Case Study: Surrey Place Centre achieves rapid data protection and disaster recovery with HPE SimpliVity

Surrey Place Centre - Customer Case Study

Surrey Place Centre, a specialized clinical services provider for people with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and visual impairments, faced a costly, fragmented IT environment of HP and Dell servers with tape‑based offsite backups. This siloed setup was complex to manage and exposed critical applications to prolonged downtime if a disaster occurred.

The organization consolidated onto SimpliVity OmniStack with Cisco UCS—deploying two primary nodes and a third at a remote colocation for DR—delivering integrated compute, storage and built‑in data protection. Results included backups and recoveries in minutes (hourly remote backups), 100% uptime since deployment, Exchange performance 75% faster, simplified single‑pane management that freed IT staff for strategic work, and dramatic storage efficiency (188.3 TB logical reduced to 7.8 TB physical).

Surrey Place Centre

Phil Vlach

Director of ICT