Chemist Warehouse Turns to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Transform its Data Center with New Hyperconverged and VDI Solutions
September 20 2021 - 07:00PM
Business Wire
Australia’s powerhouse pharmacy retail chain supports rapid
growth and innovation with a hyperconverged platform and virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution powered by HPE ProLiant
servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today 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 EPYC™ 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.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
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technology solutions delivered as a service – spanning Compute,
Storage, Software, Intelligent Edge, High Performance Computing and
Mission Critical Solutions – with a consistent experience across
all clouds and edges, designed to help customers develop new
business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational
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