Case Study: Fortune 50 Financial Services Firm achieves 4x lower TCO and consolidates six data centers into three with HPE SimpliVity

Fortune 50 financial services firm slashes TCO by 4x and mitigates risks with HPE

A Fortune 50 global financial services firm faced a fractured, costly multivendor IT estate after multiple acquisitions: six non‑optimized data centers, dozens of independent compute/storage/protection platforms, high energy and run costs, and an inability to meet RPO/RTO goals. The complexity slowed deployments, stretched IT resources, and increased risk across its global operations.

The company standardized on HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure—deploying 125+ nodes and consolidating six sites into three optimized data centers—providing unified, VM‑centric management, inline deduplication/compression and built‑in protection for 4,000 VMs. The move simplified operations, eliminated dedicated storage and WAN appliances, freed IT staff for innovation, and is projected to cut TCO by ~4x with about $100M in five‑year savings and $530K/year in power reductions (roughly 150 racks eliminated).