Tom Gibson

Cloud, virtualization, automation and mobility have fundamentally impacted the way businesses operate; yet many IT departments maintain the same roles and organizational structures that they’ve had for the past 15 years. And, for a lot of companies, that’s making IT more of a roadblock than an enabler.

The following benefits were recognized as a result of the collective strategy between EMC, ACS and ScottsMiracle-Gro:

25 percent reduction in backup windows in the SAP environment
40 percent reduction of the Microsoft Exchange data environment
Reduced backup windows from 16 hours to six hours in the Microsoft Exchange data environment
Recovered 1 TB in freed space in the NAS environment in three weeks
Recovered 3 TBs of space from production by moving it to archiving… Show more

The following benefits were recognized as a result of the collective strategy between EMC, ACS and ScottsMiracle-Gro:

25 percent reduction in backup windows in the SAP environment
40 percent reduction of the Microsoft Exchange data environment
Reduced backup windows from 16 hours to six hours in the Microsoft Exchange data environment
Recovered 1 TB in freed space in the NAS environment in three weeks
Recovered 3 TBs of space from production by moving it to archiving environment
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BUSINESS CHALLENGE
● Reduce maintenance costs associated with remote file and print servers at branch offices
● Maintain LAN-like file and print services performance to branch users
● Ensure timely and properly managed backups of mission-critical data

NETWORK SOLUTION
● Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) to boost print and file services performance across the WAN while reducing bandwidth utilization

BUSINESS RESULTS
● Payback in less than 18 months through… Show more

BUSINESS CHALLENGE
● Reduce maintenance costs associated with remote file and print servers at branch offices
● Maintain LAN-like file and print services performance to branch users
● Ensure timely and properly managed backups of mission-critical data

NETWORK SOLUTION
● Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) to boost print and file services performance across the WAN while reducing bandwidth utilization

BUSINESS RESULTS
● Payback in less than 18 months through cost efficiencies of centralized data management
● Improved protection of mission-critical data with more effective backup procedures
● Increased capacity of bandwidth for future WAN needs
● Business agility to rapidly integrate acquired companies and deploy new branch offices Show less