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Cobelfret


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Company profile

Antwerp-based Cobelfret ships approximately 50 million tons of coal, iron ore, bauxite and dry bulk products each year, and operates 21 liners between the UK, Scandinavia and Continental Europe that ship vehicles, containers, trailers and other equipment.

For maximum efficiency, the company uses commercial and enterprise applications to allow it to offer just-in-time shipping. Data and application availability is vital to its just-in-time operations—if the network and applications go down, shipping literally stops. The company wanted to make sure that its operations never shut down, and that its data would always be easily available via backups. But the decentralized nature of its servers and applications—spread out among 13 sites in Western Europe—made that difficult.

Objective

Cobelfret was looking to improve backup performance and reliability, consolidate and centralize applications, and ensure failsafe operations by building two symmetrical data centers.

Approach

The HP solution includes:

  • HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA)
  • HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA Software
  • HP Data Protector Software
  • HP BladeSystem servers

Results

  • Cumulative, projected five-year net benefit of US$758,416, driven by improved productivity, and savings in IT maintenance and troubleshooting
  • ROI of 178% and a payback period of 34 months
  • Improved backup performance and reliability, greater application availability and less downtime

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