1. IBM SAP Alliance
NTN-SNR Keeps the wheels turning smoothly with SAP solutions on IBM Power Systems and IBM Storwize
“The introduction of the Power 750 servers has given us the headroom we needed to continue consolidating non-SAP software from smaller Power Systems servers.”
— Stéphane Nuzzo
Infrastructure Manager
NTN-SNR
The need:
NTN-SNR is a multi-national industrial firm with activities across general industry, automotive and aerospace. With plans to introduce new SAP applications, the company wanted to refresh its server and storage infrastructure.
The solution:
NTN-SNR upgraded to two IBM Power 750 Express servers, running IBM AIX 6.1. It also replaced its Sun-StorageTek disk arrays with two IBM Storwize V7000 Disk Systems.
The benefits:
Reduced software and maintenance costs.
Helped focus disaster-recovery efforts on genuinely business-critical data.
Increased performance enabled much faster testing and development in the SAP landscape.
Cut time taken to create and populate test and quality assurance environments from 36 to less than five hours.
Solution components:
IBM Power® 750 Express, IBM Storwize® V7000
IBM AIX® 6.1, IBM PowerVM®, IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager
SAP® ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP Business Objects GRC
Link
SPP03108-FREN-00 (January 2012)