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title: Case Study | Uniphar Group & ProCloud
description: Replacing expensive, inefficient and complex legacy IT infrastructure Uniphar with scalable, cost-effective hyperconverged infrastructure.
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** Client Success Story **

# Scalable IT infrastructure for a complex, global *pharma distribution* business

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** Overview **

## Project at a glance

### Our client

Uniphar Group - Pharma & Medtech Manufacture & Distribution

### The challenge

Uniphar needed a strong and efficient IT infrastructure to support its growth plans and continue delivering for its clients. However, its existing legacy IT systems were inefficient, costly to manage, and lacked proper oversight. Additionally, the company’s disaster recovery processes were inadequate due to the complexity of its organisation and IT systems.

### ProCloud's solution

A bespoke hyperconverged infrastructure based on HPE's cutting-edge SimpliVity platform, automating processes and replacing inefficient and overcomplicated systems and connections.

### Outcomes we delivered

- **60 seconds** to backup or restore a 1TB machine
- **50% cost savings** compared to the legacy SAN
- **80%** physical footprint savings
- **60%** software licensing savings
- **90% data efficiency** savings across storage and backup

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**Challenge**

## Expensive, inefficient and complex *legacy infrastructure*

Uniphar provides sourcing and distribution solutions to pharma and medtech manufacturers. The business has a worldwide workforce of 3,200, is a trusted partner to over 200 manufacturers and delivers to 160 countries.

To continue with its ambitious plans and to maintain excellent client delivery and service standards, Uniphar needed a new, robust and efficient IT infrastructure. This would enable better connection and collaboration in a large, global workforce. More automation would improve efficiency and cost effectiveness as well as improving the use of data for reporting and decision-making.

To maximise the benefits of the latest technology, Uniphar's IT leaders wanted to pave the way for full digital transformation with a future-proofed infrastructure platform. Uniphar also needed to improve its disaster recovery processes to match the scale and complexity of the current organisation.  

As in most successful, well-established organisations, Uniphar had a lot of legacy IT infrastructure. Systems and applications had developed and expanded incrementally to meet evolving business needs. There was no clear oversight of how everything integrated and worked together. Managing this unwieldy infrastructure was a drain on time, resources and budgets.

 The hyperconverged infrastructure solution from ProCloud addressed the challenge of modernising our IT, from a position of having many legacy systems that were essential to operations but costly to maintain and no longer fit for our ambitious growth plans.

Neville John

IT Manager, Uniphar

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**Solution**

## A proven approach to HCI with *HPE SimpliVity*

ProCloud's team spent time understanding the nature of Uniphar's operation and IT needs before proposing a solution. It was clear to us that there was an exciting opportunity for Uniphar to dramatically improve efficiency and simplify control with HCI.

We developed a bespoke infrastructure solution for Uniphar using HPE SimpliVity. Our long experience deploying this leading-edge technology meant we could demonstrate the benefits in practice, from established and successful hyperconvergence projects for a range of clients. Uniphar's IT team saw tangible evidence of the efficiency gains and savings they could expect, which gave them strong confidence to proceed.

ProCloud radically simplified Uniphar’s existing data centre infrastructure by hyperconverging the entire legacy IT footprint below the hypervisor onto three x 2U HPE ProLiant Servers, enabling high availability and disaster recovery. The new hyperconverged infrastructure was integrated via an on-premise StoreOnce backup appliance, using the Microsoft Azure cloud to deliver offsite data backup.

 Uniphar's strong growth and trusted client relationships rely on scalable and high-performing IT infrastructure. To support Uniphar's success, we combined HPE's cutting-edge SimpliVity technology plus the ProCloud team's collective knowledge and personal commitment, to deliver a project that we're all proud of.

Niall O’Donohoe

Managing Director, ProCloud

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**Results**

## Enterprise infrastructure for *maximum efficiency* and future *global growth*

The new, hyperconverged solution has finally allowed Uniphar to do away with the legacy infrastructure that was proving so ineffective and inefficient. Now, Uniphar has freed up IT resources and dramatically reduced IT management costs by automating and semi-automating many processes, including workstation provisioning.

With centralised management based on universal VMWare skills, Uniphar's IT team has full oversight and control of all its systems, applications, connections and data. It's simple and quick to initiate routine tasks and maintain high performance levels.

A leading disaster recovery solution is built in, with protection and resilience to meet the demands of a growing, global company transacting with hundreds of demanding clients and partners.

Key benefits of the new infrastructure include:

- Ability to **manage** core IT infrastructure and virtual machines from a **single dashboard**
- Robust disaster recovery protocols and **100% data availability**
- Significant cost savings: **80% physical footprint reduction**, **50% savings compared to the legacy SAN** and a **60% reduction in software licensing** costs
- Hyperconverged infrastructure that **supports critical real-time digital capabilities** such as production planning with demand forecasting, global consignment tracking, enablement of industrial IoT and document and data traceability.

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** In the words of the client **

“Implemented and supported by ProCloud, with our new hyperconverged platform we now have industry-leading virtualisation, simple and effective centralised management, with significant improvements in performance, scalability and control.”

Neville John

IT Manager, Uniphar

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