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CLIENT

Computer Sciences

Corporation (CSC)

CHALLENGE

Offer reliable pay as you

go cloud services both on

and off site

SOLUTION

Vblock Systems

RESULTS

Deliver complete cloud

infrastructures in 10 weeks

while increasing business

pipeline 500 percent in8 months

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER

www.vce.com

VBLOCK DRIVES ENTERPRISE CLOUD

GROWTH FOR CSC

FORTUNE 150 SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR DELIVERS CLOUD SOLUTIONS

OPTIMIZED FOR BUSINESS-CRITICAL ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS.

Maintaining market leadership in the IT out-sourcing and cloud service business

requires IT agility and an ability to innovate. As CSC saw growing demand for IT as

a Service and pay as you go models, the company knew it would need to meet

that demand with new cloud services built on a new IT environment. A Fortune

150 company, with annual revenue of $16.2 billion, CSC had been operating 41 data

centers and providing both off-premise and on-premise solutions to companies

worldwide. To launch its new portfolio of cloud and cyber security services, CSC

needed reliable solutions from a company it could trust.

CSC realized that being able to provision new capacity and bring customers

onboard quickly would give them an important market first advantage.

However, they also knew that their cloud service customers would need a reliableinfrastructure capable of handling high numbers of transactions and large amounts

of data. Because the system would host SAP, Oracle, Exchange and other enterprise

applications, they needed the highest levels of security and availability. CSC would

be locating new service centers in several countries and realized that a standardized

infrastructure would offer significant business benefit.

The Vblock Systems offered rapid deployment and provisioning

in a family of products that could scale as the business grew. The

platform is optimized to deliver performance at scale for mission

critical workloads and offers industry leading data protection

solutions. Now, CSC relies on the Vblock System to provide trusted

cloud services that deliver on the as a service promise to

reduce customer risk and improve business agility.

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VCE is much more than

a vendor. They stand

alongside us in the field with

unified pre-sales and post-

sales support, and work with

us through every stage of

solution development. When

our customers see our

close partnership with VCE,

it gives them confidence

in our cloud offerings

and makes us stronger

competitively.

Siki Giunta, Vice

President, Cloud Computing

and Software Services CSC

The Challenge

CSC had been integrating multi-vendor

infrastructures in-house to meet the

demanding SLAs of its clients hosted

applications. While this business model

worked well for traditional outsourcing,

it was becoming clear that it would not

work for the new CloudCompute andBizCloud business.

The cloud services value proposition

would include very rapid on-

boarding of new customers, tailored

cloud solutions, and compliance

with in-country data governance

requirements, along with management

and automation capabilities that

would dramatically improve

application operations.

To accomplish this, CSC needed a new

infrastructureone that was purpose-

built for cloud deployments and would

enable them to rapidly scale and

provision new services to clients.

The Solution

After evaluating solutions from several

competitors, CSC standardized on

Vblock systems as the foundation of

its CloudCompute and CSC BizCloud

solutions. CloudCompute is a standard

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in

all CSC cloud data centers and serves

as the IaaS layer of CSC BizCloud.

The ease with which Vblock system

capacity can be provisioned and

reclaimed ensures that this innovative

private cloud solution can be rapidly

deployed on a customers premises

and billed as a service.

The Vblock systems are uniquely

capable of supporting highly

virtualized mixed workload, multi-

tenant environments. From redundantcontrollers and integrated patch

release to industry-leading data

protection products, Vblock systems

are designed to deliver the highest

levels of availability.

Business-critical enterprise applications,

including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft

Exchange, and SharePoint, run on

the Vblock systems to provide CSCs

clients with superior performance,

availability, data protection and

scalability in the cloud. The Vblock

systems provide CSCs clients with

elastic pools of computing and storage

optimized for enterprise, custom, and

vertical applications running business-critical workloads.

The Results

With Vblock systems, CSC gains secure

and predictable performance through

pre-engineered, modular infrastructures

that enable standardized processes

and operations. This provides CSC with

faster development and deployment

of applications, improved utilization,

and lower operational costs, along with

substantial competitive advantages:

Because Vblock systems are pre-

integrated and pre-tested, CSC can roll

out complete cloud infrastructures in

just 10 weeks, enabling them to attract

new accounts and increase the new

business pipeline by more than 500

percent in just eight months.

Because VCE systems are standardized

CSC can easily package additional

software capabilities and expand

its market to new geos through third

party channels.

Vblock systems deliver the performance

and capacity for CSCs demanding

enterprise applications while meeting

the clouds data residency and data

latency requirements.

CSC can confidently offer competitive

service-level agreements (SLAs)

with full monetary recourse for its

cloud solutions.

CSC now has the largest cloud footprin

of any cloud provider with capabilities

on 4 continents.

Looking ahead, CSC is assured its

Vblock systems will enable smooth,

reliable and efficient growth for its

own business as well as its clients.

www.vce.com THE WORLDS MOST ADVANCED CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE