CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY FOR EXCHANGE & SHAREPOINT

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CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY

FOR EXCHANGE &

SHAREPOINT

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“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.”

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

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

Applications Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft Windows Server

2012 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft

Visual Studio, Microsoft Lync, System Center

MICHAEL STEINEKEVice President of IT

EDGENET


“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.”

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 EMC VNX2 unified storage EMC FAST Suite EMC RecoverPoint VMware vSphere

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

Applications Microsoft Dynamics EX,

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange

MEREL JOHNSONSystems Engineer

SOUTHEASTERN CONTAINER


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 VNX unified storage Total Efficiency Pack

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

Applications VMware vSphere Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SharePoint

“We have increased performance by 50 percent on virtualized SQL block data and by 60 to 70 percent on eDocument file data. When we moved the virtualized SQL clusters over, our CIO asked, ‘When can you move the CRM over to the VNX? I want the same performance.″

FRED GORDONSystems Engineer

FARM CREDIT MID-AMERICA


“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.”

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 EMC VNX unified storage EMC RecoverPoint EMC Replication Manager VMware vSphere VMware vCenter SRM

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

Applications Oracle PeopleSoft Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SharePoint

Manager of IT Operations,Global Construction Company

GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY


“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.”

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

SolutionsEMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure: EMC VNX unified storage VMware vSphere HP x86 blade servers Brocade network server

Results Provided business agility and scalability Optimized performance of critical applications and maximized

storage resources Ensured availability of applications

Applications Microsoft SQL Server

databases, dBASE databases, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Fiserv financial software suite, and Business Analytics

BOB LAVOIEVice President, Information Systems

BAR HARBOR BANK & TRUST


“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.”

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

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

Applications Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SQL Server

JEFFREY MILLERChief Technology Officer

SERENGETI ASSET MANAGEMENT

CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY FOR EXCHANGE & SHAREPOINT

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