Daetwyler Replaces HP by EMC VNXe

EMC Corporation announced that Max Daetwyler Corporation, a manufacturer of precision components and machines, replaced its HP storage with EMC VNXe
unified storage to handle rapid data growth driven by business expansion and
increasingly data-rich business applications.

With VNXe supporting a 98% VMware
virtualized infrastructure, Daetwyler now has greater scalability and
efficiency for its Microsoft Dynamics GP Enterprise Resource Planning
implementation, projecting first-year IT administration savings of $50,000.

Customer Benefits:

• Costs: Daetwyler
  has projected an annual cost savings of $50,000 with VNXe Unisphere management
  interface, compared with its previous HP administrative tools.
• Agility: VNXe
  enables Daetwyler to provision virtual disks and present it to servers within
  five to 10 minutes, accelerating IT responsiveness to new business initiatives,
  such as sales campaigns or tooling production lines.
• Deployment:
  Daetwyler had its VNXe out of the box and running in just two hours and
  migrated its data to the VNXe from HP in just one night.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

As a company that is innovating and introducing new
business initiatives, Daetwyler’s HP
environment was not keeping up with the company’s information storage demands. It needed a storage solution that could scale with its virtualized
server environment and provide a more efficient platform for its expanding
application suite.

After evaluating various solutions, Daetwyler selected EMC VNXe
unified storage to replace its HP storage for its superior scalability,
simplicity and affordability. It has enhanced flexibility
and streamlined provisioning to enable growth at an expected substantial cost
savings. In addition, VNXe is part of an infrastructure
transformation that includes Cisco Unified Computing System servers and VMware
virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies.

Daetwyler’s VNXe supports its business applications, including
Microsoft Dynamics GP, customer relationship management and various file and
print servers. It will also rely on VNXe for planned implementations of
Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint.

Mark Chamley, network and systems administrator, Daetwyler USA, said: "Our VNXe deployment was fast and easy. I had it out of the box
and running within a couple hours. We migrated our data from HP to VNXe in one
night. After setting up the new Cisco servers and updating VMware, we were up
and going in less than a week. Everything went very smoothly.

"Change is constant at Daetwyler and IT needs to adapt
efficiently. The VNXe enables us to quickly deploy applications and resources
without a lot of time and effort so the business can pursue new opportunities
as they come up-whether it’s tooling a new production line or launching a sales
campaign. With VNXe’s simplified management, I can chop out a new virtual disk
and present it to our virtual machines in only to 10 minutes.

"One of the big things that led me to the VNXe was ease of
management. My past experience managing HP was complex and difficult, but
Unisphere is very straightforward and intuitive. It is an ideal administration
tool for an IT generalist like myself who doesn’t have time to be a storage
expert.

"The cost of managing our previous HP infrastructure was
phenomenally high. A lot of productive time was lost wrestling with problems in
the Windows layer of the HP administrative interface. But Unisphere eliminated
all those issues. In management costs alone we expect to save $50,000 in the
first year.

"VNXe is a solution that not only satisfies our immediate
storage needs, but also allows us to expand with additional capacity,
performance and features to easily handle growth as it comes along. Its tight
integration with VMware gives us tremendous agility.

"Our relationship with EMC has been fabulous. They were there
to help out from the beginning and worked with us throughout the process to
make sure we had everything we needed to be successful. The fact that EMC is so
closely aligned with VMware and Cisco as partners just reinforced our decision
to go with EMC and VNXe."