Blue Turtle commends Hewlett Packard as a 2016 CIO 100 award winner by using Delphix technology

Issued by Blue Turtle Technologies
Johannesburg & Menlo Park, California, 01 Sep 2016

Blue Turtle's leading data as a service partner Delphix has aided Hewlett Packard in being named a recipient of the 2016 CIO 100. The 29th annual award programme recognises organisations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in IT.

Breakups are never easy - but what if you're trying to split a $100 billion company into two independent leaders? Who manages the IT infrastructure?

Fact sheet

Solution: Delphix

Industry: IT

Provider: Blue Turtle Technologies

User: Hewlitt Packard

When HP was facing a corporate separation, it needed to divide 2 800 applications, 300 000 employees, 75 000 application interfaces and their network connectivity, 570 projects and 50 000 servers1. In the company's 2014 Q4 earnings call, CEO Meg Whitman called this undertaking "a big and complicated separation - the biggest ever done. This is not a spin-off, but two Fortune 50 companies, both with about $57 billion in revenue."

Under the leadership of CIO Scott Spradley, HPE enlisted a team of its top talent to tackle this Herculean challenge - one that involved splitting six data centers2 - with the help of Delphix. Now, Hewlitt Packard has been named one of this year's CIO 100 winners for its successful efforts. Read how CIO summarises the project here.

Mahesh Shah, General Manager of M&As at HPE, said of this undertaking: "Infrastructure, data and security - those were the most critical elements and the most complex elements for us to go and separate into two companies."

All three of those discrete challenges are areas in which Delphix excels. Although data virtualisation had never before been used to support a corporate separation, much less one of this size, HPE leadership recognised conventional methods would not be fast enough to meet their aggressive deadline. They looked towards a relatively new technology for this massive, mission-critical project, and by the project's conclusion, the HPE team had applied Delphix software through multiple stages, including data conversion, regression testing, business continuity, data archiving and legal hold.

HPE achieved four major benefits through its engagement with Delphix:

1. A dramatic reduction in application downtime;
2. Retention of a complete copy of the applications, with 70% data compression;
3. Disaster recovery capabilities to "roll back" the applications in case of accidental data deletion; and
4. Reduced infrastructure requirements of over 50%.

HPE continued to amaze watchers-on and their internal team alike. Spradley explained: "Nobody ever thought that we would do design in a month, or that we would do build in a month, or that we would write 172 000 [System Integration Test] cases, that we would test 74 000 interfaces, that we would split up 50 000 production servers in the amount of time. You typically build 900 servers in a year, maybe 1 000 for an IT organisation. We built 4 000 servers in six weeks."

We'd like to congratulate HPE for this exciting win. This talented and hard working team was able to execute this split efficiently, in nine months, with only two hours of downtime. For a process that could have taken years, and with a minimum of 16 costly hours of downtime, the time and cost savings are nothing short of spectacular.

We're proud that Hewlett Packard's efforts in using Delphix's technology have been recognised at the CIO 100 Awards," stated Tommy Erlank, Application & Data Management Business Manager at Blue Turtle. "Hewlett Packard, being selected for this award along with top global companies, speaks volumes about our chosen technology - as the CIO 100 awards continuously honour the innovative use of technology that delivers genuine business value. Delphix's renowned technology offering successfully delivers full environments for development, testing and reporting needs - at a fraction of physical costs and complexity, and we are honoured to have it as an offering in the southern African region."

More information on this and other Delphix use cases in southern Africa can be found at www.blueturtle.co.za or info@blueturtle.co.za.

Source:

[1] http://www.computerdealernews.com/news/hps-split-is-at-80-per-cent-completion/42500
[2] Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8d2d1b_WLM

Blue Turtle

Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimising, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost-effective delivery of new technology initiatives. With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures employing innovative software products, backed by 'best-practice' implementation services. Blue Turtle's strategy leverages 'best-in-class' software products brought together from leading international and South African software providers to deliver compelling and cost-effective technology management solutions to customers. For more information: www.blueturtle.co.za.

Delphix

Delphix is the market leader in data as a service, which helps enterprises accelerate application projects by 50%, including ERP rollouts, custom development, and migrations to private and public clouds. Delphix provides its DaaS platform as on-premises or cloud software that automatically delivers the right data to the right team at the right time, instead of relying on complex processes and multiple IT teams to manually move unsecured data across systems. Over 20% of the Fortune 100 use Delphix to deliver data 99% faster across development, testing, and reporting environments, driving dramatic increases in productivity while improving data security. Delphix is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices around the world.

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