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PROVIDING HIGH RELIABILITY AND
HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR A GLOBAL SAP
DEPLOYMENT
—Dow Corning Corporation—
Established in 1943 to explore the potential of silicones,
today Dow Corning has 10,000 employees and provides
performance-enhancing solutions to serve the diverse
needs of more than 20,000 customers worldwide. A global
leader in silicon-based technology and innovation, Dow
Corning offers more than 7,000 products and services.
Unlike many global companies, Dow Corning runs a
single, centralized IT infrastructure for the entire company,
and runs a single instance of SAP for its enterprise resource
planning (ERP) solution. The company has only two enterprise data centers—a primary site and a disaster recovery site—and
both are in the US. While this configuration significantly simplifies IT management, it also makes high availability an imperative.
For this reason, Dow Corning has, over the years, continued to increase its reliance on Fujitsu server and storage products. Today,
approximately 90% of the company’s Unix-based database and application servers are Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers, while
approximately 75% of the company’s storage systems are Fujitsu ETERNUS.
The Fujitsu servers have proven so reliable that Dow Corning does not deploy clustering technology to avoid downtime;
since downtime is simply not an issue, there is no justification for added cost and complexity. In addition to keeping users
around the world productive, the reliability and high availability of Fujitsu servers enables Dow Corning to maintain an effi-
cient IT staff and lower operational costs.
But the Fujitsu story at Dow Corning does not stop with reliability. Regular benchmarking validates that Fujitsu servers
and storage solutions continue to deliver the high performance Dow Corning requires, and the company continues to value
and trust Fujitsu for its ability to deliver such high-availability hardware at prices that beat its competitors.
Thanks to the performance, reliability and value of Fujitsu products, Dow Corning relies on PRIMEPOWER servers and
ETERNUS storage systems for its SAP deployment.
IT MARKET FORECASTS
AMERICAS
(Billions of Dollars)
(Source: IDC’s Worldwide IT Spending Patterns: The
Worldwide Black Book Q1 2008)
(AMERICAS: North and South America)
NEXTGENERATION SONET MARKET
SHARE IN NORTH AMERICA
REVENUE BASIS
Fujitsu
28.0%
(Source: Ovum-RHK, March 2008)
Company A 22.0%
Company B 17.0%
Company C 16.0%
Company D 3.0%
Company E 3.0%
Others 11.0%
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ANNUAL REPORT 2008FUJITSU LIMITED
FEATURE 2: ACCELERATING GLOBAL EXPANSION