HPE C8R35A, H6Z07A, C8S90A, Q1H32A Datasheet

Objective

Replace legacy storage with a powerful,
scalable system featuring deduplication

Approach

Reviewed the market for storage
solutions that could cope with increased
data volumes due to business growth

Case Study

Everex takes action to
counteract data explosion

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage delivers high
performance at reasonable cost

IT Matters

• Consolidates storage through
deduplication

• Boosts storage performance and
improves latency with Flash and
SSD technology

• Ensures data security by replicating
data between dierent data centres

Business Matters

• Saves cost on energy and data
centre space

• Improves the reliability and delivery of
customer services

• Provides a highly scalable solution to
support future growth

Challenge

Rapid growth in data volumes

Madrid-based Everex Comunicaciones
is a multinational telecommunications
company that provides innovative
solutions using principal data networks
both in Spain and throughout the world.
With over 20 years’ experience as an
operator, Everex oers Virtual Private
Network (VPN) and Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) communication and
a range of other telecommunications
services. It also sells cloud managed
services and hosts servers and storage in
its data centres.

Exponential business growth had brought
a dramatic increase in the company’s data
volumes and the problem of storing that
data eiciently had been made worse
because its legacy storage solution did
not feature deduplication technology.

This led to the same data being saved
repeatedly, resulting in huge databases
that created bottlenecks. Customers
wanting to access their data experienced
loss of performance and this impaired their
operational eiciency. It also detracted from
the outsourcing and managed services
oered by Everex.

“Our range of services includes all cloud and
hosting services, all high-availability services
and practically anything that requires
dynamic, on-demand self-provisioning with
long-term file system operations,” explains
Fernando Lapeña, IP services director with
Everex Comunicaciones. “Typical examples
are mail and log services.

“Upgrading our storage services required
a dierent kind of storage model from
the ones that we previously used. We had
experienced dramatic growth in the number
of customers and their data is
often repetitive.”

Case study

Everex
Comunicaciones

“Implementing two HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems has given us a

high-performance environment that can adapt to dierent changes, is
highly scalable, saves costs and can handle the day-to-day needs of our
company and its customers.”

– Fernando Lapeña, IP services director, Everex Comunicaciones Spain

Industry

Telecommunications
and IT Services

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“This created the need for new storage
systems that could provide deduplication,
allowing us to compress and backup
information without aecting performance.”

Everex needed a fully replicated storage
system for the virtualised VMware
environments at its various data centres.
It required tiers of storage, ranging from
high-speed to low-cost with non-disruptive
data mobility to flex and meet unpredictable
workloads. This would allow them to address
storage eiciency at the data centre level
while having a solution that could underpin
the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) it
made with customers.

Its aims were to meet the day-to-day needs
of its business, improve the quality of its
services and tackle the exponential growth
in information. The company needed a
high-performance system that could adapt
to dierent changes, was highly scalable,
would help save costs and could handle the
day-to-day needs of the company and
its customers.

Solution

Deduplication technology

After researching the market, Everex
purchased two HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8200
Storage solutions, one with Solid State
Drives (SSDs) and the other with spinning
hard drives. The solution features a
flash-optimized architecture, tier-1 data
services, and all the integration software
required for virtualisation platforms.

The Everex equipment is also covered
by HPE Proactive Care support with
four-hour response.

“Our main consideration when choosing
the HPE 3PAR equipment was that it is
next-generation technology which
incorporates deduplication algorithms,”
adds Lapeña. “This allows deduplicated
information to be practically presented
in real-time and at an aordable price.”

HPE 3PAR is built for customers like Everex
who want the performance advantages of a
purpose-built, flash-optimised architecture
with millisecond response times without
compromising performance, scalability,
data services, or resiliency. It was of
particular interest to Everex that the
flash-optimised architecture reduces the
performance bottlenecks that can aect
hybrid and general-purpose disk arrays.

Benefit

Higher performance, lower cost

The solution has created an eicient
replication system that makes duplicating
and transporting information to dierent
Everex data centres extremely eicient,
and proactive technical support helps
ensure smooth operations.