Sydney firm The IT Consultancy Group has scored the first Australian customer for Simplivity, the up-and-coming hyper-converged vendor attracting millions of dollars from investors.
The channel provider, which was No.3 in the 2011 CRN Fast50 and No.34 in 2013, migrated the Sydney-based Credit and Investment Ombudsman (CIO), which has more than 18,000 participants including credit unions, mortgage brokers, and financial planners.
The IT Consultancy Group, which appeared in the CRN Fast50 in 2011 and 2013, moved the customer from physical servers in a “cluttered” data centre with aging hardware and software to Simplivity’s OmniCube, which combines computation, storage, networking, backup, WAN optimisation and other functions beneath a VMware hypervisor.
A pair of 2U, modular Simplivity OmniCube CN-2200s were deployed in the primary data centre and a separate unit for disaster recovery at a co-located site.
As well as being the first publicly announced customer for Simplivity in Australia, which launched its local operation in August 2014, it was a first for the ombudsman, which didn’t previously use virtualisation.
“We just didn’t have the human capital to manage VMware running on a complex SAN with traditional servers,” said CIO’s IT manager Matt Grech.
Simplivity is one of several vendors racing to earn market share in the hyper-converged technology space. The vendor recently raised US$175 million through a funding round, and has more than 400 employees around the world.
Executives are currently on a “world tour”, with founder and global chief executive officer Doron Kempel and vice president Asia Pacific and Japan, Scott Morris, presently in Australia.
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