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HPE Simplivity Hyperconverged Infrastructure Case Study - Salt Essential IT
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Salt Essential IT, a small business in the computer services industry based in Namibia, was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. They had to manage multiple solutions and vendors, which was manageable but not ideal. This led to a capacity purchase and upgrade of their existing infrastructure, which in turn led to an overall platform review. The company was looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and support their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration.
About The Customer
Salt Essential IT is a small business located in Namibia. They operate in the computer services industry and were facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. The company had to manage multiple solutions and vendors, which was not ideal. They were looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and support their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration. They were also looking for a solution that could improve performance and provide capacity savings.
The Solution
Salt Essential IT decided to deploy HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. This technology brings all IT infrastructure and data services below the hypervisor into a single compact data center appliance. The HPE SimpliVity 380, based on the world’s best-selling server, is a compact, scalable building block that delivers server, storage, backup and DR in a 2U appliance. This solution includes built-in backup and bandwidth-efficient replication to help ensure data integrity and availability. It also offers integrated data protection, inline deduplication, compression, VM-centric management via vCenter, and global federated management.
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