NetApp Helps Revlon Transition to Cloud Infrastructure

NetApp,
Inc. announced its role in Revlon Inc.
IT transformation.

The beauty company turned to NetApp to help
inject simplicity throughout its business. Through the NetApp
storage foundation, which is at the heart of the company’s IT operations,
Revlon is able to make IT decisions that help fuel company growth.

Revlon manufactures and distributes
millions of beauty products each year to more than 100 countries across six
continents, creating layers of business complexity and incredible amounts of
data. These challenges limited the company’s previous IT infrastructure, so the
company approached NetApp to transform its IT capabilities. By building on
NetApp, It  implemented a private cloud
infrastructure that increased agility and enabled the company to meet growing
consumer demands. NetApp also helped Revlon harness its big data challenge,
turning 3.6PB of data from a burden into a business driver.

"When
we started our IT transformation in 2006, our overarching philosophy was to
simplify. Simplification enables the speed to adapt, and speed is a competitive
advantage. IT’s job is to make systems work for people, rather than people
working for systems," said David Giambruno, SVP and CIO for Revlon.
"Leveraging NetApp as our single
storage and data management foundation provides a newfound level of agility
that impacts every aspect of our business. With 97% of our total compute
running on our internal cloud built by NetApp, we wield the technology needed
to turn data into information. Ultimately, that enables us to support the
business and to deliver high-quality, innovative products to our consumers
around the world."

Revlon
Delivers IT Simplicity with NetApp

• The private cloud infrastructure runs more
  than 500 applications in a virtualized environment, which support more than
  15,000 automated application moves a month. NetApp enables non-disruptive
  operations of these applications with 99.9999% uptime.

• Revlon has experienced data center
  efficiencies with NetApp that include reducing energy costs by 72%, cutting its
  physical footprint by more than 50%, and avoiding investments of more than $70
  million.

• With its agility, Revlon IT has been able
  to increase project throughput by 425% since 2007, reduce time to deliver
  projects by 70%, and complete 99.6% of projects on budget and on time.

• Revlon IT leverages NetApp to maintain BC
  by restoring or moving business processes within its cloud environment. This
  capability played a major role during a recent winter storm that forced the
  company to move data among its data centers. The entire process was managed by
  a single employee and took less than one hour, resulting in zero impact to the
  business or user experience.

Revlon created a model to consume and
organize 3.6PB of data generated from tracking 660 million SKU attributes per
month. By leveraging NetApp, Revlon IT implemented a global master data system
that enables the company to deploy actionable information across its mobile
business intelligence platform to business units regardless of device or
location for simplified operations.

Revlon is testing NetApp flash Accel and
has experienced efficiency and performance gains that have allowed the company
to avoid hardware investments while deploying a global ERP platform on its
internal cloud.

Julie Parrish, chief marketing officer,
NetApp, said: "Revlon
is an ideal example for how IT agility leads to business success. The company
understands that the right IT infrastructure can be a significant enabler of
the business and create a competitive advantage. Building their infrastructure
on NetApp has enabled Revlon to streamline operations and change the way
employees think about and utilize data."

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