Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Ltd.
3TB File Server Consolidation Project completed with the Riverbed Steelhead® Appliance
Realizing a cost savings of over 12,000,000 yen per year through WAN optimization, with improved data security and improved availability
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Ltd. (“Mitsubishi Motors”) was aiming to further increase its competitive strength by consolidating its information systems at key locations within Japan. As part of this effort, in 2005 they consolidated a total of 50 Windows NT-based file servers (5000 users) at three locations whose hardware maintenance contracts had expired, replacing them with a single EMC Celerra NS series. By introducing the Riverbed Steelhead appliance, they were able to provide end users with performance comparable to that of LAN access and reduce WAN traffic by over 90%. They also strengthened data security, centralized management, enabled a large reduction in TCO, and improved availability.
Issue: Consolidation of Windows NT-Based File Servers Distributed At Three Locations Into One Location Without Loss of Performance
planning department decided to consolidate the servers when they were replaced.
“In our company, the operations management of servers is outsourced, and the maintenance contract fee depends on the number of servers. So in order to lower the cost, it was necessary to reduce the number of servers by consolidating them. It was also an urgent matter to consolidate the servers in order to enable centralized management. Doing so, we could unify access rights management, which was handled differently in each department, as well as the backup management standards, and thereby strengthen data security,” said IT planning department expert Yasuhiro Nishikawa.
Before using the Riverbed Steelhead appliance, Mitsubishi Motors also did comparisons against competing products. Along with performance, factors that led to the choice of Riverbed included the wealth of compatible protocols and applications, cost performance and a strong support structure. Junichi Tomita of the IT planning department, who was responsible for the planning, described an episode in which “a product competing with Riverbed was unable to open some application files that are essential to our company.”
In this way, after various investigations, the final specification put together by Mitsubishi Motors was to consolidate about 50 Windows NT-based file servers (3.5 TB) at three key locations in the Kansai region into a single EMC Celerra NS series NAS, and use the existing wide-area network (10 to 60 Mbps) to establish a CIFS connection between the key locations via the Riverbed Steelhead appliance. Mitsubishi Motors uses two SH5010 machines, four SH3010 machines, and two SH1020 machines.
Effect: Major Reduction in TCO, Enhanced Data Security, and Improved Availability
At Mitsubishi Motors, now using the Riverbed Steelhead appliance to consolidate servers across regions, they have been able to achieve their initial goals, namely, a great reduction in application cost, improved data security through centralized management, and a great improvement in availability.
Future Prospects: Further Server Consolidation Involving Overseas Locations and the Addition of Applications
The Mitsubishi Motors IT planning department has introduced the Riverbed Steelhead appliance into the environment for server consolidation at headquarters, which had been started before the server consolidation across the three key locations in the Kansai region. In addition, it is now looking into using the same method for further consolidation, such as for CAD applications and mail servers that are currently running separately within each location, and file servers at key overseas locations.
The Riverbed Steelhead appliance is set to play an ever-increasing role in providing a more efficient IT strategy for Mitsubishi Motors.
Pandangan Mitsubishi terhadap KM : The Mitsubishi Motors departemen TI perencanaan telah memperkenalkan alat Riverbed Steelhead kepada pelanggan dan aplikasi CAD dan mail server dan dapat meningkatkan strategi secara efisien .
KM yang dilakukan :
a. Knowledge strategi yang dapat meminalkan biaya dengan mengurangi jumlah server.
b. Knowledge tentang produk knowledge yang harus dikuasai oleh karyawan agar dapat menjawab pertanyaan bila pelanggan bertanya.
c. Knowledge menciptakan produk baru agar dapat menarik pelanggan dalam peningkatan profit dalam penjualan.
KM yang dilakukan :
a. Knowledge strategi yang dapat meminalkan biaya dengan mengurangi jumlah server.
b. Knowledge tentang produk knowledge yang harus dikuasai oleh karyawan agar dapat menjawab pertanyaan bila pelanggan bertanya.
c. Knowledge menciptakan produk baru agar dapat menarik pelanggan dalam peningkatan profit dalam penjualan.
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