Case Study: Municipality of Båstad, Sweden achieves continuous IT service availability and instant backups with HPE SimpliVity OmniCube

Municipality of Båstad Sweden - Customer Case Study

The Municipality of Båstad, a small seaside town in southern Sweden, needed to replace aging, single‑site HP/IBM server and SAN infrastructure that put critical services and the town website at risk from power outages or disasters. With an eight‑person IT team and a limited window of government disaster‑preparedness funding, the town sought a solution that would provide reliable business continuity and simplify operations.

They deployed SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged systems in a high‑availability stretched cluster across two sites, managed centrally with VMware vCenter. The two 2U OmniCube CN‑2000 units replaced 24U of legacy gear, were fully operational in two days, eliminated the need for outside consultants, and delivered major efficiencies—51:1 data reduction and backups that complete in seconds instead of hours—while ensuring continuous service during failures or disasters.

Municipality of Båstad Sweden

Robert Zackrisson

IT Operations Manager, Båstads Kommun