Case Study: ALPLA achieves improved server uptime and business continuity with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

ALPLA Improves Server Uptime and Business Continuity by Centralizing Data Centers

ALPLA, an Austrian plastics manufacturer with 148 factories in 39 countries, faced a fragmented, decentralized IT estate—about 140 local servers, inconsistent suppliers and tape-based backups—that made global oversight, email uptime and business continuity difficult. To define a five‑year IT strategy and centralize services it engaged Hewlett Packard Enterprise (via HPE Technology Consulting Services).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ran workshops, prioritized roughly 150 IT issues and delivered proofs‑of‑concept, then built two high‑availability data centers (Austria and Germany), consolidated 140 branch servers, centralized Microsoft Exchange and deployed Microsoft SCOM 2012 for proactive monitoring plus HPE Data Protector and HPE StoreOnce disk‑based deduplication for backups. The result: always‑on email and faster patching, reduced downtime from days to hours, modernized servers, consolidated suppliers and a clear five‑year roadmap driven by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

ALPLA

Stefan Berchtold

Corporate IT System Engineer and Project Manager