The Vollrath Company Selects SimpliVity OmniCube Hyperconverged Infrastructure
As as data center and remote office infrastructure
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 26, 2015 at 3:06 pmSimpliVity Corp. announced that The Vollrath Company, LLC, a manufacturer of stainless steel and aluminum small-wares and equipment, has deployed its OmniCube as its data center and remote office infrastructure.
As a result, The Vollrath company has experienced increase in operational efficiency, as well as cost savings and unsurpassed flexibility, scalability and data protection with OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure.
“SimpliVity OmniCube is one of the most versatile hyper-converged infrastructure systems available,” said John Sharp, IT manager of infrastructure, The Vollrath Company. “Its native backup and deduplication provides incredible flexibility for use in branch offices where IT support staff may not be local. While other competitors had scale and flexibility limitations, SimpliVity was the only company that understood our approach and had flexible, building block capabilities to meet our needs.“
With HQs in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and numerous other locations in Wisconsin, New York, Mexico, the Netherlands, and China to oversee, The Vollrath Company had challenges concerning the optimization of management in its remote offices, as well as its ability to provide secure and reliable data protection using aging infrastructure. Prior to deploying SimpliVity’s hyper-converged infrastructure, the company relied on a third-party support team to assist its limited IT staff in managing remote office issues, adding $30,000 to its annual operational expenses. In addition, It needed to upgrade to a solution that offered superior backup and replication for its mission-critical applications, including SQL Server, File/Print Servers and Active Directory.
Vollrath selected SimpliVity’s hyper-converged infrastructure, for its capabilities for HA, failover, replication, scalability and VDI. OmniCube’s deduplication, compression and optimization of data inline to disk and over the WAN allowed Vollrath to move data from an 80GB server across its T1 line in Wisconsin and back it up in its New York office using less than 1% of the pipe and in fewer than 15 minutes-a process that would normally take several hours to complete and could trigger a disruption that could incur costly data loss to the company. Thus far, Vollrath has experienced a 99:1 data efficiency ratio, resulting in a 103TB capacity savings. This capacity savings includes copies made for backup and DR on local and remote OmniCube systems.
The incremental modularity of the hyper-converged infrastructure lets Vollrath decompose the system in an agile fashion and reconfigure it as per its requirements. This building block benefit, combined with OmniCube’s global unified management through vCenter, enables to scale according to a pay-as-you-grow model and remotely manage its branch offices from the central site in Wisconsin.
“We’re thrilled to work with The Vollrath company and enable the company to better manage its mission-critical applications across its facilities,” said Mitch Breen, SVP of WW sales, SimpliVity. “OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure provides the flexibility and cost savings that many customers want and need as they look for solutions that will reduce OPEX, improve operational efficiency and simplify the complexities of their data centers.“
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