DataXstream Virtualizes Lumber Liquidators’ SAP Landscape
Virtualization Project OverviewDataXstream LLC and Lumber Liquidators have announced a business relationship in which Lumber Liquidators has purchased a completely virtualized SAP platform from DataXstream built on VMware and Dell EqualLogic. Lumber Liquidators’ SAP NeedsLumber Liquidators acquired SAP to automate all their back-office processes. Prior to implementation, they were instructed to deploy a hardware platform that would support not only the initial implementation, but incremental growth for the next 3 years. As a new implementation, they were also concerned with minimizing total project cost, delivering high availability and consistent performance to an unknown number of users, and be easily maintainable by a streamlined IT staff. SAP Virtualization SolutionLumber Liquidators turned to DataXstream, an SAP professional services organization focused on technical consulting and integration, with particular skills in landscape design and implementation. After reviewing the business requirements and technical constraints, DataXstream proposed, and then deployed a completely virtualized SAP environment, covering Development, Quality Assurance, and Production landscapes. The resultant solution exceeded the needs requested by Lumber Liquidators:
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- Leveraging DataXstream’s longstanding expertise in SAP, the solution was tuned specifically to support current SAP needs, while remaining flexible enough to grow incrementally as new deployment phases started.
- Utilizing VMware features such as DRS, SRM, and HA, the solution insured consistent SAP response to users, even during scheduled maintenance, or fail-over conditions.
As a result of working with DataXstream, Lumber Liquidators met their implementation timelines, budgetary forecasts, and improved the chance of adoption by its user community. Simultaneously the choice enabled its IT team to easily support the landscape without having to add more resources.
