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Organiza on City of Greenwood Village Industry State Government and Public Sector Business Challenges Establish a storage strategy to manage data growth and support virtualiza on ini a ves Technical Environment EMC VSPEX, including two EMC VNX5200 systems VMware vSOM Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers The Benefits During the first quarter of 2014, OneNeck began the implementa on of the virtual pla orm and then VNX. While on site, the deployment team configured the equipment and got everything set up and running properly. OneNeck also moved Greenwood Village's file server and helped the organiza on do the ini al virtualiza on of their servers with minimum drama and no down me. In the months following deployment, Greenwood Village was seeing posi ve results. Where once they were restricted by a limited number of drives per space, now the servers could scale with ease. Plus, they can manage everything through a single dashboard, providing the visibility execu ves need to analyze current status, project future growth and make smart business decisions. Greenwood Village can add servers either for produc on or tes ng in no me, which is important for a small organiza on that doesn't have spare servers wai ng to be put into produc on. Thanks to OneNeck's system design, Greenwood Village can also build a server in parallel to the produc on server, and once the upgraded server is ready to go, they can power down the old server and ac vate the new server with minimal impact to users during the switchover. "Through OneNeck's support and guidance, we have been able to consolidate our disparate resources onto a single, integrated pla orm powered by EMC, VMware and Cisco," concluded Edwards. "With a secure storage solu on in place and disaster recovery plans that will only improve over me, we're able to scale and meet the needs of the organiza on as we grow into the future." The Next Phase Now that Greenwood Village has a strong storage and virtualiza on solu on, OneNeck is con nuing to work with the organiza on on a backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. A DR site has been established and the two organiza ons are working together to build a reliable plan. In early tes ng, Greenwood Village is already able to recover a server and its data in less than 10 minutes. Before, if they lost a server, it could take days to rebuild. About OneNeck IT Solutions OneNeck IT Solu ons LLC offers hybrid IT solu ons including cloud and hos ng solu ons, managed services, enterprise applica on management, advanced IT services, IT hardware and top- er data centers in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon and Wisconsin. OneNeck's team of technology professionals manage secure, world-class, hybrid IT infrastructures and applica ons for businesses around the country. OneNeck is a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS]. TDS provides wireless; cable and wireline broadband, TV and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately six million customers na onwide through its businesses U.S. Cellular, TDS Telecom, OneNeck IT Solu ons LLC, and TDS Broadband Service LLC. Visit tdsinc.com. City of Greenwood Village Summary Beyond proximity, however, OneNeck was an appropriate fit in many other ways – a very important one being their extensive experience with State and Local Government and Educa on (SLED) accounts. In fact, OneNeck has spent more than 20 years servicing public sector customers. This experience would prove incredibly useful in this case since a Western States Contrac ng Alliance (WSCA) government purchasing contract was used as a procurement vehicle. In addi on to improving its storage infrastructure, Greenwood Village was also ge ng ready to upgrade their Cisco Unified Communica ons Manager (Call Manager). Since Cisco's typical implementa on is on a VMware® pla orm, Greenwood Village took this opportunity to get their feet wet with virtualiza on. The team wanted a single-pane-of-glass dashboard, which is something VMware's vSOM product could deliver. To easily manage the en re storage and communica ons environment, OneNeck designed a reference architecture – a turnkey solu on – that would enable Greenwood Village to seamlessly switch from EMC to VMware's interface. No plug-ins were needed – this complete SAN solu on would be a true integra on. OneNeck demonstrated the ease of use and performance capabili es, which gave complete confidence to the IT team at Greenwood Village. OneNeck.com 855.ONENECK Part #9.2.4_CSCGV_0116_v2 ©2016 OneNeck IT Solutions LLC. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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