PetSure Turns to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Deliver Remote Care to Half a Million ‘Fur Babies’ in Australia Amid COVID...
July 08 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
- Industry experts report a surge in pet ownership and adoption
in Australia amid COVID-19 lockdown
- PetSure provides pet insurance products for nearly half a
million Australians with pets
- HPE Nimble Storage dHCI helped to shift entire workforce and
pet services online
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced PetSure, the
leading provider of pet insurance products in Australia, has
selected HPE Nimble Storage dHCI to deliver remote veterinary care
and enable future growth.
Since the start of 2020, there has been a surge in pet ownership
and adoption in Australia amid COVID-19 lockdown conditions, which
has resulted in the need for quick and thorough advice on a pet’s
health, needs and insurance. PetSure needed to shift employees to a
virtual office environment and support remote veterinary care with
services to help curb the spread of COVID-19 without compromising
on pet care.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, a disaggregated HCI platform, enabled
PetSure to deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution
that is capable of managing unpredictable workload volumes and
complex infrastructure needs to deliver fast and reliable remote
access. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI also aided in controlling IT costs
to support business continuity strategies and avoid financial
strain.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI was introduced in June 2019 and is now
available to customers as a service, through HPE GreenLake.
“With HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, we can now provide a superior VDI
solution to support changes to our business model and our 400+
employees working remotely due to COVID-19,” said Rob Collins, Head
of Infrastructure and Service Management at PetSure. “In the past,
we were using AWS for our VDI workloads, but the costs were too
high for us. With HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, we were able to reduce
our operating costs by 50 per cent, improve our performance 2X for
our VDI workloads, achieve 50 per cent faster application
provisioning and improve efficiency by 70 per cent.”
Pet insurance has grown by double-digits in Australia in the
past five years, according to PetSure. The company predicts this
trajectory will continue into the next decade as pets make the
shift from backyard into the home to become valuable members of the
family. The ‘humanisation’ of pets has also led to an increase in
conditions such as obesity and diabetes. To be able to keep pace
with this trend, PetSure sought the expertise of HPE and partner
AC3 to future-proof its enterprise IT infrastructure and ensure
bandwidth capability, while also shifting to remote work.
“The COVID-19 global pandemic is an unprecedented situation that
is affecting all businesses, our communities, and our way of life,”
said Stephen Bovis, Vice President and Managing Director for HPE
South Pacific. “HPE is here to help our customers bring together
the right expertise and technology solutions to meet their most
immediate challenges in this time. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides
the IT performance and payment flexibility needed for Australian
businesses to rapidly activate mobile productivity and desktop
virtualisation to overcome the business risks posed by
COVID-19.”
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
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Orsi Sulyok, HPE orsi.sulyok@hpe.com
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