Case Study: National Endowment for Democracy achieves rapid cloud onboarding and reduced datacenter footprint with HPE Nimble Storage

Virtacore Standardizes on Cisco, VMware, and Nimble Storage to Deliver World-Class Public and Private Cloud Services

Virtacore, a VMware-focused cloud services provider with over a decade of experience, faced rapidly growing demand for public and private cloud offerings and needed a new infrastructure to accelerate client onboarding, scale quickly, simplify management, consolidate datacenters, and cut delivery costs and power use.

By standardizing on Cisco UCS and Nexus networking, VMware vSphere/vCloud, and Nimble Storage CS260 hybrid arrays, Virtacore shortened deployment times, simplified administration, and ran client POCs on the same production platform. The integrated solution delivered high performance at lower cost, supported faster revenue recognition, eliminated specialized training needs, and produced a 2:1 data compression that reduced datacenter footprint and power consumption while improving client satisfaction.

National Endowment for Democracy

Phill Lawson-Shanks

CTO