1. 1© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SAP Data Center Consolidation Mediaprint moves to active-active virtualized data centers Challenge  Disparate storage infrastructure did not provide adequate performance, availability or virtualization support  Lack of redundancy put company at risk of slow recovery Solution  EMC VNX, FAST 1st  VPLEX Metro  VMware Results  Improved SAP application response times by 300 percent  500 percent increase in data warehouse performance  Consolidated 20 storage arrays to 2 on EMC VNX  Five-nines availability though active-active data centers Applications  SAP  Oracle  Oracle RAC “SAP is very important to us because we’re doing our advertising management in SAP. With EMC VNX and FAST Cache we have seen in some applications 300 percent improvement in response times.” FERDINAND KARNER Head of Systems And Base Services

2. 2© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Flash 1 st Boosts SAP Performance 95% James Hardie accelerates performance, provisioning, recovery Challenge  Rapidly growing data growth impacting performance  Sprawling physical infrastructure overwhelming lead IT resources Solution  EMC VNX/VNXe/FAST 1st  VMware  EMC RecoverPoint Results  Reduce response times from more than 20 milliseconds to less than 1 millisecond  Accelerated SAP server deployment from months to days  Enable 4 hour RTO to 1 hour RPO for streamlined recovery Applications  SAP ERP, BW, Netweaver  Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint “EMC’s strong relationship with SAP weighed heavily in our decision. We’re running at 25 percent utilization in our storage instead of 99 percent like before, allowing us to grow without hitting performance roadblocks.” STEVE KILLAN Enterprise Server Manager

3. 3© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Improve SAP Service Delivery On vBlock West Pharma cuts deployment times and optimizes SAP backups Challenge  Global expansion and data center growth required consolidation of IT and greater data protection  Tape based backup could not backup SAP within 24 hours Solution  vBlock Systems  Avamar and Data Domain  RecoverPoint Results  Reduced data center footprint by 50 percent and reduced amount of hardware support needed with vBlock Systems  Accelerated SAP service delivery from months to a few hours  Cut SAP backup times from days to hours Applications  SAP ERP  Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint “With the Vblock System our SAP team had Supply Chain Management live in less than 90 days versus six months previously. With Data Domain we have reduced SAP backup from 26 hours to 3 hours.” JAMES HOUSTON Vice President Shared IT Services