Mazda North American Operations
Mazda wanted to streamline operations and minimize IT complexity, so it deployed a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data technology.
Date
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11/1/2011
Dell Compellent storage gave us the performance we needed to enter the virtual computing space and establish best practices. Our business units are stunned by the increase in application speed we have been able to deliver.
Kai Sookwongse, Department Manager for Infrastructure Services, Mazda North American Operations
Challenge
To streamline operations and minimize IT complexity, Mazda needed a tiered storage architecture to support the virtualization of key applications and databases by accelerating performance across its 10Gb Ethernet network.Solution
Mazda deployed a Dell™ Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data™ technology to set up three tiers of storage, plus four Dell PowerEdge™ R710 servers to power virtual machines. Dell Compellent storage simplified administration, increased network performance and allowed virtualization of key infrastructure assets.Benefits
• Performance gains from 80 to 400 percent as a result of storage virtualization• Reduces full backups from 16 hours to 6 hours
• Takes a complete system snapshot — including databases — in 30 seconds
• Reduces window for nightly batch jobs by about 200 percent
• Cuts annual spending for physical servers by 60 percent
