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International Manufacturer Improves Application Performance by 4X with SimpliVity
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Infrastructure Inspection
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
Romac Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry, was facing challenges with its legacy multivendor IT environment. The existing infrastructure, a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC, had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain and scale. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. Russell Turley, IT Manager for Romac, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the performance and reliability of the company’s IT systems.
About The Customer
Romac Industries is a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry. The company was dealing with a legacy multivendor IT environment that had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain, and scale. The existing infrastructure was a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. The company needed a solution that would improve the performance and reliability of its IT systems.
The Solution
Romac Industries selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure for its next-generation IT implementation. SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in one device, with a unified administrative interface. Romac deployed five SimpliVity nodes in its primary data center, replacing four racks of legacy equipment. A fully redundant configuration ensures continuous availability in the event of hardware failures. Four additional SimpliVity nodes are installed in a remote data center for rapid disaster recovery. SimpliVity’s real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies deliver breakthrough performance and data efficiency.
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