Case Study: The Neenan Company achieves enterprise-class disaster recovery and 75% performance boost with HPE SimpliVity OmniCube

The Neenan Company - Customer Case Study

The Neenan Company (design-build firm, Fort Collins, CO) and partner NexCore Group (healthcare real estate, Denver, CO) faced growing data footprints and an aging DR approach based on LTO tapes and Veeam that left 40 mission‑critical VMs at risk of up to 48 hours of downtime, weekly backup windows, rising upgrade costs, and vulnerability to onsite disasters. A small IT team needed a simpler, faster, and more reliable disaster recovery and infrastructure refresh without ballooning annual expenses.

They deployed a SimpliVity OmniCube federation (2+2) across the two sites 60 miles apart, replacing racks of hardware with a hyperconverged Data Virtualization Platform. Within days all VMs were virtualized and protected, yielding a 75% performance boost, up to 24x faster backups, 100:1–200:1 capacity savings via inline deduplication/compression, elimination of more than $30K in annual upgrade/DR costs, and recovery times reduced from days to hours.

The Neenan Company

George Dial

IT Manager, The Neenan Company