Grupo Villar Mir
One of Spain’s Largest Conglomerates Gets Mainframe Reliability and Power with Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 and Solaris 10Grupo Villar Mir, headquartered in Madrid, is one of the largest Spanish conglomerates, with an international presence in 16 countries on 4 continents and business relations with 43 other countries. The company’s subsidiaries are in the construction, fertilizer and electric power generation businesses. Customer Challenges
SolutionGrupo Villar Mir migrated the business systems of its various subsidiaries onto a single, powerful Sun server that offers higher speed, capacity, and stability—along with lower maintenance, controlled costs and an open-system architecture that won’t limit the company’s ability to grow and adjust to change. Business Results
Story DetailsIn an age of increasing global competition, Grupo Villar Mir has maintained a strong commitment to information technology, as a strategic weapon for the continued expansion of its business. However, as it adds new business lines and fends off rivals throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, the company must avoid becoming trapped on an inflexible IT platform or dependent on a particular vendor. Grupo Villar Mir has placed itself at the technological vanguard in Spain by being the first company to acquire the latest-generation server platform, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, running the Solaris 10 Operating System. With processing power of one teraflop (one one trillion floating-point instructions per second), the platform will service the more than 15,000 users of the Group and will manage more than 1.8 million business transactions daily.
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With the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, we enjoy unparalleled response times, the highest ratios of security, performance and flexibility, and costs that are nearly 50 percent less than former platforms.
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— Carlos Lafitte, Advisor, IT Space (technology subsidiary of Grupo Villar Mir)
The system will be the nucleus of the datacenter, which the Group is installing in its new quarters, Torre Espacio, the symbolic “Space Tower” skyscraper of Madrid. From there, it will manage the activity of all its subsidiaries, including leaders in metals, fertilizer, construction, real estate and information technology. Sun's SPARC Enterprise M9000 server will replace a Sun Enterprise 10000 system, and through dynamic domains, will consolidate some of the infrastructure distributed in other geographical areas. The SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with SPARC 64-bit processors delivers the latest generation of technology including greater dependability, availability and performance like traditional mainframes—while providing all the advantages of open systems. Grupo Villar Mir enjoys predictable and controlled costs, a drastic reduction in server platform complexity and guaranteed flexibility to choose future technological commitments. The installation also includes SunSpectrum support services and maintenance for the platform. Grupo Villar Mir will experience maximum levels of performance and security using the SPARC Enterprise M9000 system. The platform offers unbeatable performance with functions such as Predictive Self-Healing and Automatic System Recovery features: identifying and isolating possible problems, and even providing precise instructions when it is necessary to perform repairs. With two terabytes of memory, the system delivers guaranteed data error protection and data path integrity. It has been specifically designed to service large companies and organizations like Grupo Villar Mir with mission-critical business applications, which require a higher level of performance and continuous availability 24x7. Its advanced functions of virtualization, similar to those of a mainframe environment, make Sun Enterprise M9000 servers the most advanced Sun consolidation systems to date, with 50 percent faster performance than the previous UltraSPARC processor-based servers—making them an ideal choice for the Group. |
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