ITX Enterprises Selects HP Converged Infrastructure

Hewlett-Packard
Development company, L.P. announced that ITX Enterprises Inc., a virtual
desktop service provider for behavioral health professionals, has selected an
HP converged infrastructure to host its private cloud and expand service
delivery nationally.

ITX Enterprises provides the Pro-Filer
behavioral health records management system to a consortium of 500 behavioral
health professionals across the state of Utah. Pro-Filer offers secure online
storage for client records as well as invoice and payables generation for
health practitioners.

To roll out the Pro-Filer system on a
national scale, the company needed a reliable infrastructure with the
flexibility and scalability to host a private cloud of virtual desktops. After
evaluating competitive offerings from Cisco, Dell and NetApp, ITX Enterprises
chose server, storage and networking solutions from HP. The company discovered
that competing solutions, such as Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), only
provided a portion of the infrastructure it needed, and lacked converged
storage solutions to support growing service demands. ITX Enterprises wanted a
solution from a single vendor to help reduce costs while simplifying system
management and accelerating service delivery.

The updated infrastructure for ITX
Enterprises includes a combination of HP’s server and storage solutions, which
streamline maintenance while easing troubleshooting and support. In addition,
HP Networking has enabled ITX Enterprises to improve network performance while
keeping costs down. Together, these components allow for better technical
integration and convergence on a reliable, scalable platform.

"When
we began discussions on offering the Pro-Filer system across the US as a hosted solution, our infrastructure technology was outdated and just
couldn’t support the data-intensive service levels the system required"’
said Todd Christensen, IT manager, ITX Enterprises. "After extensive research, we selected HP because their Converged
Infrastructure delivered a comprehensive, integrated solution with the
reliability and scalability we needed to support current as well as future
business needs."

By leveraging single-vendor support for servers, storage and networking that is
administered through a common management platform, ITX Enterprises delivered an
85% reduction in time to add, remove or change servers.

By using an HP Virtual
Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module with HP 5800 switch series, the company
also lowered costs with an 80% reduction in network cabling and
switches (based on ITX Enterprises internal data.)

In addition, the company expanded storage capacity as needed
without unexpected downtime, reducing administration time by 75% (based on ITX Enterprises internal data.)

ITX
Enterprises has recognized substantial cost savings from the rollout, which
integrated an HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure with five HP ProLiant BL460c G7
server blades hosting virtual machines running VMware vSphere 5 and a four-node
HP StoreVirtual Storage system. By using thin provisioning and storage
clustering provided by the HP StoreVirtual Storage system, ITX avoided the
purchase of 15 extraTB of DAS or NAS. The company also
experienced an 89% reduction in physical servers and an $18,000 annual
reduction in power consumption with the HP BladeSystem environment (based on ITX Enterprises internal data.)

TX
runs VMware vSphere on the HP ProLiant servers, which provides the company with
greater application performance and helps boost business responsiveness.

To ensure rapid deployment of its HP
Converged Infrastructure, ITX Enterprises utilized HP Factory Express to
pre-assemble, pre-test and pre-configure the solution to its specifications. As a
result, data center setup was complete in one hour, compared with weeks for
comparable solutions – a 99% reduction in system time to value (based on ITX Enterprises internal data.)