Applied Extrusion Technologies Wraps Up Major ROI With HP Storage 150+ Percent Return on Investment

Overview

As one of the world's leading makers of Oriented PolyPropylene (OPP) films Applied Extrusion Technologies (AET) is highly sensitive to the rising costs of oil-derived OPP resins. The increased pressure on AET's IT infrastructure pushed its clustered EMC-based SAN systems to their limit. AET needed an easy-to-use, highly available SAN - and quickly. The company was under continuing pressure from rising oil prices; AET couldn't afford any lag in the delivery of new cost-saving applications, or the imminent prospect of increased SAN support costs. After a careful analysis using a proprietary decision matrix and working with its long-time HP support team AET migrated from EMC to HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array storage area networks, StorageWorks MSL tape libraries, and HP OpenView Storage Data Protector software.