The challenge

With 8,000 users and 40 TB of data, the VMware-based SAP application servers and physical database servers requires 24x7 availability. Testing in the legacy environment indicated that a data center disaster would have taken 3 weeks to recover from, and would have cost $32 million. The joint venture needed a high availability solution to ensure the SAP environment never went down.

The outcome

The solution cost 60% less than the alternative the joint venture considered, and because it is hardware-agnostic, it can easily accommodate changes in the IT infrastructure.