Customer Challenges: -Rapid increase in number of customers driving significant data center growth. -Costs exceeded ability to stay ahead of this growth. -Increasing disaster recovery demands among customers intensified data center requirements. Solution: -Finance advanced, right-sized NetApp storage infrastructure through NetApp Capital Solutions, with flexible, affordable upgrade path. -Support entire portfolio of cloud ERP services with NetApp storage technologies in primary and secondary data centers.

1. Plex Systems Turns to NetApp
Capital Solutions, Delivers
World-Class ERP Cloud
Another NetApp
solution delivered by:
Customer Profile Benefits
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Plex Systems, Inc. is the developer of  Averted $2.7 million in up-front
Plex Online, a software as a service investment while enabling leading-
Customer (SaaS) enterprise resource planning edge storage solution for its SaaS
 Plex Systems, Inc. (ERP) solution for the manufacturing cloud.
 Auburn Hills, Michigan enterprise. Plex Online offers industry-  Repurposed investment for marketing
 www.plex.com leading features for virtually every and sales activities that help grow the
 Industry: Manufacturing Software department within a manufacturer. business.
Founded in 1995, Plex Systems is  Reinforces company objective to
NetApp Partner
headquartered in Auburn Hills, refresh IT environment every three
 FusionStorm
Michigan, with customers around the years to maintain a state-of-the-art
 www.fusionstorm.com
globe. data center for cloud ERP services.
“NetApp Capital Solutions helps  Decreased recovery-point and
Customer Challenges recovery-time objectives from 24 to 2
us deliver our services from a  Rapid increase in number of hours.
world-class data center while customers driving significant data  Differentiates company with unrivaled
freeing up budget to invest in center growth. disaster recovery practices for
marketing and sales activities that  Costs exceeded ability to stay ahead protecting customers’ vital
help our company grow.” of this growth. manufacturing data and day-to-day
Michael T. Twarozynski
 Increasing disaster recovery operations.
Senior Vice President of Operations and
demands among customers  Doubled terabytes managed per
Finance intensified data center requirements. storage administrator through
Plex Systems, Inc. advanced storage technologies and a
Solution
unified storage platform.
Products and Services  Finance advanced, right-sized
 NetApp FAS6280, FAS6070, and NetApp storage infrastructure Environment
FAS3270 storage systems through NetApp Capital Solutions,  Applications: VMware vSphere 4.1,
 NetApp Snapshot™ technology, with flexible, affordable upgrade path. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007
SnapRestore®  Support entire portfolio of cloud ERP  Databases: Microsoft SQL Server®
 NetApp SnapMirror, SnapVault services with NetApp storage 2008
 NetApp SnapManager for technologies in primary and  Operating System: Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange secondary data centers. Windows 2008
 NetApp FlexClone®  Protocols: Fibre Channel
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