Combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage and
IBM System X servers improves IT performance, simplifies management and
halves storage costs for the multinational electronics giant
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that Casio Computer Company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has
realized significant results in IT efficiency, performance and cost
savings with a solution comprising Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and IBM
System x servers. By combining virtualized industry-standard
servers with open software-defined storage, Casio now has a highly
available and agile storage solution that can accommodate heavy data
workloads by scaling to petabytes.
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., established in 1957, is one of the world's
leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment
solutions including calculators, mobile phones, cameras, musical
instruments and watches. The company previously used monolithic
proprietary storage hardware and software that became extremely
expensive because the operation and maintenance had to be entrusted to
the vendor.
Casio, with the help of premier IBM Business Partner Lightwell Ltd. Co.,
deployed Red Hat Storage into its existing infrastructure comprising Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization and IBM System x3650 servers to cut its
high storage costs and to avoid inflexible vendor lock-in. IBM System x
servers with Red Hat solutions were used to provide the backbone for the
virtualized environment to offer reliability and support for new digital
capabilities focused on increasing sales and visibility of Casio's
clock, digital cameras and tablets products.
Red Hat Storage acts as a data-store of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, the open datacenter virtualization solution built on
industry-leading performance of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
hypervisor. Within two years, Casio slashed its storage costs in half by
integrating the internal storage disks of multiple servers and using it
as one large storage pool that is accessible through the virtualized
server. The Red Hat Storage management console also provides a
simplified and unified way to manage both the storage and virtualized
server environments for optimized performance.
Supporting Quotes
Kazuyasu Yamazaki, group manager of the IT Infrastructure Group at
Casio Information Service, Co., Ltd.
"By deploying Red Hat Storage with Red Hat Virtualization running on IBM
x series servers, we were finally able to build a storage environment at
a low cost while using commodity servers. Our costs, including various
procurement costs and operating fees, fell to less than half of what we
had been spending before implementing Red Hat Storage. And, our IT usage
was by no means optimal or efficient. We were locked in by vendors'
proprietary storage hardware technologies, so we couldn't manipulate the
system ourselves."
Adalio Sanchez, general manager, IBM x86 and PureSystems Solutions
"Companies like Casio understand that virtualization is a business
decision, providing them a competitive advantage by improving overall
system utilization, increasing efficiency and lowering costs. IBM's
System x servers are specifically designed to provide the resiliency,
flexibility, performance, economy, and ease of installation and
operation that are essential to any virtualization solution."
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"Red Hat is pleased to assist Casio in slashing its storage costs and
improving IT performance by deploying the powerful combination of open
virtualized storage running on standard servers. The integrated
management capabilities of Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization enables Casio to easily fine-tune their infrastructure
and help decrease the time to results."
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