SimpliVity Sold 1,000 Systems With Cisco UCS

SimpliVity Corp., in hyperconverged infrastructure, announced enterprise gains for OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS – selling more than 1,000 units to date to hundreds of customers, including purchases by Land O’Lakes, Inc. and Assured Guaranty Ltd.

In addition, enterprise customers across the globe in healthcare, banking and finance, utilities, entertainment, retail, government agencies, and more, have stored more than 350PB of data on SimpliVity’s platform with Cisco UCS.

“After only five quarters since announcing our partnership-and just three quarters selling with Cisco globally-SimpliVity and its partners have sold 1,000 hyperconverged Cisco UCS systems, storing more than 350 PB of data globally. Together, we’ve led large-scale enterprises to choose SimpliVity in growing numbers and at rapidly increasing installation sizes. Our deals encompass tens and often hundreds of systems, by replacing legacy IT stacks, across sites, with a simpler, more transformational solution that delivers all IT infrastructure and data services below the hypervisor,” said Doron Kempel, CEO, SimpliVity. “With a rapidly growing pipeline fueled by growing VAR registrations, SimpliVity is both humbled and pleased with our market momentum to date and future prospects with Cisco and our joint VARs. Lastly, SimpliVity’s validation by analysts and end-users demonstrates that only SimpliVity delivers the efficiency, resiliency, and performance that enterprise customers require, with unprecedented 3x TCO savings – across all market segments.“

Enterprises move to SimpliVity with Cisco UCS
Some of the largest enterprises have chosen SimpliVity to manage their IT environments, including one of the world’s largest mass media groups, one of the top three global commodity trading firms, a top five global insurance company, one of the largest electric utilities in the US, and one of the three military departments of the US Department of Defense.

Some specific examples include:

• European cloud services and SaaS hosting provider powers next-gen data center: Service provider purchased about 200 systems for SimpliVity’s scale-out model, improved operational efficiency, and agility to respond to subscribers with protected VMs.
• Media and entertainment company for data protection and remote sites: Mass media picked SimpliVity over larger competitors to refresh its aging IT infrastructure at remote sites, support its dev/test environment, and address data protection and backup challenges.
• One of the globe’s largest renewable energy generator realizes TCO reduction with app performance: Energy provider runs all business-critical applications on 32 OmniStack solutions with Cisco UCS in remote, distributed wind farms, which reduced the time/resources to complete tasks by 2X and achieved superior reliability with data protection, giving a 10X improvement in RPOs.
• Large development bank in India for VDI and core banking: Financial services customer purchased 20 systems to improve performance and DR for all banking apps, VDI, and dev/test, improving performance and operational efficiency.
• Travel commerce platform provider utilizes SimpliVity for data center modernization: Travel and tourism industry turned to SimpliVity to consolidate and simplify its IT infrastructure and launch a private cloud on premises.
• Global 100 financial services company chooses SimpliVity for massive data center overhaul: Financial services firm standardizes on OmniStack for all hyperconverged workloads, deploying about 250 OmniStack systems with Cisco UCS across the globe.
  

SimpliVity combines all the functionality of a data center stack below the hypervisor including compute, storage, network switching, replication, backup and more-onto industry-standard x86 hardware. SimpliVity offers its solution with Cisco UCS x86 server platform, to give Cisco customers all the benefits of SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure – 3x TCO savings, accelerated data efficiency, built-in data protection, and unified management – on their preferred platform.