Customer Stories

Cubic Mission Solutions

Location: United States

Impact of virtualized software on national defense

About

Cubic Mission Solutions is a tactical defense integrator responsible for providing networked Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defense and intelligence communities.

Challenges

Reduce weight and size of U.S. military tactical mobile computing system.

Reduce power consumption to survive in rugged, extreme environments.

Reduce complexity of building and managing systems in field environments.

Solution

Replaced redundant network-attached disk arrays with server-attached virtual storage and hyper-converged infrastructure.

Outcome

Reduced product weight by 75 percent, improved storage performance by 10x, and extended battery runtime from 18 minutes to 2 hours.

Increased IOPS performance by 10x.

Reduced storage build process from 9 hours to 23 minutes.

Products

VMware vSphere

VMware vSAN