SimpliVity,
a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for IT, today announced that The
Neenan Company, a design and construction firm, is leveraging
SimpliVity OmniCube
hyperconverged
infrastructure systems to simplify its IT, improve disaster recovery
capabilities, and drive greater data and performance efficiency –
resulting in dramatic operational and financial benefits. After
replacing its legacy infrastructure with SimpliVity's hyperconverged
infrastructure solution, The Neenan Company:
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Increased application performance by 75 percent.
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Achieved data capacity savings of 40:1 to 80:1 through inline
deduplication, compression, and optimization.
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Accelerated data protection processes, experiencing up to 24 times
faster backup and disaster recovery performance.
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Drove operational changes that increased productivity and
significantly reduced total cost of ownership for IT infrastructure.
The Neenan Company has a team of three IT professionals responsible for
protecting 40 mission-critical virtual machines that keep the business
running each day. The company sought a solution that would provide
on-premises operational recovery and off-premises disaster recovery to
protect itself from data loss and business downtime, using a partner’s
data center as its disaster recovery site. While improving its disaster
recovery capabilities was a top priority, this was also an opportunity
to conduct a technology refresh and leverage a new solution to reduce
annual maintenance and operating expenses.
“We were looking for one fix to a disaster recovery project and found
three solutions in one with SimpliVity,” said George Dial, IT manager at
The Neenan Company. “SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure
simplifies IT and operations in a way that no other product can. Having
exceeded our critical disaster recovery needs, SimpliVity drastically
reduced our annual data center operating and maintenance costs.”
SimpliVity
OmniCube systems provide the best of both worlds: cloud economics
with enterprise performance, protection and functionality. As the only
hyperconverged infrastructure provider to combine all features and
functionality of an entire data center stack on commodity x86 systems –
including the compute, storage, network switching, backup, replication,
cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication and
more – SimpliVity dramatically simplifies IT for customers.
Having been introduced to SimpliVity through 1903
Solutions, a value-added reseller and SimpliVity partner, the IT
team was impressed with SimpliVity’s inline deduplication, compression
and optimization, and found that it met and exceeded their needs. The
Neenan Company’s IT team deployed two SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged
infrastructure systems at two locations to support its mission-critical
applications – including CMiC project software powered by Oracle 10g,
Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, AutoDesk Revit, Microsoft Remote Desktop
Services, and Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux. In addition to local backups,
backups are regularly replicated between The Neenan Company’s primary
and disaster recovery sites. Since switching to SimpliVity’s
hyperconverged infrastructure, The Neenan Company has seen significant
improvements in its disaster recovery and backup capabilities, as well
as increase overall operational efficiency.
“There is a palpable shift in the industry as more companies look to
optimize their data centers and implement a fully virtualized
environment,” said Mitch Breen, senior vice president, global sales at
SimpliVity. “SimpliVity delivers a true hyperconverged infrastructure
that allows customers to deploy their mission-critical applications and
experience enterprise-level capabilities and cloud economics. This one
decision drives enormous transformation for IT.”