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Software provider trusts its Big Data business to EMC and Microsoft
Challenges
 Business shift from strictly software to Software as a Service
 Demanding SLAs for Fortune 100 customers
Solutions
 EMC VNX unified storage
 EMC RecoverPoint
MICHAEL STEINEKE
Vice President of IT
“With our agile EMC and Microsoft infrastructure, we
definitely get a competitive advantage because we
can offer new services without incurring the time
and expense of changing the infrastructure.”
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Applications
 Microsoft Hyper-V
 Microsoft Windows Server
2012 R2
 Microsoft SQL Server 2014
 Microsoft Exchange
 Microsoft SharePoint,
Microsoft Visual Studio,
Microsoft Lync, System Center
Results
 Delivered excellent performance to data-intensive applications
running on Microsoft SQL Server databases
 Streamlined delivery of customer environments from one month to
one week
 Reduced time to manage storage from hours to minutes
 Supported 50 percent more business initiatives compared to three
years ago
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EMC VNX2 unified storage improves performance of critical Microsoft Dynamics system
Challenges
 Existing storage was near capacity
 New storage infrastructure was needed to support virtualization
and provide increased performance for Microsoft Dynamics and
other critical applications
Solutions
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MEREL JOHNSON
Systems Engineer
“Ask anyone in IT, and they'll tell you that we are
always trying to increase capacity, increase
performance, and decrease costs. With the VNX2
platforms, we've achieved all of those goals.”
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EMC VNX2 unified storage
EMC FAST Suite
EMC RecoverPoint
VMware vSphere
Applications
 Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
Dynamics EX,
SQL Server,
SharePoint,
Exchange
Results
 Reduced storage costs by 20 percent while doubling capacity
 Provided three to five times performance improvement for
Microsoft Dynamics
 Enhanced data protection and DR capabilities through replication
and deduplication
 Enabled lean IT staff to efficiently support 800 users
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Lending company decreases cost and increases SQL performance with VNX & RecoverPoint
Challenges
 Existing storage lacked scalability, performance, and management
tools
 Unreliable replication solution
 Tape-based backup systems were expensive and prone to risk
Solution
Applications
performance
 VMware
vSphere by 50 percent
 VNX
unified storage “We have increased
FRED
GORDON
on virtualized SQL block data and by 60 to 70
Systems
 Microsoft Exchange
 Total Engineer
Efficiency Pack
percent on eDocument file data. When we
 Microsoft
SQL
Serverover, our
moved the virtualized
SQL
clusters
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Microsoft
SharePoint
CIO asked, ‘When can you move the CRM over
to the VNX? I want the same performance.″
Results
 Increased performance by up to 70 percent
 Reduced OPEX and CAPEX through improved storage utilization and
lower power and cooling costs
 Reduced RPO from 24 hours to one minute
 Reduced RTO from 12 hours to zero
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Global Construction Company drives dramatic business expansion with EMC VNX unified storage
Challenges
 Business doubled its size in 12 months
 Data center consolidation driving accelerated virtualization
Solution
Manager of IT Operations,
Global Construction Company
“A prime reason for choosing EMC over NetApp was
that VNX is such a great fit for virtualization. With all
the automation tools and tight integration with
VMware, VNX is far easier than NetApp when it
comes to spinning up and managing virtual
machines.”
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EMC VNX unified storage
EMC RecoverPoint
EMC Replication Manager
VMware vSphere
VMware vCenter SRM
Applications
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Oracle PeopleSoft
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SharePoint
Results
 Accelerated virtualization—from 70 to 99 percent
 Reduced PeopleSoft batch processing from 10 hours to 30 or 40
minutes
 Reduced PeopleSoft recovery time from up to 10 hours to 15
minutes
 Reduced time to create test environments from minutes to hours
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Large community bank protects its critical Microsoft applications and supports rapid growth with EMC
Challenges
 Existing storage did not support virtualization
 Large number of physical servers had become difficult for existing
IT staff to manage
 Full backups were seldom completed over a weekend and ran well
into Monday, delaying access to critical data
Solutions
Applications
EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure:  Microsoft SQL Server
databases, dBASE databases,
 EMC VNX unified storage
Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft
 VMware vSphere
SharePoint, Fiserv financial
 HP x86 blade servers
software suite, and Business
 Brocade network server
Analytics
BOB LAVOIE
Vice President, Information Systems
“We chose EMC VSPEX because we knew that
it could provide 24/7 availability of our
applications and peace of mind, knowing that
we always have a full backup of our data
available without having to intervene.”
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Results
 Provided business agility and scalability
 Optimized performance of critical applications and maximized
storage resources
 Ensured availability of applications
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After a major disaster, EMC RecoverPoint returns this large hedge fund’s Microsoft environment to normal operation quickly
Challenges
 Need for improved recovery-time objective (RTO) and recovery
point objective (RPO)
 Need for near-realtime replication
Solutions
 EMC RecoverPoint
 EMC VNX unified storage
 VMware vSphere
JEFFREY MILLER
Chief Technology Officer
“With the ability to get back online and operational
quickly in a disaster, we're able to focus on what
we do best—investing and making our clients as
profitable as possible.”
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Applications
 Microsoft Exchange
 Microsoft SQL Server
Results
 Enabled near-realtime replication
 Provided the ability to rapidly restore data to any point in time
 Provided competitive advantage through ability to recover
quickly from disasters
 Reduced OPEX through virtualization
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