Case Study: Salt Essential IT achieves 50:1 capacity savings and a 25% performance boost with HPE SimpliVity

Salt Essential IT - Customer Case Study

Salt Essential IT, a small computer services firm, undertook a platform review after a capacity upgrade and sought to simplify management across multiple vendors. Located in Namibia, the company needed to consolidate and modernize its infrastructure while supporting production apps (Exchange, SQL Server, SAP) and test/dev workloads.

They deployed a two‑node HPE SimpliVity OmniCube hyperconverged cluster, migrating VMs from 10 legacy hosts (with DR) within a month. The solution delivered up to 25% better performance, up to 50:1 capacity savings, faster provisioning (new workloads in a day vs. days–a week), and realized value in 1–3 months, with integrated data protection and inline dedupe/compression cited as especially valuable.

SALT Essential IT

Ronald Ducie

System Administrator