Case Study: Emilceramica achieves 50% increase in system availability and protects critical business, graphical and R&D data with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE Storage Transforms Production for Italian Ceramic Tile Manufacturer

Emilceramica, an Italian ceramic tile manufacturer, faced growing risk to business continuity after discovering nearly 40TB of unbacked graphical and R&D data and operating an aging IBM/VMware infrastructure tied by a single 10Gb link. The company engaged Hewlett Packard Enterprise (working with partner NETMIND) to run proofs of concept and find a high-availability, scalable backup and archiving solution.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise deployed a hyper-converged HPE solution—HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers, HPE 5700 switches, HPE StoreVirtual VSA clustering, HPE StoreEasy 1650 NAS, HPE StoreOnce VSA backup and an HPE StoreEver MSL2024 tape library—enabling cross-site replication, virtualized workstation delivery and long-term archiving. The HPE implementation boosted system availability by 50%, accelerated deployment of graphical workstations, delivered rapid backup and recovery and provided scalable capacity to protect Emilceramica’s mission‑critical business, graphical and R&D data.

Emilceramica

Luca Sghedoni

Network and Infrastructure Manager