Introduction During 2009 and 2010, EMC, like many enterprise organizations, was focused on reducing spending in the data center. Given the company’s rapid growth, EMC’s IT organization also required the agility to meet increasing demands from the business. The EMC IT team needed a cost-containment solution that would create greater capacity for growing business operations, driving data analytics, and improving service levels to internal customers. Their solution was to create a virtualized, hybrid cloud environment powered by the energy-efficient performance, added data protection, and scalability of Intel® Xeon® processors. For its storage refresh, EMC IT migrated to Symmetrix VMAX* based on Intel Xeon processors to optimize current operations and support future growth. Symmetrix VMAX leverages the power of Intel multi-core processors to deliver the performance and efficiency of a scale-up architecture and the cost benefits of a scale-out architecture. The storage refresh was part of a much larger effort, as EMC IT engaged in a complete system replatform of its servers, applications, and network. The re-platform included moving from the legacy infrastructure to an open Intel and Linux*-based platform, using Cisco Unified Computing System* (UCS). The massive migration of EMC’s legacy IT platform, including the storage upgrade, began in 2009, and remarkably, was completed less than 12 months later, delivering a 20 times better system throughput performance and $5 million to $7 million in savings.
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Introduction During 2009 and 2010, EMC, like many enterprise organizations, was focused on reducing spending in the data center. Given the company’s rapid growth, EMC’s IT organization also required the agility to meet increasing demands from the business. The EMC IT team needed a cost-containment solution that would create greater capacity for growing business operations, driving data analytics, and improving service levels to internal customers. Their solution was to create a virtualized, hybrid cloud environment powered by the energy-efficient performance, added data protection, and scalability of Intel® Xeon® processors. For its storage refresh, EMC IT migrated to Symmetrix VMAX* based on Intel Xeon processors to optimize current operations and support future growth. Symmetrix VMAX leverages the power of Intel multi-core processors to deliver the performance and efficiency of a scale-up architecture and the cost benefits of a scale-out architecture. The storage refresh was part of a much larger effort, as EMC IT engaged in a complete system replatform of its servers, applications, and network. The re-platform included moving from the legacy infrastructure to an open Intel and Linux*-based platform, using Cisco Unified Computing System* (UCS). The massive migration of EMC’s legacy IT platform, including the storage upgrade, began in 2009, and remarkably, was completed less than 12 months later, delivering a 20 times better system throughput performance and $5 million to $7 million in savings.
