HPE JC106A Product Data Sheet

Datacenter Oostkamp
optimises costs for its
growing business

Case Study

Objective

Achieve the reliability and cost
eiciencies demanded by the growing
number of customers who rely on
Datacenter Oostkamp’s commodity co­location services

Approach

Met with three leading networking
vendors; af ter extensive evaluation,
confirmed that the mature HP
Networking solution could deliver the
reliability, cost eiciencies and simplified
network management required for DCO²

IT Matters

• Reduced the time required for
managing the network by 90 per cent,
saving time and money, and enabling
resources to be redeployed on higher­value tasks

• Simplified network configuration,
reducing network configuration errors
by 90 per cent and network problems
to zero

Business Matters

• Reduced operational costs, allowing
competitive pricing for the growing
number of customers of commodity
services

• Ensured delivery of robust and reliable
customer services, increasing customer
satisfaction, protecting revenue

• Enabled the 100 per cent year-on­year business growth to be achieved
organically, safeguarding profits

HPE FlexFabric solution delivers a resilient,
cost eicient next generation data centre

Datacenter Oostkamp
needed a networking
solution for its new data
centre. Robust, high­performance HPE 12508
and HPE 5820 switches,
and HPE SR8805 routers
provided a reliable, cost
eicient network that
was simple to manage.
The solution has led to
a doubling of annual
revenues, and happier
customers.

State-of-the-art data centre

Data centres are in the midst of a period
of significant change. Once providers of
speciality services for large enterprises,
within the next decade they will transform
into providers of commodity services for
SMEs. This transformation, while bringing
unprecedented growth, is forcing data
centres to drive down production costs.

“In the coming years the services that data
centres oer will move from a speciality
product to a commodity product,” explains
Janjoris van der Lei, CEO, Datacenter
Oostkamp. “Data centres are growing and
are moving down into the SME market.

Case study

Oostkamp

“The network in DCO² is running well – the support team haven’t received

any network-related tickets since we went live six months ago. We are very
happy that we took the decision to purchase this strong HP Networking
solution; we are a very happy customer.”

— Janjoris van der Lei, CEO, Datacenter Oostkamp

Industry

Computer services

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We expect to see a reduction in square
metres for larger companies – within ten
years they will make up only ten per cent of
data centre usage; the other 90 per cent will
be SMEs. Because of this, data centres are
focusing on cost-cutting.”

Datacenter Oostkamp’s new state-of-the-art
data centre, DCO², replaced its outmoded
traditional data centre. DCO² was designed
and located with cost eiciencies in mind.
Unlike conventional data centres, which
are situated in large cities, DCO² lies in
the Belgian countryside, but close to the
crossroads of the networks running between
London and Frankfurt, and between Paris
and Amsterdam.

“The environment is pollution-free so we
can use free outside air for cooling, reducing
cooling costs to a maximum of two per cent
of our energy budget,” van der Lei reveals.
“The out of town location also ensures that
building and maintenance costs are lower.”

Today Datacenter Oostkamp oers
customers co-location services and
Hardware-as-a-Service; in the future it is
looking to oer Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
With co-location services it is impossible to
predict how customers will use the facilities
provided by the data centre, or what growth
customers will have. This means forecasting
is almost impossible for Datacenter
Oostkamp.

“When we designed DCO² we had no
indication of how it would actually be used,
making forecasting networking demands
impossible,” conveys van der Lei. “Today we
have customers who use the network for
storage or cloud environments and demand
high capacity, and we have customers who
use the network for VoIP and demand
quality of service. Customers are demanding
a great deal from the network: they are
demanding that the network be free of jitter,
fallout and packet loss because, for example,
this would prevent their game server
environment working properly.”

Providing the flexibility
and scalability
customers demand

A Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Networking solution that includes two HPE
12508 series switches and two HPE 8800
series routers allows Datacenter Oostkamp
to achieve the flexibility and scalability
that is vital for delivery of a high level of
customer service in an unpredictable and
demanding environment.

“The network is the backbone of the
data centre and the HPE switches and
routers allow us to provide a robust and
cost eicient network that can handle the
complex and ever-changing demands of our
customers,” notes van der Lei. “We used to