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£1.2 Billion Entertainment Company Standardizes on SimpliVity for Global Remote Site Infrastructure
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Infrastructure Inspection
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Merlin Entertainments, a large entertainment company, was facing challenges with its fragmented IT infrastructure. The company relied on a mix of independent server, storage, and data protection solutions at its remote sites. Equipment configurations and vendors varied widely from property to property, making administration and support a complicated and time-consuming process. The company initiated a modernization program to simplify operations and improve the economics, performance, and reliability of the company’s distributed IT environment.
About The Customer
Merlin Entertainments is the largest European-based entertainment company, operating 110 attractions in 23 countries across four continents. The company’s resort theme parks and midway attractions include world-renowned brands such as LEGOLAND® resorts, Madame Tussauds, and SEA LIFE aquariums. The company was looking to standardize its IT operations for its global attractions and theme parks. The SimpliVity solution was chosen to eliminate IT cost and complexity and ensure high performance and availability for business-critical applications and data.
The Solution
Merlin Entertainments selected SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure as the standard operating environment for its resort theme parks and midway attractions across the world. SimpliVity OmniCube eliminates IT sprawl, cost, and complexity by providing a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in a single device, with a unified administrative interface. The company standardized on two remote site layouts: a single-node configuration for midway attractions and a multi-node configuration for theme parks. Each remote location is backed up to an OmniCube in a regional data center for disaster recovery. Site-to-site operational failover is supported for business continuity.
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