French CERFACS Research Center Selects EMC VNX5700

EMC Corporation announced that CERFACS, the
France-based European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific
Computation, has selected EMC VNX unified storage over NetApp, Inc. for its performance, efficiency and simplicity to
handle its exponential data growth.

Customer
Benefits:

• Performance: CERFAC  improved the performance of its data center and achieved
  unequaled scalability with its EMC VNX5700 to support the IT organization’s
  future needs.
• Efficiency and ROI: CERFACS reduced storage costs, lowered its TCO and reduced
  daily management costs with its VNX unified storage.
• Management: CERFACS
  eliminated the needs for specialized storage administration training due to the
  VNX unified storage’s simplified management.

Customer
Challenges and Solutions:
For the past
two years, CERFACS embarked on a climate evolution research project with
Meteo-France, the French national meteorological service, doubling CERFACS’
volume of data. As a result, CERFACS decided to replace its legacy NetApp
storage solution with EMC VNX unified storage, a storage system capable of
managing CERFACS’ 160 Terabytes infrastructure.
After evaluating multiple vendors, CERFACS selected the EMC VNX5700 for its performance, efficiency and simplicity. The VNX allows CERFACS to
manage its increasing data growth at a lower cost by eliminating the need for
additional storage administration training.

Nicolas
Monnier, IT Manager, CERFACS, said: "We
wanted a high-performance scalable solution that was easy to manage. We also
wanted to optimize data protection with redundancy to future-proof our
investment. The VNX stood out among all of the solutions we looked at. It
outclassed the competition in terms of cost and performance, due to its unified
approach and implementation of a single system. Thanks to our EMC VNX5700 we
have achieved our goals of performance and ease of management."