Case Study: Somerset College achieves 50:1-100:1 capacity savings and rapid disaster recovery with HPE SimpliVity

Somerset College - Customer Case Study

Somerset College, an Australian educational institution, undertook an infrastructure refresh after a capacity upgrade and found managing multiple vendors and solutions — especially disaster recovery — was becoming a significant pain point. The college needed a simpler, modern platform to support key Microsoft workloads like Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint without extensive retraining for IT staff.

They deployed HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure (OmniCube) integrated with VMware vCenter, gaining native inline deduplication/compression and built‑in data protection. The result was dramatic capacity savings (50:1 to 100:1), faster workload deployment (up to one day versus up to a week previously), resolved DR via a remote appliance, reduced training overhead, and measurable value within one week to one month.

Somerset College

Scott Cunningham

IT Manager