As part of its transformation, Blank Rome has increased the performance and availability of its mission-critical applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. According to an annual global end user survey by IDC1, more customers choose EMC storage than any other vendor’s for their Microsoft environments and other mission-critical applications.

Customer Benefits:
· Cost Savings – Blank Rome has saved millions of dollars in hardware and maintenance expenditures and reduced energy costs 30% as a result of massive storage consolidation and server virtualization.
· Better Business Agility – With EMC VNX unified storage, Blank Rome has reduced its storage footprint by 60% and increased storage capacity by 40%, supporting the firm’s ongoing business expansion.
· Increased Performance –Blank Rome has increased the performance of the firm’s business-critical Microsoft SQL Server applications while managing an exponential increase in transactions.
· Streamlined Administration – Blank Rome is able to develop business-critical applications and react quickly to demands from the business, provisioning new systems faster to accommodate growth, rather than manage equipment.
· Enhanced Disaster Recovery – With EMC Avamar and EMC RecoverPoint, Blank Rome has achieved a 99% deduplication rate and 85% reduction in application recovery time, allowing it to focus on further IT transformation.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

For the past 5+ years, Blank Rome has been expanding its operations, which led to significantly increased storage, server and protection requirements for its mission-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, email archiving and litigation support. In addition, the firm’s main data center was running out of floor space and data backup windows were overlapping with production hours.

To transform its infrastructure for increased efficiency, performance and agility, Blank Rome standardized on EMC SANs, and most recently, VNX unified storage as the foundation of its powerful and flexible private cloud. In addition, the firm has virtualized nearly 100% of its IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere™ and supports nearly 400 virtual machines across the globe. Blank Rome’s mission-critical applications, including Microsoft Exchange 2010, SQL Server and SharePoint, spans the firm’s primary data center in Philadelphia, and remote office or disaster recovery sites in Pittsburgh, New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Blank Rome depends on EMC RecoverPoint™ for continuous replication and point in time recovery of its VNX environment to its disaster recovery site 300 miles away in Pittsburgh. Blank Rome uses EMC Avamar® deduplication backup software and system to protect its virtualized infrastructure across the US and Asia with replication of Avamar backups to grids located in LA and off site at a SunGard facility in Philadelphia.
 

ShareThis

Tags:

Keep up to date with the latest industry products, services and technologies from the world's leading IT companies.

• Virtualization Success Depends on Network Automation by Infoblox

• The Infoblox VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in by Infoblox

• Automated Storage Tiering on Infortrend’s ESVA Solution by Infortrend

• Why Cloud Backup: Top 10 Reasons by Autonomy

• How to Measure the ROI of Cloud Data Protection by Autonomy

Latest IT jobs from leading companies.

Click here for full listings»