Saint-Gobain Group Reduces Expected Branch Server Investment by 97% with Nomad
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- Europe
国家
- France
产品
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr)
- Nomad
技术栈
- WAN Optimization
- Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
- Reverse QoS™
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 设备管理平台
适用行业
- 建筑与基础设施
- 消费品
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 维护
用例
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Established in 1665, Saint-Gobain Group is the world leader in the habitat and construction markets. It designs, manufactures and distributes building material and provides innovative solutions to meet the growing demand for energy efficiency and environmental protection. Present in 64 countries around the world, Saint-Gobain has almost 190,000 employees. There are 1700 subsidiaries and it is present in more than 6000 distinct geographical locations.
挑战
Saint-Gobain needed an efficient way to deploy software patches and upgrades to 100,000 desktops across 6000 branch offices. Managing the IT network and architecture for a multinational organization of this magnitude is a sizeable task. The PC Solution Team is responsible for delivering all the tools to manage the company’s 100,000 workstations. In 2008 the team chose to implement Microsoft Systems Management Platform across the group to create better collaboration and improve productivity. The standard architecture for the Microsoft platform is for each geo-location to have a dedicated, or ‘branch’ server. For Saint-Gobain this would have meant investing in, and maintaining at least 6000 servers. The PC team sought an alternative solution that would avoid having to put a server into each branch office. The team decided to research the possibility of using SCCM and Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) GPO and found a considerable reduction of servers would be possible but that they would still require a 1,000-strong server farm.
解决方案
Mark Cochrane, an independent consultant, suggested that the team look at Nomad from 1E. Using spare network bandwidth, the tool delivers operating system upgrades, software deployments, and patches safely and securely to thousands of PCs and servers day or night with zero disruption on the network. This solution removes the need for branch servers or desk-side visits – reducing existing server footprint and administrative overheads. The team immediately understood that this solution matched their requirements. During the evaluation period, it soon became apparent that distribution of software, OS upgrades, and deployments was working perfectly. The testing phase was over a period of four to six weeks. Nomad has given Saint-Gobain a new, more efficient way to distribute packages across their network. They quickly realized the positive impact this solution had on their business on a few early occasions when packages were sent in the old way. Without Nomad, significantly more bandwidth is required to push an image over the network. They were getting calls from Saint-Gobain Telecom alerting them to instances of inefficient bandwidth usage and they made the connection when they spotted that the packages in question had not been sent via Nomad.
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