Case Study: Coughlan Companies achieves rapid backups, 20%+ application performance gains and 63% storage reduction with HPE SimpliVity

Coughlan Companies - Customer Case Study

Coughlan Companies, a Minnesota-based holding company for publishers and industrial operations with a central data center and four remote offices in the U.S. and U.K., faced a fragmented, manually intensive IT environment of legacy servers and SANs that strained staff, slowed backups and increased risk. The company needed to simplify remote-office operations, improve data protection and support a company-wide Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP rollout.

Coughlan standardized on seven SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged systems, consolidating infrastructure and centralizing management. The deployment cut physical storage by 63%, delivered application performance gains of 20%+, enabled data efficiency as high as 896:1, and reduced backups/restores from days or hours to seconds (a 300 GB VM now clones in 53 seconds), freeing IT to focus on strategic initiatives and improving DR/RPO capabilities.

Coughlan Companies

Brett Hoerner

Manager of Infrastructure and Support Services