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Beiersdorf Cuts Costs and Boosts Resilience With IBM System Z and DB2 for SAP Software

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Overview Beiersdorf AG is a cosmetics group with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company develops, manufactures and markets skincare and beauty products under a number of high-profile brands, including Nivea and Labello. To support its parent group's lean production model, Beiersdorf Shared Services (BSS) needs to demonstrate internal efficiency while providing excellent performance and availability for its SAP software environment. As existing database servers ran out of capacity, BSS wanted to increase headroom while reducing costs. BSS implemented two IBM System z9 Enterprise Class servers and System Storage DS8100 storage servers at separate data centers, running IBM DB2 databases to support the SAP software environment.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Storage Management, Database Applications

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