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Grupo Industrial Saltillo chooses Cisco UCS for its Data Center | |
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 02:11:36 PM | |
Now their data center is operating with savings of up to 60% MEXICO CITY, July 9, 2015 – Grupo Industrial Saltillo, GIS, a Mexican industrial company based in the north of Mexico, has deployed Cisco UCS® in their new data center. As a result, it has reduced operational costs and obtained better performance of its network. Cisco® UCS, now used by over 41,000 customers worldwide, is the first data center platform that combines industry-standard, x86-architecture blade and rack-mount servers with networking and storage access into a single converged system. The system is a set of pre-integrated data center components that creates a virtual server comprised of blade and rack servers, network adapters, fabric extenders, and interconnects, all of which are integrated under a common embedded management system. GIS is a company with more than 6,400 employees working on five business units that manufactures and commercializes products for the automotive, construction, and houseware sectors. The company has production plans in five Mexican cities and commercial offices nationwide and in the United States. Formerly to cover all its requirements for its international network, GIS rented space with a data center supplier. Close to the end of that contract and after an analysis about developing its own data center, according to the particular needs of their 1,500 IT users, GIS looked for an option that could help them to reduce at least 30% the IT operation. GIS decided to develop their own data center and chose Cisco UCS. After the deployment, GIS has obtained significant improvements on its network performance. Cisco UCS helped them to migrate from 18 to 7 racks, therefore obtaining cost reductions including energy used, cooling space, equipment maintenance, and management. The backup times using LAN become 8 times faster, access to storage improved 30%, and load of servers came from 70% to 10%. In general terms the company has an operation 40% lower than previously. "After learning about Cisco UCS we decided to develop our own data center, only renting the physical space and energy, using this technology and having the control and capacity that previously through the outsourcing was out of our reach," said Francisco Ramos, Project Infrastructure Manager from GIS. "The migration using virtual servers helped us to do a seamless transition; reducing space thus racks equipment and having countable benefits in its operation". "Cisco UCS offers to our customers manageability, agility, operational efficiency, and flexibility," said Rogelio Velasco, Vice-President of Cisco Mexico. "Customers are adopting UCS because our innovation drives positive business outcomes for them." The deployment of Cisco UCS was done with the support of Ikusi de Mexico, a Cisco Gold Partner and includes:
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