Russian auto manufacturer AutoVAZ test drives the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4860 and places it firmly on its roadmap. AutoVAZ is one of Russia’s largest auto manufacturers. Founded in the 1960s following a collaboration with Italian manufacturer Fiat, the company has grown into a worldwide player in the automotive market segment. In early 2011, the Renault-Nissan alliance increased its stake in AutoVAZ to 25 percent. In practical terms, this meant more information sharing among the three manufacturers, as each seeks to use designs and specifications from each other to manufacture cars. Within this context, AutoVAZ wanted to upgrade its servers and information systems that ran its mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. It turned to the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4860 to power these new servers. Challenges • Server upgrade: AutoVAZ has hundreds of servers that run mission-critical infrastructure applications, and it wanted to gain better performance and ensure easier management. • Auto partnership: An alliance with Renault-Nissan became imperative to the upgrade, since sharing information such as engine specifications across the three companies is central to the partnership. Solutions • Test drive: The company tested the Intel Xeon processor E7-4860 for performance of mission-critical applications. • Six to one: ERP workloads, online transaction processing (OLTP), and online analytical processing (OLAP) all improved by a factor of six to one. • Twenty to one: It achieved a virtualization ratio of approximately 20 virtual servers to one physical server. Impact • Initial roll-out: Performance increase and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) led AutoVAZ to evaluate the deployment of four-socket HP Integrity* blade servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7-4860. • Wider deployment: In 2012 the company plans to extend the deployment by adding more blade and rack-mounted servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7 family. • Global success: The server upgrade underpins the success of the Renault-Nissan partnership, which is based on exchanging information for auto manufacturing across three continents.
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Russian auto manufacturer AutoVAZ test drives the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4860 and places it firmly on its roadmap. AutoVAZ is one of Russia’s largest auto manufacturers. Founded in the 1960s following a collaboration with Italian manufacturer Fiat, the company has grown into a worldwide player in the automotive market segment. In early 2011, the Renault-Nissan alliance increased its stake in AutoVAZ to 25 percent. In practical terms, this meant more information sharing among the three manufacturers, as each seeks to use designs and specifications from each other to manufacture cars. Within this context, AutoVAZ wanted to upgrade its servers and information systems that ran its mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. It turned to the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4860 to power these new servers. Challenges • Server upgrade: AutoVAZ has hundreds of servers that run mission-critical infrastructure applications, and it wanted to gain better performance and ensure easier management. • Auto partnership: An alliance with Renault-Nissan became imperative to the upgrade, since sharing information such as engine specifications across the three companies is central to the partnership. Solutions • Test drive: The company tested the Intel Xeon processor E7-4860 for performance of mission-critical applications. • Six to one: ERP workloads, online transaction processing (OLTP), and online analytical processing (OLAP) all improved by a factor of six to one. • Twenty to one: It achieved a virtualization ratio of approximately 20 virtual servers to one physical server. Impact • Initial roll-out: Performance increase and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) led AutoVAZ to evaluate the deployment of four-socket HP Integrity* blade servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7-4860. • Wider deployment: In 2012 the company plans to extend the deployment by adding more blade and rack-mounted servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7 family. • Global success: The server upgrade underpins the success of the Renault-Nissan partnership, which is based on exchanging information for auto manufacturing across three continents.
