Case Study: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) achieves reliable, scalable and cost‑efficient IT with Pivot3 hyperconverged infrastructure

Professional Institute Leverages Hyperconverged Infrastructure to Ensure Top-Notch Experience for Clients

The Chartered Institute for Professional Development (CIPD) is a 145,000‑member professional body for HR and learning professionals based in Wimbledon, London. An aging storage infrastructure experienced weekend failures that threatened member services, payments and the institute’s reputation, and rising maintenance costs made replacement urgent.

Working with Servium, CIPD deployed a Pivot3 hyperconverged infrastructure—mixing HCI appliances and storage nodes—to deliver reliable, scalable performance at a lower cost (saving hundreds of thousands of pounds with an estimated 18‑month payback). The new platform reduced power and licensing spend, cut an overnight batch process time by 30% to improve reporting and availability, and made it simple to add capacity as data needs grow.

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Robert Campbell

Head of Digital Workplace and Technology