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Global Education Provider Turns to ePlus for Data Center Modernization and Consolidation

The organization successfully collapses two data centers into one, reducing its server infrastructure by 81% while implementing a modern data protection solution with an efficient use of cloud storage.

Global Education Provider Turns to ePlus for Data Center Modernization and Consolidation
Business Challenges

Business Challenges

  • The education organization had a sprawling legacy infrastructure, which was attributing to availability and operational challenges including increasingly high costs to maintain.
  • Recent merger and acquisition activity presented design challenges that were difficult to resolve without major changes to the existing infrastructure stack.
  • The company maintained a lean internal IT staff and was struggling to manage a complex environment and resolve issues with internal resources.
Why ePlus

Why ePlus?

  • Strong level of confidence established from prior service engagements
  • Developed technical trust through an environment assessment and whiteboarding collaboration to explore and recommend modernization options tied to the customer’s desired outcomes
  • Ability to provide a multi-vendor, integrated solution with full ownership of design, implementation, and migration services through our talented team of certified engineers
Solution

Solution

Data Center Modernization and Consolidation
  • Cisco HyperFlex Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Cisco Switching, and Cisco Firewalls
  • Rubrik Data Protection and starter licensing for Rubrik Cloud Cluster
  • ePlus Professional Services for solution design, deployment, and migration of the server environment and core networking/security infrastructure into the new solution
  • ePlus Enhanced Maintenance Support for Cisco
Business Outcomes

Business Outcomes

  • Logically collapsed two data centers with separate servers, storage, and network into one
  • Significantly reduced the IT footprint and related costs by consolidating servers and hosts from 81 to 15
  • Replaced a legacy tape environment with a modern data protection solution and integrated cloud storage, providing the capability to pilot specific application workloads in Microsoft Azure
  • Achieved flexible, long-term retention management leveraging the scale efficiencies of public cloud Azure storage, operational simplicity to benefit the customer’s small internal IT team, and substantial improvements in recoverability of workloads
  • Shortened time-to-value with ePlus services for network core migration, firewall migration, and server data migration ahead of significant data center infrastructure maintenance deadlines

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