Case Study: Wausau Coated Products achieves data-center-in-a-box agility, sub-hour DR and 101:1 data efficiency with HPE SimpliVity

Wausau Coated Products - Customer Case Study

Wausau Coated Products, a mid-sized Wisconsin manufacturer of specialty coated papers and foils, needed to replace a complex legacy infrastructure supporting a 100% VMware environment across two fiber-connected sites. IT leadership required simplified management, 24×7 uptime for critical ERP and production systems, robust backup/DR and business continuity, predictable scaling, better performance under load, and lower operational costs.

Wausau deployed a SimpliVity OmniCube federation across primary and DR sites, migrating all VMs with no downtime and running production within 48 hours. The converged “data-center-in-a-box” delivered built‑in backup and remote replication, sub‑hour recovery objectives, eliminated third‑party backup and legacy maintenance costs, and produced dramatic data efficiency (101:1, ~749 TB saved), simpler operations, seamless vCenter integration, and straightforward scale‑out.

Wausau Coated Products

Chad Lemmer

IT Manager