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SAP Data Center Consolidation Mediaprint moves to active-active virtualized data centers

Challenge Disparate storage infrastructure did not provide adequate

performance, availability or virtualization support Lack of redundancy put company at risk of slow recovery

Solution EMC VNX, FAST 1st VPLEX Metro VMware

Results Improved SAP application response times by 300 percent 500 percent increase in data warehouse performance Consolidated 20 storage arrays to 2 on EMC VNX Five-nines availability though active-active data centers

Applications SAP Oracle Oracle RAC

“SAP is very important to us because we’re doing our advertising management in SAP. With EMC VNX and FAST Cache we have seen in some applications 300 percent improvement in response times.”

FERDINAND KARNERHead of Systems And Base

Services

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Flash 1st Boosts SAP Performance 95%James Hardie accelerates performance, provisioning, recovery

Challenge Rapidly growing data growth impacting performance Sprawling physical infrastructure overwhelming lead IT

resources

Solution EMC VNX/VNXe/FAST 1st VMware EMC RecoverPoint

Results Reduce response times from more than 20 milliseconds to

less than 1 millisecond Accelerated SAP server deployment from months to days Enable 4 hour RTO to 1 hour RPO for streamlined recovery

Applications SAP ERP, BW, Netweaver Microsoft SQL Server,

Exchange, SharePoint

“EMC’s strong relationship with SAP weighed heavily in our decision. We’re running at 25 percent utilization in our storage instead of 99 percent like before, allowing us to grow without hitting performance roadblocks.”

STEVE KILLANEnterprise Server

Manager

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Improve SAP Service Delivery On vBlockWest Pharma cuts deployment times and optimizes SAP backups

Challenge Global expansion and data center growth required

consolidation of IT and greater data protection Tape based backup could not backup SAP within 24 hours

Solution vBlock Systems Avamar and Data Domain RecoverPoint

Results Reduced data center footprint by 50 percent and reduced

amount of hardware support needed with vBlock Systems Accelerated SAP service delivery from months to a few hours Cut SAP backup times from days to hours

Applications SAP ERP Microsoft Exchange and

SharePoint

“With the Vblock System our SAP team had Supply Chain Management live in less than 90 days versus six months previously. With Data Domain we have reduced SAP backup from 26 hours to 3 hours.”

JAMES HOUSTONVice President

Shared IT Services