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SAP Migration Gives SMS Demag AG Next-Generation Storage Management

Overview SMS Demag AG is a leading international supplier of plants and equipment for the metallurgy industry. The company aimed at migration of the SAP landscape, including installation of a future-safe storage infrastructure. The company's goals were to lower operating costs, reduce downtime, and greater flexibility for handling new business requirements. SMS Demag AG deployed uniform, high-availability Fibre Channel (FC) SAN infrastructure based on a NetApp FAS960 MetroCluster system and Intelligent software for simple, flexible administration as well as automated backup and recovery.

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Publisher	Network Appliance (NetApp)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Storage Management, SANs, Fibre

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