A leading Italian outdoor-lighting manufacturer replaced three ageing physical servers with a single virtualized Syneto platform, hardening data security and adding effortless disaster recovery.
Founded in 1973, Simes is a modern company dedicated to the production of outdoor lighting fixtures. Under the motto "Light for architecture", it has grown into an international market leader, designing intelligent, sustainable and recyclable LED products with very high lighting performance. Its entire production cycle takes place in Italy, in Franciacorta — a sign of the company's deep roots in its native territory and its commitment to Made in Italy.
Simes works alongside architects, landscapers, urban planners and engineers, so the projects of its lighting-engineering office, its corporate email, and every file users save to the server are strategic and business-critical. The company needed to replace three physical servers with a virtual infrastructure, and wanted technology capable of strengthening data security — particularly against cryptolockers — together with real-time protection and an easily achievable disaster-recovery plan.
The lighting-engineering office's designs are the company's most critical asset and must never be lost or held hostage.
Corporate email is business-critical for daily collaboration with architects, planners and engineers.
All files users save to the server are important and strategic, demanding reliable, recoverable storage.
Introduced to Syneto by a trusted IT partner, Simes evaluated alternatives from HP and Dell before choosing Syneto. With a cost in line with the other solutions, Syneto stood out as the most reliable and easy to manage, certified by a fully integrated platform. Today Syneto has replaced the company's previous servers 100%, with virtual machines delivering every service the business depends on.
Three standalone physical servers were retired and replaced 100% by virtual machines running on a single Syneto platform.
The VMs deliver file sharing, corporate email, antivirus and antispam servers, and the Autodesk license manager.
Easily snapshottable storage strengthens data security against cryptolockers and enables real-time protection at competitive cost.
A disaster-recovery plan that is simple to implement, with fast and straightforward restore procedures.
A cost in line with competing offers from HP and Dell, combined with the reliability and ease of management of a fully integrated solution, made Syneto the clear choice.
The immediately visible benefits were the ease of administration, simpler backup management and the extremely short snapshot restore times. With every business service now virtualized on a single integrated platform, Syneto replaced the previous servers entirely — no further expansion is needed.
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| Plan | Response | Coverage | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | NBD — 8×5 | Software + hardware | Branch offices, test & dev |
| Business | 4 h — 24×7 | Software + hardware | Production workloads |
| Mission-Critical | 1 h — 24×7 | Software + hardware + TAM | Business-critical sites, DR |
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This study covers Simes' migration from three standalone physical servers to a consolidated Syneto virtualization and data-protection platform.
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