Finnish Theme Park Moonminworld Chooses EMC VNXe

EMC Corporation announced that
Moominworld, a theme park in Finland, has deployed EMC VNXe unified storage
solutions to increase the efficiency, availability and scalability of its
business critical applications in a VMware virtualized environment, while
lowering costs, risk and management complexity.

The EMC VNXe ‘application-aware’ unified storage system
enables Moominworld to optimize data storage, create storage for
virtual machines (in under 10-clicks), and automate its tiered storage
requirements. The virtualized environment leverages VMware vSphere management
capabilities, together with built-in EMC VNXe wizards and EMC Unisphere
management software that utilizes data storage resources.

"With EMC VNXe our business has reaped the benefits of
a solution that previously only the biggest companies could afford: a
virtualized, tiered, unified data storage environment," said Jarkko
Kuitunen, IT Systems Manager, Moominworld. "The exceptional capabilities
of EMC VNXe have not only solved our immediate problems of reliability and
availability, but have also improved productivity, and provided us with a
platform that can scale to support future growth. It is very simple to manage
and I don’t have to be a data storage specialist to achieve the results the
business demands."

Prior to deploying EMC VNXe, Moominworld’s IT and storage
environment was struggling to keep pace with the company’s success.
Business critical servicesÑsuch as electronic point of sale (EPoS), Microsoft
SharePoint and financial solutions were hosted on servers nearing end-of- life.
The company’s data was growing exponentially and there was an increased risk of
downtime, which had serious potential implications for Moominworld, which
is a seasonal business.

"To manage the solution, I simply open a console on my
desktop," said Kuitunen. "I can instantly see if something is wrong
without having to go to the server room. If I want to make a new volume, change
the configuration, or allow systems access to new PCs, it is just a matter of
tweaking the system. Today I can focus my time on creating business value
rather than managing the data storage solution."

Enter SystemSolutions Oy, an EMC Velocity Solution Provider
partner and Finland-based company with a private cloud offering and
track record of success in the SMB market, helped Moominworld deploy its new
solution. The company focuses on VMware,
Microsoft and Citrix infrastructure technologies, consulting and outsourcing
services. Enter is part of System Partners Group.

"We had no hesitation in recommending EMC VNXe to
Moominworld," said Juha Auvinen, CTO at Enter SystemSolutions Oy.
"The EMC VNXe met all of Moominworld’s requirements for reliability,
simplicity and scalabilityÑand was affordable and simple. In fact, the user
interface ecosystem and the usability of the whole VNXe system integrated with
our VMware environment is the best the market has to offer, and far exceeds
what other vendors can provide."

EMC VNXe Product Highlights:
The EMC VNXe is an unified storage system,
providing application-optimized management and single-click help and support.
Designed for the IT manager that does not specialize in storage, VNXe offers an
entry price of under $10,000.

"With the VNXe series, EMC made a commitment to provide
its SMB customers worldwide with the industry’s most simple, efficient and
affordable unified storage solution," said Eric Herzog, Vice President
Product Marketing and Management, Unified Storage Division at EMC.
"Moominworld is a fantastic example of how this commitment is paying off
in the SMB market."