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STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics


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Company Profile

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.

Business need


  • 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

Solution overview

  • 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

Results


  • 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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