CASE STUDY bBusiness benefits
With Nutanix by its side , Mercedes-Benz Brazil is meeting changing business demands with more speed , availability and reduced costs . The automotive leader ’ s new hyperconverged infrastructure has helped IT teams substantially reduce data center space , automate timeconsuming processes , perform faster upgrades and installations and simplify system management .
Challenge
In operation for over 60 years , Mercedes-Benz has four plants in Brazil ( located in São Bernardo do Campo , Campinas , Iracemápolis and Juiz de Fora ) and more than 10,000 employees across the country . axles . The pioneering company has always continually invested in the improvement of its systems .
Responsible for servers , storage and backup for the truck and commercial vehicle divisions , Eduardo Ungaretti , CIO , Mercedes-Benz Brazil , said : “ We are always looking for new solutions for systems , for greater agility , to be able to provide better tools and better access for our staff and our customers . With more agility we can enter the market faster and launch new products quicker – so we need to have an infrastructure that is agile , of course .”
Before Nutanix , the IT team at Mercedes-Benz Brazil had always worked with legacy applications running in three layers .
As the only automotive company that operates in all industry segments in Latin America , Mercedes-Benz manufactures automobiles , light commercial vehicles , trucks , as well as producing gearboxes , engines and
“ We had a traditional three-tier environment , with a server and SAN Storage network ,” said Ungaretti . With slow upgrades and installations requiring a lot of manpower , these legacy systems were no longer
WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR
NEW SOLUTIONS FOR SYSTEMS , FOR GREATER AGILITY , TO BE ABLE TO
PROVIDE BETTER
TOOLS AND BETTER ACCESS FOR OUR STAFF
AND OUR CUSTOMERS .
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