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Failback in Seconds: Customer Share Disaster Recovery Stories from the Data Center

Surviving disaster thanks to ‘proof-of-concept’ system

When McCullough Robertson refreshed its storage devices, the Australian law firm re-examined its entire IT stack. The company decided to temporarily deploy a hyperconverged system to test the new technology in its production environment. Two weeks later, the company had a system power outage in Brisbane. According to IT Systems Engineer Brodon Hirst, “The entire building was turned off, and we had to failover to our Sydney data center. We were still only in the ‘proof-of-concept’ stage for our DR failover, which made it all the more nerve-wracking.” The hyperconverged system was instrumental in bringing their data back online fast. Hirst brought 50 mission-critical VMs up, “late on a Friday night, whereas our previous DR exercises took an entire day…. These systems were then failed back at the end of the weekend… with the only outage to the business taking place when the connection cutover occurred.” 
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Worth & Co., full-service mechanical contractors in the eastern US, wanted to modernize its infrastructure, simplify management, and cut costs. CIO Woody Muth was not disappointed with the solution they chose. The firm replaced three full equipment racks of legacy gear with three 2U hyperconverged nodes in its data center, and three additional nodes in another location. The geographically distributed configuration helps to ensure continuous availability in the event of hardware failures or application mishaps. “The product’s built-in data protection capabilities were a major differentiator for us…. When hit with the CryptoWall virus, we were able to restore all of our critical applications to a known working state within a matter of hours.” 
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Running DR tests, fails back in seconds

Brigham Young University College of Life Sciences had a long list of requirements for its new infrastructure: minimize downtime and OPEX; reduce management hours; and provide single vendor accountability, easy implementation, and offsite disaster recovery. Its hyperconverged solution delivered on all of that, within budget, and fully guaranteed. The college tested the failover capabilities and watched it failback in seconds. In system administrator Danny Yeo’s words, “I was blown away.” Watch the video clip.All of these customers have one thing in common: HPE SimpliVity.  The award-winning hyperconverged solution provides three powerful capabilities that help business prepare for disasters: a resilient hyperconverged infrastructure, built-in data protection features, and an extremely simple data recovery process. HPE SimpliVity also offers HPE RapidDR, an optional software program that guides you through disaster recovery planning, and provides a 1-click failback feature for recovery. You can learn more about the feature and how to combat cyberattacks in this whitepaper on mitigating ransomware risks.

Comprehensive backup and recovery plans are an essential part of business. HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged solutions are inherently simple, and built-in data protection can help reduce the risk of data loss through natural and human-caused disasters.  If a disaster does hit your data center, the benefits of a resilient DR solution extend far beyond simple peace of mind.

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies.

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