IBM Systems Case Study Industrial Products Severstal Meeting the needs of a growing SAP environment with smart IBM storage Overview The need As Severstal extends its SAP landscape, the data in its systems is growing rapidly. How could it build a fast, scalable new storage architecture—without r ippin g-a n d-r eplacin g its e xis tin g systems? The solution Working with IBM, Severstal built a new tiered storage architecture that harnesses compression and virtualization technologies to run the SAP landscape on high-p erformance IBM® FlashSystemTM storage. The benefit SAP response speeds are twice as fast, and the salary calculation process has been accelerated from 12 hours to five. Compression frees up to 66 percent more space in the SAP environment. Severstal is one

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