Case Study: AXEZ ICT achieves a cost-effective, high-performance data center with HPE Nimble Storage

Provide cost-effective, secure, compliant digital services to educational IT cooperative KIEN U.A

KIEN U.A. is a 10-member educational IT cooperative in South Holland, Netherlands, that delivers shared services (including the My Digital School platform) to about 30,000 users across 100 locations. Facing aging infrastructure that couldn’t cost‑effectively handle peak classroom loads, diverse member requirements, or future growth, KIEN engaged HPE partner AXEZ ICT Solutions to design a flexible, secure, and compliant next‑generation data center.

AXEZ migrated KIEN to an HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Synergy platform (with HPE InfoSight), completing the migration in three months. The new solution cut the data footprint by 50% through deduplication and compression, reduced physical nodes from 12 to 6, delivered zero business disruptions, improved performance and scalability, lowered space and power costs, and simplified management so engineers can focus on higher‑value tasks.

AXEZ ICT

Marco de Jong

IT Architect