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Consolidate and virtualize your retail IT infrastructure, boosting efficiency and cutting costs, with a combination of EMC hardware, software, and services—plus best practices and VMware software.
The EMC Consolidation and Virtualization for Retail solution can help you eliminate inefficiencies within your current retail IT infrastructure caused by years of growth and expansion. It can also help you build an efficient information infrastructure from scratch to support your new retail business. Lower your information infrastructure costs via data center consolidation and server and storage virtualization.
Key Benefits
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New applications — Bring new retail applications online quickly with a scalable, flexible information infrastructure that can support many stores but be managed centrally.
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TCO and energy costs — Reduce your company’s total cost of operation (TCO) with increased automation, datacenter consolidation, and lower energy costs.
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Customer satisfaction — Serve your customers faster and with better quality because realtime retail information is available instantly, across your business.
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Lower capital expenses — Avoid or delay the need to procure additional server capacity.
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Reduced store footprint — Reduce the cost of floor space, which can mean significant cost savings in high-rent locations, by consolidating physical data centers through the power of VMware-based virtualization.
- Avamar -
Deduplicate data globally and at the source for fast, secure backup and recovery across your enterprise—including VMware environments, remote offices, and data center LANs.
- Avamar Data Store -
Streamline deployment and management of data deduplication backup and recovery with pre-packaged software and pre-configured hardware.
- Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware -
Combine data deduplication with VMware to accelerate virtual machine backup and eliminate dedicated backup server infrastructure.
- Celerra Manager -
Easily configure, administer, and monitor your EMC Celerra IP storage environment from a single web-based interface, ensuring high availability.
- Celerra Multi-Path File System -
Dramatically enhance NAS file-sharing capabilities to support high-bandwidth, collaborative applications.
- Celerra Replicator -
Create point-in-time network-attached storage (NAS) file system copies and consistent Internet SCSI (iSCSI) logical unit number (LUN) copies on a local or remote site.
- Centera® Seek and Centera® Chargeback Reporter -
Perform quick content searches—and assign, manage, and identify categories of archived data—in your EMC Centera® environment.
- Centera® Universal Access -
EMC Centera® Universal Access enables ISV and homegrown enterprise applications to work with EMC Centera® storage systems.
- Documentum Content Services for EMC Centera -
Gain seamless integration between EMC Documentum and EMC Centera products. And enable EMC Centera users to store documents online with immutability and authenticity.
- EMC® Centera® Mainframe HSM Migrator -
Enable EMC Centera® system connectivity to IBM DFSMShsm (Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem) for completely transparent data archiving.
- Invista -
Add storage virtualization intelligence to your existing SAN to keep your operations up and running, eliminate planned downtime, and streamline storage management.
- Ionix ControlCenter SAN Advisor -
Simulate changes to your storage area network design and see potential effects before they go to production.
- Ionix ControlCenter SAN Manager -
Manage your storage area network through a single interface.
- Rainfinity File Management Appliance -
EMC Rainfinity File Management Appliance helps you streamline backup, recovery, and archiving, and gives you an easy start with virtualization.
- Rainfinity Global Namespace Appliance -
EMC Rainfinity Global Namespace Appliance simplifies EMC Celerra infrastructure management by providing a single mount point for network file shares.
- SAN Copy -
Enable high-speed data mobility, migration, and protection between EMC CLARiiON networked storage and qualified storage systems.
- Symmetrix Optimizer -
Automate performance tuning for your EMC Symmetrix storage without disruption to applications or users.
