hendrick automotive group customer spotlight dec 2012

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Hendrick Automotive Group

“I couldn’t appreciate the value of Cisco Unified Data Center solutions until I saw them in action. In the time that it would ordinarily have taken just to mount a single server, we’d completed the entire configuration. Now there’s no question that UCS was the right approach for our data center, and that Cisco was the right partner.”

Robert Taylor, Vice President of Information Technology, Hendrick Automotive Group

• Industry: Car sales and service

• Employees: 8,000+

• Location: Charlotte, NC with 85 dealerships across the U.S.

• Second-largest privately held automotive dealership group and sixth-largest automotive dealership in the U.S. overall in 2011

• In 2011, sales exceeded 120,000 vehicles and $4.9B USD in revenue

• Offers vehicle sales, service, financing, parts, and more

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Providing always-on availability and responsiveness to staff and

customers

• Delivering high-performance resources

• Reducing infrastructure and operating costs

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Using end-to-end Cisco data center, network, and desktop

virtualization solutions with NetApp storage and VMware software, the company could create a highly reliable, scalable environment within both its data centers to support its rapidly growing business

BENEFITS• Accelerated new application deployment times from weeks to

days

• Boosted IT staff productivity by more than 30 percent

• Helped to transform data center from a cost center to a revenue center

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS B230 and C200 Servers

• Cisco Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

• Cisco 6120 Fabric Interconnects

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Switches

• Cisco 3845 Routers

• Cisco Unified Computing System Manger

• Cisco ASA Adaptive Security Appliance

• Applications: Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server; Oracle Hyperion Financial Management; Solomon

• Storage: NetApp

• Virtualization: VMware