Case Study: Atkins Nutritionals achieves 3:1 IT consolidation and simplified, high-performance storage with HPE Nimble Storage

Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. Puts their IT Infrastructure on an Efficiency Diet

Atkins Nutritionals, a global leader in weight‑control nutrition, faced an aging, overtaxed IT infrastructure managed by a two‑person IT team. With storage nearing capacity and significant lag in its virtual environment—impacting VM start times and MS SQL performance—the company needed a refresh that would boost performance, simplify management, and support a planned move to a co‑location facility and further virtualization.

Atkins implemented Nimble Storage CS220 arrays with Cisco UCS B‑Series servers, Cisco fabric interconnects, and VMware vSphere/vCenter. The new platform delivered dramatically faster application performance (eliminating the need to rebuild VMs), simplified “set‑and‑forget” management and non‑disruptive upgrades, a 3:1 consolidation to a three‑quarter rack footprint, and easy scalability for future virtual desktop and disaster‑recovery projects.

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