MasterCard Standardizes On EMC Storage Infrastructure
MasterCard Relies on EMC to Ensure Access and Availability for Card Members, Manage Complex IT Environment and Reduce Costs
HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2001-- EMC Corporation announced today that MasterCard International has standardized on EMC information storage systems and software to speed daily processing of tens of millions of financial card transactions, boost online availability of information to member banks and reduce costs of managing growing storage capacities.
In the last three years, MasterCard has nearly tripled its EMC information infrastructure to over 130 terabytes while keeping the overall cost of information management virtually unchanged. Most recently, the company completed a large migration of information from non-EMC storage systems onto EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems in order to consolidate its information infrastructure at MasterCard's new Global Technology and Operations facility in O'Fallon, Missouri.
``Information, and instantaneous access to that information, is the backbone of MasterCard's business,'' said Jerry McElhatton, MasterCard's President, Global Technology and Operations. ``In the past, our information was fragmented and disconnected. Now, with EMC as the foundation of our information infrastructure, we are able to erase roadblocks to information and begin harnessing centrally managed information to make better decisions and be more responsive to our customers. Increased availability of our online information allows our member banks to conduct more targeted and successful marketing campaigns, while high performance assures our cardholders of reliable and rapid turnaround of their transactions.''
``Availability is one of MasterCard's top priorities,'' said David Donatelli, EMC's Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing and New Business Development. ``When a MasterCard customer swipes a card to conduct a transaction, they expect the transaction to be processed anywhere, at anytime, and all the time. Without an information infrastructure in place to support the tremendous growth of information at MasterCard, the access and availability of that information is in jeopardy and its business is at risk.''
Consolidation
Understanding the need for rapid access to information and ease of management, MasterCard recently consolidated approximately 50TBs of mission critical information onto EMC information storage from multiple environments, including mainframe, Unix and NT. The consolidation took place when MasterCard moved its information from one data center in St. Louis, Missouri to MasterCard's Technology and Operations facility located 30 miles away in O'Fallon, Missouri. EMC Global Services assisted MasterCard in migrating data residing on Hitachi, IBM, Sun and Amdahl storage onto EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems for better performance, availability and management. The information was then transferred to the Symmetrix systems located in the new data center using EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) remote mirroring software.
``The consolidation of our data center was enormously complex since it involved transferring data across hundreds of different MasterCard systems onto an EMC infrastructure,'' McElhatton said. ``EMC's Global Services and advanced software played a huge role in making the effort absolutely flawless. We conducted the move of a tremendous amount of information in 48 hours, with no disruption to our banks, retailers and cardholders. If we had chosen an alternative storage solution, the move would have taken months longer and resulted in significantly higher costs to our business and customers.''
Cost- Efficiencies
Jim Hull, MasterCard's Vice President, Engineering Services, noted the cost efficiencies an EMC networked storage infrastructure provides. ``EMC leads the entire industry in storage manageability. The advanced architecture of EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage systems and software makes it cost-efficient to grow our information infrastructure even as it becomes more complex. Our EMC information storage capacity has grown to 130 terabytes in three years, yet our people costs associated with managing this information have increased very little.''
Hull also noted several areas in MasterCard's operations where EMC software and EMC storage have provided significant availability and cost-related improvements. ``We have reduced the number of outages and, in some cases, eliminated certain sources of downtime. With EMC TimeFinder software, we are able to create backup copies of our Oracle databases as they are running, cutting the time to perform backups in one case from up to 18 hours to thirty minutes. We're also completing a quarterly update of a major data warehouse in three days when it used to take almost two weeks.''
EMC Throughout the Enterprise
MasterCard has successfully standardized on EMC and is committed to an enterprise storage strategy with EMC at the core of its IT infrastructure. EMC Celerra networked-attached storage, which is replacing Sun NFS, will provide a high availability environment for home directories, data warehousing, and software distribution. MasterCard also has implemented
EMC CLARiiON FC4700 storage for testing and development of applications supporting regional authorization initiatives. The CLARiiON will be networked into the same EMC Connectrix fibre-switches linked to EMC Symmetrix storage systems to create an EMC Enterprise Storage Network (ESN).
MasterCard's EMC infrastructure is located primarily in the new data center in O' Fallon, Missouri, but also includes EMC systems installed in a data center in Purchase, N.Y., where MasterCard's corporate headquarters are located, and a disaster recovery site in upstate New York. The EMC information infrastructure supports MasterCard's wide range of computing platforms, including IBM UNIX, IBM mainframe, Sun Solaris, and Hewlett-Packard Windows NT. MasterCard has installed EMC advanced software, including EMC SRDF, TimeFinder, InfoMover, Volume Logix, ESN Manager, PowerPath, ControlCenter, and ResourceView.
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