• SimpliVity Demand Growing Fast

    In a competitive world where there are multiple HyperConverged platforms to choose from that will integrate storage, compute, memory and virtualization resources into a small hardware form factor appliance supported by a single vendor, I am seeing a growing demand for one platform in particular,  HPE’s SimpliVity.

     

    Over the past three months, I have had three requests to refresh an existing array with SimpliVity.  I was also recently asked to bring HPE’s SimpliVity into a large enterprise customer’s datacenter to replace their existing HyperConverged platform. Why are businesses looking at SimpliVity?

     

    There seem to be five key factors that are tipping the scales toward SimpliVity:

     

    • SimpliVity accelerates performance by avoiding unneeded IO
    • SimpliVity deduplicates everything once and forever globally across applications
    • There is no need to have a minimum of three nodes (like competitive vendors) which helps keep costs down
    • SimpliVity has a single point of contact for support, regardless if it’s concerning SimpliVity, VMware or hardware (competitors have multiple hardware vendors)
    • SimpliVity comes with an industry best integrated backup solution

     

    SimpliVity simply outshines all competition when it comes to backup/restore.   All data is deduplicated, and the restore of VMs in almost immediate, regardless of size, even across different datacenters.  In one real life example, a customer had a need to restore 2TB of data quickly.  The customer concurrently had one System Administrator start the restore process using a “traditional” backup solution, while another System Administrator decided to try to restore using their newly purchased SimpliVity.   End result – SimpliVity restored the file server from their DR location across WAN in about 5 seconds.  The System Admin then took the affected partition, attached it to the production file server, replacing the corrupted one, and completed the task in about 10 minutes – at which point they cancelled the traditional restore, which had only hit the 10% mark.

     

    Cost and Speed also plays a large part in customers jumping to move to SimpliVity.   The cost savings was quickly realized when one of my customers went from seven cabinets at a colocation facility to half a cabinet for SimpliVity, which integrated everything: network equipment, servers, and back-up appliance. Colocation leasing costs are a fraction of what they had been paying, not to mention the additional savings from lower monthly power bills.   The significant gains in speed were even more far reaching.   SimpliVity brings faster processors and additional RAM, running a flash array, resulting in a huge IOPS gain.   This translated to significant gains in development speed seen in SimpliVity’ s ability to immediately clone and deploy virtual machines.   If they have a massive surge in server traffic or have to deploy a new program, all they have to do is click on a template.  If they need a new database server or an IIS server, their developer simply has to go in and change host names and IP addresses.  If they need additional capacity to boot up a test machine, they can spin up extra development VMs in no time.  Their network team can replicate a VM from a template, tweak IPs, host names, firewall rules and load balancer settings, and they are good to go.

     

    Its these real-life examples that create rabid fans of SimpliVity once deployed.

     

    Finally, my customers pointed to the SimpliVity OmniStack Accelerator Card as a key differentiator.   The Accelerator Card handles the heavy lifting, delivering the required processing power without the high costs. It’s a uniquely architected PCIe module that processes all writes and manages the compute-intensive tasks of deduplication and compression and allows the x86 CPUs to run customers’ business applications.   The card is inserted into a HPE DL380 Gen 9 or Gen 10 server providing ultra-fast write processing and caching services that don’t rely on commodity CPUs.  The card contains flash and it is also protected by super-capacitors to allow DRAM to be saved in the event of a power loss, making it extremely reliable.

     

    SimpliVity is a radically simplified and dramatically lower-cost infrastructure platform that delivers on the requirements for scalability, flexibility, performance elasticity, data mobility, global management, and cloud integration that today’s IT infrastructures require.

     

    Read this Case Study from a company in Fort Collins, Colorado on how they were able to decrease complexity and increase efficiency of disaster recovery capabilities, while also reducing expenses when they moved to SimpliVity.

     

    Contact Zunesis today to find out more about SimpliVity.

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