HOPKINTON, Mass., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation
(NYSE:EMC) today announced that Partena, a Brussels-based social services organization
that provides 1.2 million individuals and 60,000 companies with
payroll and human resource management, employment insurance,
benefits management and other services, has transformed its IT
infrastructure with EMC® VNX® unified storage
and EMC VPLEX® virtual storage to address exponential
data growth. Partena credits EMC with significant cost savings and
eliminating infrastructure downtime.
Customer Benefits:
- Improved Application Availability — By running
applications simultaneously across two active-active data centers
with EMC VPLEX, Partena has eliminated downtime — a reduction of
three hours per month to zero.
- Cost Savings — Partena has reduced its operational and
capital expenditures by 60% through virtualization, providing more
resources for projects that drive business growth and increase
customer satisfaction.
- Faster Application Deployment — Partena is able to roll
out new applications in only a few days versus the one month it
typically took before — a 90% reduction in deployment time.
- Streamlined Administration — Tight integration between
VNX and VMware has reduced administration time by 50%, freeing
Partena's IT staff to focus on more critical projects.
Customer Challenges and Solution:
Partena's storage infrastructure was expanding rapidly while
government regulations and customer service-level agreements (SLAs)
that specified lengthy data retention periods and high data
availability requirements were putting added pressures on the
infrastructure. To help improve availability, enable faster
deployment and reduce expenses, Partena selected EMC VNX and EMC
VPLEX.
Since implementing EMC technologies, Partena has achieved
significant improvements in infrastructure scalability, efficiency
and application availability. The company has also virtualized 90%
of its server infrastructure using VMware vSphere. All of Partena's
applications and databases, including Microsoft SQL Servers and
Oracle databases, reside on EMC VNX unified storage. To enable
disaster recovery, Partena uses EMC VPLEX virtual storage to run
its critical applications simultaneously across two data centers
several hundred meters apart. Partena also leverages VMware
View for desktop virtualization.
Customer Quotes:
Philippe Picalausa, IT Manager, Partena
"We operate under strict SLAs and government regulations that
require us to generate payroll and other employee services within
specified time periods. With EMC VPLEX, we're able to run all our
applications in an active-active mode across two separate data
centers. If a server fails, the application continues to run at the
alternate site without any disruption to our users and
customers."
"Our EMC infrastructure is absolutely critical to the smooth and
reliable operation of our business. In fact, since we've been using
EMC storage, we haven't had any storage-related downtime. Now we've
added VPLEX, enabling us to increase security and protection by
eliminating infrastructure downtime."
"The tight integration between our VMware and VNX environments
has reduced administration time by 50%, which in turn has freed our
IT staff to focus on more critical projects. Rapid
virtualization combined with VNX's excellent performance and
simplified management has reduced our IT operational and capital
expenditures by 60%."
"Our business is much more agile now that we've virtualized with
VMware and EMC. We can deploy new applications in a few days versus
the month it took us before. That's a 90% reduction in time. It's
very easy to create proofs of concepts, test scenarios and other
environments to develop new services and features that help expand
the business and improve customer satisfaction."
"When we initially virtualized desktops at the branch level, we
discovered how much easier it is to manage virtual desktops
compared to physical PCs and laptops. For example, we can
distribute upgrades faster with just a few clicks. And users can
boot up their virtual desktops more quickly."
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about EMC VNX and EMC VPLEX
- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn
and ECN
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and
service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a
service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.
Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the
journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store,
manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information
– in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional
information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
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