, hybrid cloud computing,
disaster recovery and private cloud computing.
“When our storage area network (SAN) and blade capacity started running
uncomfortably close to its limits, we knew something had to be done,”
said Thierry Petit-Perrin, CEO and founder, HISI. “SimpliVity offers a
lot of flexibility in its implementation and operation. We were
impressed with the drastic improvement in performance since implementing
SimpliVity OmniCube. In addition, we saved money compared to
conventional architectures for SANs and blades.”
HISI provides best-of-practice IT infrastructure, virtual servers and
managed services around the clock, including an automated cloud service
to host virtual machines (VMs). To provide secure, reliable and superior
services to its existing and new customers, the company looked to
overhaul its costly and cumbersome legacy IT environment with a
hyperconverged infrastructure solution from SimpliVity. SimpliVity’s
external compute offering, centralized management of all virtual
machines through OmniCube’s Global Unified Management capabilities and
integrated disaster recovery features fit HISI’s high-availability
requirements.
In less than a month, HISI had successfully moved all 150 VMs onto the
SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure, including mission-critical
applications such as Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft SharePoint and SAP, and experienced improved performance.
SimpliVity’s inline deduplication, compression and optimization of data
allowed HISI to benefit from a performance boost of almost 50 percent.
Moreover, the deployment of new workloads in HISI’s environment has also
improved, now taking less than a day, compared to deployment time of one
week with its legacy infrastructure. Today, HISI’s ability to provide
outstanding backup, data protection and high-availability services to
its clients have improved tremendously, along with an accelerating
movement of more mission-critical applications and subscribers onto
OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure.
“We are pleased that HISI’s implementation of SimpliVity’s OmniCube was
recognized as the Best Private Cloud at the VMworld Europe User Awards,”
said Doron Kempel, CEO, SimpliVity. “Using OmniCube’s integrated data
protection capabilities, HISI provides clients with high-availability
cloud services for a wide range of applications. OmniCube’s
hyperconvergence and globally-unified management features significantly
improves IT performance for customers like HISI, and has allowed HISI to
become an innovative force in France’s IT environment.”