Case Study: Jim Joseph Foundation achieves dramatic cost and risk reduction with HPE SimpliVity

Jim Joseph Foundation - Customer Case Study

Interland, a California real estate development and asset-management firm (and its Jim Joseph Foundation), was running out of capacity on aging Dell EqualLogic storage and couldn’t reliably replicate data between its Davis and San Francisco sites. That forced reliance on an expensive cloud backup service and created disaster‑recovery risk, so IT launched a refresh to simplify operations, improve performance and lower total cost of ownership.

Interland deployed SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged infrastructure—compact 2U nodes at each site with inline deduplication, compression and WAN‑efficient replication—replacing full racks of legacy gear. The result: eliminated the cloud backup service (about $2,300/month), dramatic data efficiency (307 TB logical to 6.21 TB physical, ≈49:1), faster VM provisioning and a perceived 50% app performance boost, simplified administration and meaningful CAPEX/OPEX savings.

Jim Joseph Foundation

Blake Soiu

IT Director