Carglass Acquires EMC VNX Over NetApp

EMC Corporation announced
Carglass Germany, a vehicle glass repair and replacement company and a
member of The Belron Group, selected EMC VNX unified storage over NetApp, Inc. for
its performance and simple management, in order to improve performance
levels of its mission-critical IT applications, including Oracle
eBusiness Suite, under high workload conditions.

EMC is enabling Carglass to
cut its data center power consumption by 50% and improve its delivery of IT
services to its more than 1,800 employees and numerous customer service centers
throughout Germany.

According to
a new global end user survey by IDC, more customers choose EMC storage than
any other vendor’s for their Oracle environments and other mission critical
applications. The IDC survey joins the recent Wikibon user survey in which EMC
was ranked the number one choice by customers for information infrastructure in
VMware virtual and cloud environments.

Customer
Benefits:

• Increased Performance and Efficiency:
  Carglass has achieved 5X faster performance with EMC VNX and FAST Cache under
  high workload conditions, such as quarterly financial reporting.
• Reduced Footprint: With VNX, Carglass
  has reduced power consumption in its data center by 50%.
• Simplified Management: With the
  unsurpassed simplicity of the VNX, Carglass’ IT managers can now set up a
  hardware test environment in just 2 hours, 36X faster than before, and spend
  less time on maintenance and configuration.

Carglass
replaced legacy storage systems with EMC VNX unified storage to scale, simplifying the management of its environment, as well as to achieve the
increased performance and service levels required by its more than 1,800
employees in its Cologne headquarters, customer contact center and numerous
service centers throughout Germany, all of which use Carglass’ Oracle
eBusiness Suite.

Frank Muller, IT Manager, Carglass, said: "We
selected EMC VNX over NetApp because of its high-performance and simple
management. The VNX has enabled us to take a tremendous stride forward in our
efficiency-proving to be 5X faster than our previous solution and reducing our
data center’s energy consumption by 50%. This is a phenomenal improvement that
we are extremely happy about. Management simplicity is another major benefit that
we’ve see from deploying VNX unified storage. Thanks to the simplicity of VNX
we now spend far less time on storage administration, maintenance and
configuration."

Bernd
Kuxdorf, IT Administrator UNIX, Carglass, said: "Our EMC VNX has worked very smoothly, without issues. It has proven to
be powerful enough to withstand the highest possible loads with its simple and
efficient design, which delivers consistent and predictable service levels,
even as our workloads fluctuate constantly."