Armstrong International Leverages Hyperconvergence to Shape a Sustainable Future
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Armstrong International is a fifth-generation family business, based in India and serving clients in a wide range of industries across the hospitality, petroleum, and food-and- beverage industries. Their client base includes industry biggies such as Hoegaarden beer for steam collector flow management, to Shell petroleum for steam collection optimization, to the Marriott Group of hotels for sustainable operational maintenance.
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| Customer Name: Armstrong International Industry: Energy and utilities Location: India Number of Employees: 3000+ |
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Seamless IT operations so think tank can focus on future innovation
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A hyperconvergence infrastructure (HCI) that meets business goals
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Topology transformation
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Resources released to focus on core business
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Enhanced performance and consistent latency
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A unified management approach that delivers better business insights
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Today, the world is more environmentally conscious than ever before. In the wake of the global pandemic of 2020 and fueled by the emergence of sustainable products across industries, businesses are increasingly having to pay attention to smart and green solutions to achieve carbon neutrality and optimize their energy use. The world – including everything from electric vehicles for transportation to optimized domestic power metering solutions - is seeing a shift to sustainable energy. Many small and large companies are currently operating in this area of sustainability, and Armstrong International is one such company that is dedicated to the cause of thermal utility management. To reduce energy use and emissions and achieve sustainability with decarbonization, Armstrong International is a fifth-generation family business, based in India and serving clients in a wide range of industries across the hospitality, petroleum, and food-and-beverage industries. Their client base includes industry biggies such as Hoegaarden beer for steam collector flow management, to Shell petroleum for steam collection optimization, to the Marriott Group of hotels for sustainable operational maintenance.
To achieve its goal of autopilot IT, Armstrong International needed to kickstart a hyperconvergence journey. According to Siva Ramu, Manager – Systems, Armstrong International needed a highly efficient and simplified IT infrastructure, where virtualization, server, and storage management is easy, with a focus on zero-compromise performance. In other words, the company required a unified infrastructure that could integrate computing, networking, and storage through an easy-to-manage, cloud-based solution.
Cisco’s hyperconvergence offering, Cisco HyperFlex™, was the best fit for Armstrong International. The company was quick to realize that unlike any other solution in the market, the Cisco HyperFlex platform is faster to deploy, simpler to manage, and easier to scale and provides a unified pool of resources to power multiple applications. Additionally, the built-in automation capabilities of HyperFlex makes management simple and more efficient and provides a single, unified management approach that delivers better network insights and results.
“The Cisco HyperFlex product helped Armstrong a lot. We are really happy to work with Cisco for our Hyperconvergence needs.”
-Siva Ramu, Manager – Systems, Armstrong International
An excited Siva told us, following the deployment, “Thanks, Cisco, for giving us HyperFlex. I appreciate Cisco for getting this to us so expeditiously.”
The things that led to Cisco HyperFlex becoming the best fit for Armstrong International’s requirements include the innate features of the solution - simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency across the IT topology.
Cisco HyperFlex helped Armstrong International integrate their storage, servers, and networking switches and manage them in a unified manner. This gave the company increased simplicity and flexibility in comparison to piecemeal solutions. The HyperFlex solution was based on a simple deployment architecture and could be installed in a few days with no extra effort from its IT staff. Additionally, the Fabric Interconnects provided efficient network connectivity for the HCI solution, by integrating and simplifying touchpoints and interactions.
Today, Armstrong International has at its disposal, a connected dashboard that can monitor cluster components transparently along with providing a unified view of its inventory. HyperFlex also offers Armstrong International the choice and flexibility of scale for storage, compute-only nodes, or a single converged node. Finally, by using machine learning algorithms, the company now has an intelligent and dynamic data distribution framework across all nodes in the cluster, alleviating performance bottlenecks while providing consistent latency and enhanced performance.
By deploying Cisco HyperFlex, Armstrong International is now able to reaffirm its focus on creating a more sustainable world by helping corporations become more environmentally friendly and reduce their carbon footprint. This was made possible by transforming their IT infrastructure and making it secure, simple, and easy to manage.
Learn more about Cisco Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) here.