Rotary International Transforms IT with EMC
Rotary International Transforms IT with EMC Humanitarian Service Organization Transforms 90 Per Cent Virtualized IT
Infrastructure to Manage 400 Per Cent Data Growth; Reduces System
Management Time by 25 Per Cent; Improves Backup Time 32X HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 29, 2012 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)
today announced that Rotary International, a leading global humanitarian
service organization, has transformed its IT infrastructure and
standardized on EMC storage and backup and recovery technologies. With
90 per cent of its IT environment virtualized, Rotary has built a solid
foundation for improving the availability of its mission-critical
applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint,
Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP business intelligence and Avectra netFORUM
customer relationship management (CRM), while boosting the performance,
efficiency and scalability of its IT infrastructure. Rotary has implemented EMC®VNXe™,
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm) EMC Isilon®,
(http://www.isilon.com/) EMC Avamar®
(http://www.emc.com/backup-and-recovery/avamar/avamar.htm) and EMC
RecoverPoint
(http://www.emc.com/replication/recoverpoint/recoverpoint.htm)™as well
as VMware vSphere™ and is using a VCE™ Vblock™
(http://www.vce.com/vblock/) Infrastructure Platform that integrates
EMC VNX™ unified storage, VMware vSphere virtualization and cloud
technologies and Cisco networking and Unified Computing System (UCS)
technologies. Rotary is using its Vblock platform for its
mission-critical applications and primary storage, while leveraging a
VNXe storage system at a second facility to replicate data. Customer Benefits: * Simplified Management – Rotary has reduced everyday system
management time by 25 per cent since transforming its IT infrastructure
* Strengthened Data Protection – With EMC Avamar, Rotary has
eliminated tape and reduced the window for full backups from 72 hours to
just two hours, a 32X improvement in time to backup
* Predictable Performance – Rotary’s “FLASH 1st” strategy using
EMC’s FAST™ (fully automated storage tiering) Suite on its Vblock
platform ensured that the most utilized data was stored on the highest
performing media, including flash drives
* Improved Efficiency – After transforming its IT infrastructure,
Rotary reduced time to deliver new projects to its internal clients from
days to hours, enabling IT staff to be more proactive in supporting
Rotary’s overall humanitarian mission
* Managing Digital Assets – EMC Isilon scale-out NAS delivers
increased performance, capability and scalability for Rotary’s growing
digital assets Customer Challenges and Solution: With greater use of digital media in its program promotion and demand
for speedier grants management, Rotary saw its data volume grow
approximately 400 per cent in just 18 months. To handle this massive
data growth, Rotary’s lean IT staff needed to simplify manageability
while enabling cost-effective scalability and maintaining high
performance. A long-time EMC and VMware customer, Rotary decided to transform its IT
environment in the second quarter of 2011. Rotary selected EMC Isilon
during the second quarter of 2011 to better manage its growing digital
assets to complement its existing EMC Avamar solution, backing up its
entire IT infrastructure and eliminating all tape from its IT
environment. The final stage of Rotary’s transformation included the adoption of a
fully integrated converged infrastructure. Their VCE Vblock platform
brings together leading storage, networking, server and virtualization
technologies to support mission-critical workloads with the highest
levels of performance, availability and simplified management of the
infrastructure. To maximize the performance of its applications, Rotary
is using the EMC FAST Suite on its Vblock to employ a “FLASH 1st”
strategy, ensuring that the most imp
ortant, active data is stored on
Flash drives for maximum performance, while older, inactive data is
stored on inexpensive, high capacity drives for optimal total cost of
ownership. Customer Quotes: Jon Shulda, SAN and VMware Administrator, Rotary International On IT Transformation: “We needed to transform our IT infrastructure and processes to better
support our strategic goals of increasing visibility of the Rotary
brand. Leveraging EMC, VMware and VCE, many of our internal IT resources
have transitioned away from an operational role to focus more on
delivering new projects to our internal and external clients. Time to
deliver underlying infrastructure for new projects has been reduced from
a couple days to just a few hours in most cases allowing us to be more
proactive to the needs of organization .We’re also able to ensure our
mission-critical applications like SQL Server, SharePoint and Oracle are
well-protected and scale to new data loads.” On its Storage Environment: “The VNXe was a breeze to implement. We were out of the box and
production-ready in about two hours. EMC Unisphere™ allows us to manage
all our resources with a single interface. We can easily manage our
infrastructure on a daily basis and leverage Unisphere’s features when
performing system upgrades. ” “Provisioning storage on the Vblock platform has improved greatly
after implementing a ‘FLASH 1st’ strategy because EMC FAST VP
automatically distributes data onto the right tier of storage and
expands and contracts virtual storage pools as needed. As a result,
we’ve reduced the time we spend on day-to-day system management by
25 per cent. Despite our IT infrastructure growing by 400 per cent in
the past 18 months our IT staff has remained the same size and can
manage the growth easily with our EMC infrastructure.” “EMC’s close partnership with VMware, Cisco and VCE ensures all
products are working in harmony. We know EMC will stand behind the
entire solution. We rely on the Vblock platform to support our
mission-critical applications and we have complete confidence in its
ability to meet our strict SLAs.” “We also rely on EMC Isilon to provide high-performance, low-latency
storage to meet our multimedia initiatives need. Isilon integrated
seamlessly into our environment and has proven to be a reliable solution
to manage our multimedia files, allowing us to grow seamlessly as our
multimedia assets grow.” On Backup and Eliminating Tape: “In addition, EMC Avamar continues to be a key part of our
infrastructure and has been for a number of years. Before we implemented
Avamar, our full tape backups would run for more than 72 hours and often
included failed backups. Now, after completely eliminating tape from our
environment and with Avamar, we have achieved 92 per cent data
deduplication with Avamar, and most of our backups complete in just two
hours.” Additional Resources: * Customer Profile
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/customer-profiles/h9660-rotary-international-cp.pdf):
Read more about Rotary’s unified storage and backup and recovery
solutions
* Learn more about VNXe
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm), Unisphere
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/unisphere.htm), Isilon
(http://www.isilon.com/), RecoverPoint
(http://www.emc.com/replication/recoverpoint/recoverpoint.htm) and
Avamar (http://www.emc.com/backup-and-recovery/avamar/avamar.htm)
* Learn more about VCE (http://www.vce.com/vblock/) and Vblock
Infrastructure PlatformsConnect with EMC via Twitter
(http://emc.im/pv0ODN), Facebook (http://emc.im/oV8wDa), YouTube
(http://emc.im/njvQnq), LinkedIn (http://emc.im/p7PAo4) and ECN
(http://emc.im/bd2nk1) About EMC EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing
, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com. EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation. - 30 - For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, VNXe, VNX, Isilon, Unisphere and Avamar are registered trademarks
or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other
countries. VCE and Vblock are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE
Company LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their
respective owners.
Infrastructure to Manage 400 Per Cent Data Growth; Reduces System
Management Time by 25 Per Cent; Improves Backup Time 32X HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 29, 2012 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)
today announced that Rotary International, a leading global humanitarian
service organization, has transformed its IT infrastructure and
standardized on EMC storage and backup and recovery technologies. With
90 per cent of its IT environment virtualized, Rotary has built a solid
foundation for improving the availability of its mission-critical
applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint,
Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP business intelligence and Avectra netFORUM
customer relationship management (CRM), while boosting the performance,
efficiency and scalability of its IT infrastructure. Rotary has implemented EMC®VNXe™,
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm) EMC Isilon®,
(http://www.isilon.com/) EMC Avamar®
(http://www.emc.com/backup-and-recovery/avamar/avamar.htm) and EMC
RecoverPoint
(http://www.emc.com/replication/recoverpoint/recoverpoint.htm)™as well
as VMware vSphere™ and is using a VCE™ Vblock™
(http://www.vce.com/vblock/) Infrastructure Platform that integrates
EMC VNX™ unified storage, VMware vSphere virtualization and cloud
technologies and Cisco networking and Unified Computing System (UCS)
technologies. Rotary is using its Vblock platform for its
mission-critical applications and primary storage, while leveraging a
VNXe storage system at a second facility to replicate data. Customer Benefits: * Simplified Management – Rotary has reduced everyday system
management time by 25 per cent since transforming its IT infrastructure
* Strengthened Data Protection – With EMC Avamar, Rotary has
eliminated tape and reduced the window for full backups from 72 hours to
just two hours, a 32X improvement in time to backup
* Predictable Performance – Rotary’s “FLASH 1st” strategy using
EMC’s FAST™ (fully automated storage tiering) Suite on its Vblock
platform ensured that the most utilized data was stored on the highest
performing media, including flash drives
* Improved Efficiency – After transforming its IT infrastructure,
Rotary reduced time to deliver new projects to its internal clients from
days to hours, enabling IT staff to be more proactive in supporting
Rotary’s overall humanitarian mission
* Managing Digital Assets – EMC Isilon scale-out NAS delivers
increased performance, capability and scalability for Rotary’s growing
digital assets Customer Challenges and Solution: With greater use of digital media in its program promotion and demand
for speedier grants management, Rotary saw its data volume grow
approximately 400 per cent in just 18 months. To handle this massive
data growth, Rotary’s lean IT staff needed to simplify manageability
while enabling cost-effective scalability and maintaining high
performance. A long-time EMC and VMware customer, Rotary decided to transform its IT
environment in the second quarter of 2011. Rotary selected EMC Isilon
during the second quarter of 2011 to better manage its growing digital
assets to complement its existing EMC Avamar solution, backing up its
entire IT infrastructure and eliminating all tape from its IT
environment. The final stage of Rotary’s transformation included the adoption of a
fully integrated converged infrastructure. Their VCE Vblock platform
brings together leading storage, networking, server and virtualization
technologies to support mission-critical workloads with the highest
levels of performance, availability and simplified management of the
infrastructure. To maximize the performance of its applications, Rotary
is using the EMC FAST Suite on its Vblock to employ a “FLASH 1st”
strategy, ensuring that the most imp
ortant, active data is stored on
Flash drives for maximum performance, while older, inactive data is
stored on inexpensive, high capacity drives for optimal total cost of
ownership. Customer Quotes: Jon Shulda, SAN and VMware Administrator, Rotary International On IT Transformation: “We needed to transform our IT infrastructure and processes to better
support our strategic goals of increasing visibility of the Rotary
brand. Leveraging EMC, VMware and VCE, many of our internal IT resources
have transitioned away from an operational role to focus more on
delivering new projects to our internal and external clients. Time to
deliver underlying infrastructure for new projects has been reduced from
a couple days to just a few hours in most cases allowing us to be more
proactive to the needs of organization .We’re also able to ensure our
mission-critical applications like SQL Server, SharePoint and Oracle are
well-protected and scale to new data loads.” On its Storage Environment: “The VNXe was a breeze to implement. We were out of the box and
production-ready in about two hours. EMC Unisphere™ allows us to manage
all our resources with a single interface. We can easily manage our
infrastructure on a daily basis and leverage Unisphere’s features when
performing system upgrades. ” “Provisioning storage on the Vblock platform has improved greatly
after implementing a ‘FLASH 1st’ strategy because EMC FAST VP
automatically distributes data onto the right tier of storage and
expands and contracts virtual storage pools as needed. As a result,
we’ve reduced the time we spend on day-to-day system management by
25 per cent. Despite our IT infrastructure growing by 400 per cent in
the past 18 months our IT staff has remained the same size and can
manage the growth easily with our EMC infrastructure.” “EMC’s close partnership with VMware, Cisco and VCE ensures all
products are working in harmony. We know EMC will stand behind the
entire solution. We rely on the Vblock platform to support our
mission-critical applications and we have complete confidence in its
ability to meet our strict SLAs.” “We also rely on EMC Isilon to provide high-performance, low-latency
storage to meet our multimedia initiatives need. Isilon integrated
seamlessly into our environment and has proven to be a reliable solution
to manage our multimedia files, allowing us to grow seamlessly as our
multimedia assets grow.” On Backup and Eliminating Tape: “In addition, EMC Avamar continues to be a key part of our
infrastructure and has been for a number of years. Before we implemented
Avamar, our full tape backups would run for more than 72 hours and often
included failed backups. Now, after completely eliminating tape from our
environment and with Avamar, we have achieved 92 per cent data
deduplication with Avamar, and most of our backups complete in just two
hours.” Additional Resources: * Customer Profile
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/customer-profiles/h9660-rotary-international-cp.pdf):
Read more about Rotary’s unified storage and backup and recovery
solutions
* Learn more about VNXe
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm), Unisphere
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/unisphere.htm), Isilon
(http://www.isilon.com/), RecoverPoint
(http://www.emc.com/replication/recoverpoint/recoverpoint.htm) and
Avamar (http://www.emc.com/backup-and-recovery/avamar/avamar.htm)
* Learn more about VCE (http://www.vce.com/vblock/) and Vblock
Infrastructure PlatformsConnect with EMC via Twitter
(http://emc.im/pv0ODN), Facebook (http://emc.im/oV8wDa), YouTube
(http://emc.im/njvQnq), LinkedIn (http://emc.im/p7PAo4) and ECN
(http://emc.im/bd2nk1) About EMC EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing
, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com. EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation. - 30 - For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, VNXe, VNX, Isilon, Unisphere and Avamar are registered trademarks
or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other
countries. VCE and Vblock are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE
Company LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their
respective owners.