Case Study: Blundstone achieves IT modernization and rapid, efficient data protection with HPE SimpliVity

Blundstone takes big step to modernize IT infrastructure with HPE SimpliVity

Blundstone, an Australian footwear manufacturer and online retailer, faced aging, inefficient IT: virtualized legacy servers with disparate backup tools that made deployments slow and restores lengthy, putting business continuity and costs at risk. The company launched a data center modernization to improve scalability, reliability and disaster recovery.

Blundstone implemented HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure—replacing two racks with two 2U nodes in the primary site plus a remote node for DR—consolidating compute, storage, networking and data protection. The change delivered VM-level backups and restores in minutes, new workload deployments in days, improved application performance, 47:1 data efficiency, reduced TCO and freed IT staff to focus on core business initiatives.

Blundstone

Peter Cullen

ICT & data hardware manager