European Center for Scientific Computation Simplifies Management, Improves Performance with EMC VNX "No Compromise" Unified Storage
CERFACS Research Center Replaces NetApp with EMC VNX for its Performance, Efficiency and Simplicity
PARIS, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that CERFACS, the France-based European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, has selected EMC® VNX™ unified storage over NetApp for its high level performance, efficiency and simplicity—with no compromise—to handle its exponential data growth.
Customer Benefits:
- Improved Performance – CERFACS significantly improved the performance of its data center and achieved unequaled scalability with its EMC VNX5700 to support the IT organization's future needs.
- Increased Efficiency and Return on Investment – CERFACS reduced storage costs, lowered its TCO and reduced daily management costs with its VNX unified storage.
- Simplified 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 without compromising on simplicity or performance.
After closely evaluating multiple vendors, CERFACS selected the EMC VNX5700 for its high level 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.
Customer Quote:
Nicolas Monnier, IT Manager, CERFACS
"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."
About EMC VNX
The award-winning VNX Family offers customers simple, efficient, affordable and powerful unified storage optimized for virtualized application environments. With the EMC FAST Suite, VNX customers can cost-effectively leverage the benefits of Flash performance --with "no compromise". VNXe offers an affordable unified storage platform for smaller businesses with solution-focused software that's easy to manage, provision, and protect. The Family dramatically simplifies the deployment and management of virtualized applications, including those from Microsoft, Oracle, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions from VMware and Citrix.
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