Published on 31 Mar 2009
"Our new IBM infrastructure provides us with improved performance, availability and scalability to manage our growth." - The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt
Customer:
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt
Industry:
Deployment country:
Egypt
Solution:
Energy Efficiency, Optimizing IT
IBM Business Partner:
Overview
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt is the sole bottler for Egypt and operates nine bottling plants and 30 sales and distribution centers in Egypt. The company currently has more than 7,000 employees.
Business need:
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt’s hardware infrastructure hosted their enterprise resource planning system, Oracle E-Business Suite. As they grew and added modules, server performance failed to meet business needs. They needed to implement a high performance, scalable infrastructure, including a centralized storage system.
Solution:
The company implemented two IBM Power™ 570 servers — one each for the main site and the remote site — both running IBM AIX®. They implemented IBM PowerVM™ Dynamic Logical Partitioning and Micro-Partitioning to minimize server administration and to minimize the number of processors needed. They also implemented IBM System Storage™ DS4800.
Benefits:
The IBM solution improves performance while reducing the number of processors from 16 to 7, reduces risk and reduces the number of servers needed for disaster recovery, and increases server utilization by 35 percent while supporting 71 percent more users.
Case Study
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt is the sole bottler for Egypt and operates nine bottling plants and 30 sales and distribution centers in Egypt. The company currently has more than 7,000 employees.
Challenge
The company’s legacy competitive hardware infrastructure hosted their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, Oracle E-Business Suite. However, as the company expanded and implemented new modules, server performance failed to meet business needs. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt needed to replace their legacy infrastructure with a high performance, scalable hardware solution. They also wanted to implement a centralized storage system to improve management and performance.
Solution
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt upgraded their server environment with two IBM Power™ 570 servers running IBM AIX®. One server hosts the production environment at the main site, while the other hosts the disaster recovery and testing environment at a remote site. The company implemented IBM PowerVM™ Dynamic Logical Partitioning and Micro-Partitioning on both servers. Using different logical partitions (LPARs) for the primary server enabled them to minimize server administration. The PowerVM Micro-Partitioning used on the remote server enabled the company to minimize the number of processors needed.
To store all of the company’s financial and sales data as well as to support the ERP solution, the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt implemented IBM System Storage™ DS4800. This new infrastructure provides a robust, highly available and secure storage environment.
Benefits
- Improves performance while reducing the number of processors from 16 to 7
- Reduces risk and reduces the number of servers needed for disaster recovery
- Increases server utilization by 35 percent and supports 71 percent more users
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