SimpliVity’s support for Cisco ACI makes
businesses more agile and flexible
SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure
revolutionizing enterprise IT, today announced that it has advanced
its position as the most deployed hyperconverged platform on Cisco
UCS with an ever-growing customer base.
“With SimpliVity OmniStack running on Cisco UCS servers, we are
able to deliver the most advanced hyperconverged technology to
customers on the fastest-growing x86 server platform,” said Jesse
St. Laurent, VP of product strategy, SimpliVity. “Customers are
consistently seeking this joint solution, and even the largest
enterprises are running mission-critical applications and entire
data centers on our platform. Our continued customer success and
breadth of integration demonstrates that SimpliVity provides the
most complete hyperconverged infrastructure solution on Cisco UCS
in the market.”
Both Enterprises and Public Sector Organizations Globally
Continue to Choose SimpliVity with Cisco
Mississippi Department of Revenue Drives
out Cost and Complexity with SimpliVity on Cisco UCS
In an effort to improve its disaster recovery posture,
consolidate data center functions, and improve total cost of
ownership (TCO), the Mississippi Department of Revenue recently
deployed SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure on Cisco UCS
servers. The department was able to replace two full racks of
legacy gear in its primary data center with just three 2U
SimpliVity OmniStack with Cisco UCS systems. The department also
installed two additional OmniStack with Cisco UCS systems in a
remote data center for the purposes of disaster recovery. With
SimpliVity’s superior hyperconverged technology, the IT team at the
Mississippi Department of Revenue is able to remotely backup and
restore terabyte virtual machines in mere seconds, when it used to
take hours with the previous solution.
“We used to have to wait hours upon hours for backups of sizable
VMs to complete. Now, backup and recovery operations are a breeze
with SimpliVity,” said Patrick Welch, Network Services Manager,
Mississippi Department of Revenue. “Not only does SimpliVity enable
quick and high-quality performance, but it’s extremely easy to
manage as well. Storage and backup expertise is not a prerequisite
for spinning up IT services with SimpliVity.”
Guelph Hydro Solves VDI Troubles with
SimpliVity and Cisco
As an Ontario-based utility company, Guelph Hydro is responsible
for providing electricity to tens of thousands of homes and
businesses in Canada. However, the company was forced to constantly
field help desk calls from the internal users of its virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) because of disconnections, spotty
service, and underperforming systems. When exploring options for
how best to optimize its VDI environment, Guelph Hydro’s systems
analyst, Adam Borecki, found that SimpliVity OmniStack with Cisco
UCS was the perfect solution capable of delivering peak and
predictable performance for users.
“IT was constantly flooded with support tickets due to our VDI
performance. We were doing the best we could to manage and make
incremental improvements to the infrastructure, but we realized
that we needed to find a better solution than a traditional SAN,”
said Adam Borecki, systems analyst, Guelph Hydro. “SimpliVity with
Cisco UCS has been the ideal solution for us. We were able to
reduce our data center footprint, reduce power costs, and, most
importantly, we haven’t received any more negative comments about
the performance of our VDI implementation.”
Sunrock Simplifies Disaster Recovery with
Hyperconvergence
Carolina Sunrock, a construction materials supplier, was in
search of a new solution to replace its aging legacy
infrastructure, which was becoming insufficient in handling their
growing business systems and increasingly costly to support. In
order to implement a more reliable solution that would offer
greater disaster recovery features and easy management, the company
chose SimpliVity’s integrated solution with Cisco UCS and is now
running a host of production and business-critical workloads on the
hyperconverged infrastructure, including Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft Exchange, Cisco Firesight, as well as industry-specific
applications.
“SimpliVity’s built-in data protection capabilities have been
instrumental in creating a more efficient environment at our
company. Not only do we now have a disaster recovery plan we trust,
but it has also let us focus on other things instead of the
disaster recovery as-a-service implementation we were using prior
to SimpliVity,” said Jim Malone, Systems Administrator, Carolina
Sunrock. “At first I was skeptical that a hyperconverged vendor
would be able to reliably and predictably run and protect the
company’s mission-critical applications. After using SimpliVity for
a few months however, I can tell you firsthand that SimpliVity, and
its built-in data protection, are the real deal.”
SimpliVity Delivers the Most Complete Hyperconverged Solution
on Cisco UCS
SimpliVity has closely integrated its solutions with Cisco UCS
to provide customers with the leading hyperconverged solution on
this best-of-breed, enterprise-class server. As the most complete
hyperconverged platform on Cisco UCS, SimpliVity’s solution
includes:
- Multiple models of OmniStack with Cisco
UCS to support all types of companies, in any industry, and of any
size
- Validation for Cisco UCS Director that
enables self-service provisioning so that developers and
application owners can not only modify, create, and delete VMs
through their familiar orchestration tool, but also complete
backups, restores, clones, and moves
- “Cisco Compatible” validation by
Cisco’s Interoperability Verification Testing program, lending
increased reliability and stability to SimpliVity’s integrated
solutions
- Support for Cisco Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI) to enable an agile and flexible, distributed
IT framework where virtual compute, storage, and networking
resources are holistically and automatically provisioned to
accommodate business requirements
- TSANet and Cisco Preferred Solution
Partner status and Cisco UCS Manager reference architecture that
allows customers to leverage SimpliVity’s solutions for Cisco in a
one-call support experience
Resources
- Read the blog about SimpliVity’s
support of Cisco UCS Director
- Learn more about SimpliVity’s solution
with Cisco: Travelport customer video; Cisco and SimpliVity
infographic; SimpliVity support for Cisco ACI
- Follow SimpliVity on our corporate
blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and Google+
About SimpliVity
Founded with a mission to simplify IT, SimpliVity is a pioneer
in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, disrupting the status
quo of complex and cumbersome legacy IT systems. SimpliVity’s
hyperconverged IT platform delivers enterprise-class performance
and availability that today’s IT leaders require, with the cloud
economics their business demands. No other company has taken on the
mega task of assimilating all IT elements below the hypervisor (8
to 12 disparate functions) into a simple 2U building block of x86
sharable resources to deliver unmatched IT simplicity, operational
efficiency, and 3x TCO savings. The company’s unique data
virtualization architecture improves performance, protection and
data efficiency, while also enabling global unified management from
a single console. SimpliVity has revolutionized IT systems for
hundreds of enterprises around the world. Headquartered in
Westborough, Mass., the company has raised $276 million in venture
capital and employs about 750 worldwide. SimpliVity’s business
model is 100 percent indirect, and its solutions and professional
services are available worldwide through its network of resellers
and distributors. For more information, visit
http://www.simplivity.com.
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