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Dynamic IT Infrastructure Re-energizes Power Catalyst

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Challenge	Power Catalyst needed a solution that can support massive amounts of mission-critical data with no disruption for customers. Antiquated system wasn’t scalable and couldn’t support disaster recovery and could not deploy applications on a service basis with a quick turnaround. Read More
About Customer	Power Catalyst manages wholesale energy data in competitive power markets. Customers include grid operators and Fortune 500 energy generation companies. Read More
Customer Name	Power Catalyst Read More
Solution	Power Catalyst chose NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure products to meet its needs for virtualization, reliability and power conservation. Working with nDataStor, an established NEC provider, Power Catalyst purchased and deployed NEC D-Series SAN Storage and NEC Express5800/SIGMABLADE servers. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Communication Performance, Energy Consumption Rate, Power Consumption, Process Procedure Read More Log in to view content
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Challenge

Power Catalyst needed a solution that can support massive amounts of mission-critical data with no disruption for customers. Antiquated system wasn’t scalable and couldn’t support disaster recovery and could not deploy applications on a service basis with a quick turnaround.

About Customer

Power Catalyst manages wholesale energy data in competitive power markets. Customers include grid operators and Fortune 500 energy generation companies.

Customer Name

Power Catalyst

Solution

Power Catalyst chose NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure products to meet its needs for virtualization, reliability and power conservation. Working with nDataStor, an established NEC provider, Power Catalyst purchased and deployed NEC D-Series SAN Storage and NEC Express5800/SIGMABLADE servers.

Data Collected

Communication Performance, Energy Consumption Rate, Power Consumption, Process Procedure

Impact #1	[Data Management - Data Analysis] Cloud solutions enable aggregation of 'big data' to enable more robust analysis and lower costs.
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - Energy] The amount of energy used in production processes can be lowered and made more efficient.
Impact #3	[Management Effectiveness - Internal Collaboration] Deeper integration of information across departments and business units improves internal collaboration and end-to-end customer service.

Impact #1

[Data Management - Data Analysis]
Cloud solutions enable aggregation of 'big data' to enable more robust analysis and lower costs.

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - Energy]
The amount of energy used in production processes can be lowered and made more efficient.

Impact #3

[Management Effectiveness - Internal Collaboration]
Deeper integration of information across departments and business units improves internal collaboration and end-to-end customer service.

Benefit #1	Power consumption reduced by 50%.
Benefit #2	The solution provides 40% better performance than expected.
Benefit #3	It is expected to achieve 1 million IOPS by year-end.

Benefit #1

Power consumption reduced by 50%.

Benefit #2

The solution provides 40% better performance than expected.

Benefit #3

It is expected to achieve 1 million IOPS by year-end.

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Dynamic IT Infrastructure Re-energizes Power Catalyst

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