This modern state housing agency builds and manages affordable housing for residents. It plays a critical role in the housing-planning process, often dealing with asset management and compliance, the manufacture of homes and mobile homes, and planning and community development.
As such, the agency had a lot of mobile and off-site locations that lacked the performance and scalability that intelligent data storage solutions had to offer. In an environment where site-to-site data replication for data availability was a critical component of the job, how and where it managed that data was more important than ever.
Although it had already been a long-time customer of Entisys360, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Platinum Solution Provider, the agency found that its legacy Nimble Storage lacked flexibility and couldn’t scale when it came to modernizing to the cloud. That’s when the agency decided to upgrade to next-gen HPE Nimble Storage, with rapid movement to the cloud and the ability to leverage innovative technologies from HPE InfoSight, such as predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.
HPE INFOSIGHT USES INTELLIGENCE TO MAKE EVERY SYSTEM MORE SELF-SUFFICIENT BY:
- Enabling faster time to resolution as your infrastructure gets smarter: With over 100,000 systems connected to HPE InfoSight, availability and performance for your apps increase.
- Driving deep visibility and eliminating guesswork: HPE InfoSight achieves this with VM- and data-centric analytics, simplified lifecycle management, and recommendations to optimize performance and workload placement.
- Protecting everything with advanced machine learning: HPE InfoSight predicts and prevents issues before you’re even aware of a problem.
RESULTS: LEVERAGING THE POWER OF AGILITY AND NEXT-GEN STORAGE
As an agency dealing with sensitive information and data that quite literally changes lives, upgrading to next-gen HPE Nimble Storage was a game changer. The agency was able to host multiple data sets from different locations on one storage device, with built-in disaster recovery capabilities to actively monitor data storage performance and protection.
The benefits didn’t stop there:
- An effortless user experience across all aspects of the storage lifecycle allows customers to spend substantially less time on and allocate fewer resources to managing HPE Nimble Storage, resulting in 79% lower IT operational expenses.1
- Triple+ Parity RAID can handle three simultaneous drive failures and provide additional protection through intra-drive parity.
- The next-generation architecture from HPE Nimble Storage means that customers don’t need to make trade-off choices between data resilience and performance.
- HPE Cloud Volumes Backup allows users to move backup infrastructure to the cloud, delivering a simple, efficient, and flexible way to store backup data.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR BETTER BUSINESS OUTCOMES
Entisys360 currently holds a California Enterprise Technology Contract with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. These contracts are a source for original equipment manufacturer (OEM), enterprise-class equipment, and related services. Entisys360 works in cooperation with the state of California and our certified DVBE Partner to furnish quality products and services at the lowest discounted price available in a timely and efficient manner. As such, Entisys360 is the primary point for warehousing, customer service, data collection, reporting, and distribution to the state for the HPE products available via these contracts.
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1Enterprise Strategy Group, “Assessing the Financial Impact of HPE Nimble Storage Powered by HPE InfoSight,” accessed May 2019.
