Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that pharmacy powerhouse Chemist Warehouse, which
has over 400 stores around the country, has selected HPE to modernize
its data center with a hyperconverged platform and virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) environment to improve productivity for onsite and
remote staff, provide a strong foundation for innovation and increase
energy efficiency. The new solutions will be delivered through
high-performing, versatile HPE ProLiant servers.
Chemist
Warehouse serves more than 1.5 million customers each week, whether
in-store, online, or through third party providers such as Alibaba's
Tmall marketplace. The pharmacy giant has a growing footprint in New
Zealand, China and Ireland.
As
a result of its rapid growth, Chemist Warehouse aims to transform its
data center, completely overhauling its existing IT Infrastructure, to
improve operations for better sales and customer experiences, and adapt
to recent shifts to remote working experiences. By collaborating with
HPE to design a bespoke VDI solution using HPE ProLiant servers, Chemist
Warehouse gains foundational support to implement future solutions to
enhance automation and sustainability efforts.
"Our
commitment to modernizing our IT is critical for us to achieve our
transformation goals and continued growth. With reduced administrative
overheads, we can reallocate resources to innovation," said Simon
Hibbert, General Manager of IT at Chemist Warehouse. "The initial
beneficiaries will be our staff, which will experience improved
productivity and in return, will have a positive, downstream impact to
our customers in-store and online."
HPE
is helping Chemist Warehouse transform its IT with an infrastructure
environment delivered through HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Plus servers
using 2nd Gen AMD EPYCTM processors that
take advantage of the latest VMware vSAN all-flash capabilities for a
software-defined experience. The upgraded data center will also increase
energy efficiency by consuming 30% less power than its existing
solution, helping to advance Chemist Warehouse's sustainability goals.
"We
look forward to accelerating our collaboration with Chemist Warehouse
to increase efficiency and build a foundation for future growth," said
Andrew Foot, general manager of Compute for HPE South Pacific. "The new
environment, enabled by HPE ProLiant servers, will deliver better
performance, energy efficiency, user experience and lower latency."
The current solution is for core systems for the Chemist Warehouse Australia operation.
To learn more about HPE's infrastructure and VDI solutions, please visit www.hpe.com/au/en/servers/proliant-servers.html.