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STMicroelectronics
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STMicroelectronics (ST) is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies. At its Italian manufacturing facility in Agrate Brianza in Milan, ST maintains a 24x7 operation that depends on 100% availability of its manufacturing applications for chip production tracking.
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- Maintain 24x7 manufacturing operations at its Milan facility
- Reduce the chance of downtime or loss of system availability
- Adopt disaster-tolerant solutions at all production sites
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- Disaster-tolerant solution based on HP Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP
- HP Serviceguard cluster that incorporates two HP rp7400 servers and two HP StorageWorks XP128 disk arrays
- Infrastructure that is divided between a primary and secondary site linked by two Fibre Channel Long Wave connections
- HP Mission Critical Support for servers and storage
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Results |
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- Obtained consistently high availability of key applications
- Achieved automated and seamless failover in the event of a disaster
- Met compliance standards and regulations related to security in product development
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