Wharfedale Announces Successful Migration and Consolidation of a Globally Recognized Apparel Manufacturer"s SAP landscape, leading to higher Efficiency and Cost Savings

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) August 28, 2012

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. is a leading SAP infrastructure consulting services and SAP Cloud Computing firm. Wharfedale has been providing SAP infrastructure solutions to a vast number of customers and vertical industries for over a decade which include, Architecting and Implementing SAP Disaster Recovery for 65 of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as delivering 62% of all SAP onto VBlock Migrations for SAP customers based in the US. Wharfedales highly focused SAP infrastructure expertise additionally extends into High Availability, Virtualization, Backup+Recovery, Landscape Optimizations and Managed Services. Wharfedales innovative solutions portfolio – ensured that the following apparel manufacturing | retail customer – was delivered optimal systems performance, minimal downtime – while maximizing their capital investment.

The customers landscapes consisted of SAP ERP 6.0 and BI 7.0 components running on HP-UX 11i and OS/400 DB2 5.4.5. The customer was exploring the viability of migrating and consolidating their new SAP landscape to Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) utilizing VBlock solution based on EMC, CISCO and VMware technologies in a Windows 2008/SQL 2008 environment.

Wharfedale performed Advanced SAP Landscape sizing for the customers VBlock environment based on the SAP application performance requirements. A virtual environment was then built using this design with Windows 2008 operating system, and SQL 2008 as database in a VMWare ESX 4.1 hypervisor environment on a VBlock. Wharfedale executed mock migrations from AS/400 DB2 platform to Windows 2008/SQL 2008 platform using SAP heterogeneous system copy procedures and industry best practices for migration. The actual production cutover was performed over the course of a weekend onto the new virtual platform for the ERP and BI components. The customer fully expect their VBlock to deliver robust performance needed for their business critical applications.

Apart from creating the SAP infrastructure and optimizing it for the SAP application, migration of server and storage platforms, tuning the SAP database, and improving their backup and recovery methodologies were some of the other services offered by Wharfedale Technologies to its apparel manufacturing customer.

The project brought about an overall:

Wharfedale Announces Successful Migration and Consolidation of a Globally Recognized Apparel Manufacturer"s SAP landscape, leading to higher Efficiency and Cost Savings

Wharfedale Announces Successful SAP Landscape Migration for a Major Pharmaceutical Company to Gain Greater Flexibility and Efficiency in Managing Business Operations

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) October 02, 2012

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. is a leading SAP infrastructure consulting services and SAP Cloud Computing firm. For over a decade, Wharfedale has been providing SAP infrastructure solutions, which includes the SAP Disaster Recovery, to a wide array of customers and vertical industries for 65 of the Fortune 100 companies. Wharfedales highly focused SAP infrastructure expertise extends into High Availability, Virtualization, Backup & Recovery, Landscape Optimizations and Managed Services. Wharfedales portfolio of innovative solutions delivered optimal systems performance, minimal downtime for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing customer while maximizing their capital investment.

The customers landscapes consisted of SAP ERP 6.0, BI 7.0 and SCM Livecache components running on IBM AIX. The customer was exploring the viability of migrating and consolidating their new SAP landscape to Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) utilizing VBlock solution based on EMC, CISCO and VMware technologies in a Linux/Oracle 11G RAC Grid environment.

Wharfedale performed Advanced SAP Landscape sizing for the customers VBlock environment based on the SAP application performance requirements. A virtual environment was then built using this design with Linux operating system, and Oracle 11G as database in a VMWare ESX 5.0 hypervisor environment on a VBlock. Wharfedale executed mock migrations from IBM AIX platform to Linux platform using SAP heterogeneous system copy procedures and industry best practices for migration. The actual production cutover was performed over the course of a weekend onto the new virtual platform for the ERP, BI and SCM Livecache components. The customer fully expects their VBlock to deliver robust performance needed for their business critical applications. Wharfedale was also involved in the Unicode conversion for ERP 6.0 and BI 7.0 components.

Apart from creating the SAP infrastructure and optimizing it for the SAP application, migration of server and storage platforms, tuning the SAP database, and improving their backup and recovery methodologies were some of the other services offered by Wharfedale Technologies to its pharmaceutical manufacturing customer. The project brought about an overall cost savings of around 35% and performance improvement by almost 60%.

About Wharfedale Technologies Inc.

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud) is a leading technology consulting firm specializing in SAP infrastructure integrations and services, as well as Private | Public | Hybrid Cloud solutions. As an SAP Certified provider of cloud services, Wharfedale offers SAP solutions around – high availability, disaster recovery, advanced sizing for virtualization, Basis administration & operations, backup & recovery Integration, systems refresh automation and landscape optimization.

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Wharfedale Announces Successful SAP Landscape Migration for a Major Pharmaceutical Company to Gain Greater Flexibility and Efficiency in Managing Business Operations

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) December 18, 2012 Wharfedale Technologies customer is a transportation company based in Canada, which owns approximately 14,000 (22,500 km) route miles of rail-tracks all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves major cities in the United States, such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. The client has utilized SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for nearly a decade to manage its Financial and Enterprise resource operations. Over the years, the client has deployed major SAP components such as SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI), CRM, SRM, PI, EM, TM and Enterprise Portal systems. There are multiple production instances deployed across the corporation, all of these SAP instances were installed on Microsoft Windows based technologies with SQL Server as the database. The SAP landscape is hosted at a vendor data center and managed by the vendor. Increasing demand for a dynamic IT environment to support growing business needs had led the client to undertake a complex and intensive SAP data migration from the vendor hosting facilities on the legacy IT infrastructure practices to a robust high-performing environment using Vblock Wharfedale Technologies Announces the Successful SAP Production Landscape Data Migration to Private Cloud, in Record Time, for a Canadian Transportation Giant

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) December 18, 2012

Wharfedale Technologies customer is a transportation company based in Canada, which owns approximately 14,000 (22,500 km) route miles of rail-tracks all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves major cities in the United States, such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City.

The client has utilized SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for nearly a decade to manage its Financial and Enterprise resource operations. Over the years, the client has deployed major SAP components such as SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI), CRM, SRM, PI, EM, TM and Enterprise Portal systems. There are multiple production instances deployed across the corporation, all of these SAP instances were installed on Microsoft Windows based technologies with SQL Server as the database. The SAP landscape is hosted at a vendor data center and managed by the vendor. Increasing demand for a dynamic IT environment to support growing business needs had led the client to undertake a complex and intensive SAP data migration from the vendor hosting facilities on the legacy IT infrastructure practices to a robust high-performing environment using Vblock

Wharfedale Technologies Announces the Successful SAP Production Landscape Data Migration to Private Cloud, in Record Time, for a Canadian Transportation Giant