Published on 24 Jul 2009
"The leading-edge blade technology we acquired from IBM has resulted in greater flexibility and higher availability for our critical business applications." - Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA
Customer:
Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA
Industry:
Consumer Products
Deployment country:
Peru
Solution:
IT/infrastructure
Overview
Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA is a Peruvian brewing company that operates numerous breweries in Latin America.
Business need:
The company had two main goals in mind when they began investigating options for a technology refresh—to consolidate disparate servers and storage in their regional data center, and to provide more reliable access to their mission-critical applications.
Solution:
The company replaced their legacy HP servers with the IBM BladeCenter® H chassis and IBM BladeCenter HS21 blade servers, two IBM System x3755 servers, an IBM System Storage™ DS4800 storage device, and IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Libraries, enabling the company to run all their business applications on a consolidated infrastructure. The entire solution was duplicated in two offsite locations to ensure high availability for their critical applications.
Benefits:
The IBM solution improves systems reliability, scalability and performance, reduces maintenance and management costs through consolidation, and enables high availability for continuous access to critical applications.
Case Study
Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA is a Peruvian brewing company that operates numerous breweries in Latin America. The company is a member of the SABMiller Group, which is the largest beer producer in Peru.
Challenge
Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA had two main goals in mind when they began investigating options for a technology refresh. They wanted to consolidate disparate servers and storage in their regional data center, in an effort to reduce operating costs by enabling more efficient maintenance and management of the IT infrastructure. They also wanted to improve systems availability in order to provide better support for their mission-critical applications.
Solution
Cost-effective IBM BladeCenter® technology was the server solution that Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA had been searching for. The company replaced their legacy HP servers with the IBM BladeCenter H chassis, IBM BladeCenter HS21 blades running Linux®, and two IBM System x3755 servers running Microsoft® Windows®. The company migrated their business applications to this consolidated infrastructure—everything from Oracle and Citrix to Microsoft Exchange and Domain Controller. Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston SAA also integrated an IBM System Storage™ DS4800 storage device containing 40TB of space to support data-intensive applications, and IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Libraries. The entire IBM solution was duplicated in two offsite locations to ensure high availability for their critical applications.
Benefits
- Improves systems reliability, scalability and performance
- Reduces maintenance and management costs through consolidation
- Enables high availability for continuous access to critical applications
Components
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Hardware:
BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS21, Storage: DS4800, Storage: TS3200 Tape Library, System x: System x3755
Operating system:
Linux, Win NT/2000
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