Case Study: High Cotton achieves seconds-fast backups, full disaster recovery and 219:1 data efficiency with HPE Simplivity

High Cotton - Customer Case Study

High Cotton, a document outsourcing firm, faced a costly, fragmented legacy IT environment running HP servers, third‑party storage and no in‑house data protection. Administering VDI and business‑critical applications was manual and slow—restores could take hours or days—and the company needed a scalable, resilient platform to simplify operations and protect its infrastructure.

High Cotton deployed a SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged 3+1 federation (three CN‑3000s in primary, one CN‑3000 at a DR site 670 miles away) managed via VMware vCenter. The result: full protection for 60 VMs including VDI, backups/restores in seconds, weekly file restores cut from hours to about 60 seconds, 219:1 data efficiency (3.26 PB logical to 16.2 TB physical), lower TCO, and streamlined operations managed by a single administrator.

High Cotton

Jeff Byers

IT Director, High Cotton