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Professional Services Company Deploys Private Cloud with Technical Guidance from ePlus

The organization achieves future-proof flexibility and a simplified network with modernized data protection to move workloads across multiple, hybrid cloud platforms—resulting in operational and cost savings.

Professional Services Company Deploys Private Cloud with Technical Guidance from ePlus
Business Challenges

Business Challenges

  • The services company had an aging Dell EMC stack with complex logical network design as well as operational challenges, performance limits, and growing maintenance costs.
  • With an initial focus on modernizing a few custom apps for SaaS applications, it also wanted a future-proof platform that would allow consistent management to public cloud IaaS resources for hybrid cloud workload demands.
  • The company was actively planning to perform application modernization over the next three years and sought capabilities to move workloads to different cloud platforms.
  • It had multiple, third-party partner integrations with workloads running in AWS, Azure, and other hosted providers—all running with different operational controls and security governance.
Why ePlus

Why ePlus?

  • Strong, long-standing relationship with the customer
  • Trusted advisor status to brainstorm ways to reduce costs on the data protection infrastructure and refresh the storage array
  • Deep technical knowledge to provide a vision of VMware Cloud Foundations in a multi-cloud environment and the operational simplicity of a hyper-converged stack
Solution

Solution

Private cloud stack enabling hybrid cloud workload mobility for service provider

  • Dell EMC VxRail and IDPA
  • VMware Cloud Foundation (including SDN with NSX-T)
  • ePlus Services for migration and deployment
  • ePlus Managed Services
Business Outcomes

Business Outcomes

  • Operational and cost savings from the consolidated legacy 3-tier design across multiple racks down to a small quarter-rack footprint
  • VMware Cloud Foundation provided a software-defined data center platform to facilitate future workload mobility to public cloud providers with consistent policy and operations as well as a standard platform on which to interface with third-party customers and partners.
  • Modernized data protection design allows for easy portability of the company’s long-term, seven-year retention data into the new solution that leverages ePlus Cloud storage for lower operational costs
  • Seamless tie-in with existing ePlus Cloud Disaster Recovery, including Tier1 workloads and hosting of critical data protection assets

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