Customer Stories

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company do Brazil

We rely on Dell for everything from desktops and laptops to servers and storage. The quality of their technology and their support consistently exceed our expectations.

— Andre Simha, chief information officer, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, Brazil

Challenge
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company do Brazil (MSC Brazil) needed a new data center to support the company’s annual growth and saw the opportunity to build a new data center from scratch when it moved into its new Brazilian headquarters building.
Solution
The company chose its long-time partner Dell to design and build a data center with Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers using Intel® processor technology and virtualized with Citrix® XenServer™ and VMware® Infrastructure 3. Dell/EMC storage area networks (SANs) provide a robust data protection and disaster recovery (DR) solution with EMC® RecoverPoint software replicating data synchronously between primary and secondary sites.
Benefits
• Three-day move into new data center and DR facility
• Thirty-minute creation of new servers for provisioning of new services or offices in 1 day vs. 45–60 days
• Zero recovery point objective with synchronous replication of data
• $150,000 savings in server costs by not buying proprietary servers
• 50 percent of servers virtualized
• 70 percent savings in power