SimpliVity Helped Town of Vail Prepare IT Infrastructure

SimpliVity Corp. announced that the Town of Vail, CO is leveraging SimpliVity to transform the reliability, performance and economics of its IT infrastructure.

The solution enables HA and DR for a variety of public safety applications, including 911 dispatch and video surveillance systems, and for other business-critical systems such as SQL Server and Oracle databases.

The Town of Vail sought a new IT infrastructure as it prepared to host the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, which took place earlier this year.

“Public safety is our top priority,” said Ron Braden, IT director, Town of Vail. “The SimpliVity solution ensures our emergency management systems and other essential applications are always available. The solution enables continuous IT uptime during major events like the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, which drew over 200,000 spectators.“

By replacing its legacy IT systems with the SimpliVity solution, the Town of Vail:

• Ensured performance and resiliency for mission-critical applications
• Achieved ~1600 SQL transactions/sec along with other mixed workloads
• Instituted efficient DR procedures via a remote data center
• Eliminated IT expense and complexity, migrated 72 VMs with three compact SimpliVity OmniCube systems at the primary site and a fourth OmniCube at the DR site
• Streamlined operations with unified management
  

Braden discussed the Town of Vail’s deployment on August 31 at VMworld San Francisco.

He will highlight how SimpliVity changed the role of IT at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, making it one of the most technologically advanced sporting event to date.

SimpliVity is ahyperconverged infrastructure provider to combine all the functionality of an entire data center stack-including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and backup-onto industry-standard x86 hardware. By consolidating and virtualizing its IT infrastructure, the Town of Vail was able to increase performance and scalability, while reducing ongoing operations expenses. The solution’s built-in data protection functionality minimizes I/O and network traffic, helping the town accelerate backup and DR functions.

“Disjointed legacy data center architectures aren’t well suited for today’s dynamic IT environments,” said Doron Kempel, CEO, SimpliVity. “SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution helps the Town of Vail streamline operations and boost IT agility, while safeguarding critical applications and data. We’re proud to have helped the town efficiently and reliably scale capacity to support high-traffic events like the World Ski Championships “