Groupe Mutuel improves data center application availability and performance while saving on power, space, and management.

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Challenge

Help ensure system failures do not occur, while maintaining high availability, disaster recovery capabilities, and a flexible architecture.

• Improve operational resilience
• Enhance service capability
• Lower costs

Solution

Deploy Cisco Unified Computing System to work cohesively with current technologies.

• FlexPod architecture based on Cisco Nexus Switching, Cisco UCS servers, NetApp storage, and VMware virtualization
• Cisco Services for solution design, validation, and deployment

Results

The solutions improved the company's disaster recovery capabilities and efficiency.

• Doubled application speed and reduced provisioning times from days to hours
• Reduced restoration time four to twelve-fold
• Had no downtime across more than 500 servers for three years