Case Study: Revlon achieves private-cloud agility and 99.9999% uptime with NetApp

How Revlon IT harnessed big data with a private cloud and global master data model

Revlon, the global beauty company, faced a fragmented, costly IT landscape: business intelligence buried across 21 separate ERP systems, slow application delivery, limited connectivity on the factory floor, and mounting overhead that constrained agility across product development, manufacturing, and distribution.

Revlon rebuilt IT as a private cloud using NetApp storage, server/desktop virtualization, insourced disaster recovery with SnapMirror, and a global master data model with FlexClone-enabled datasets. The result: a compact 3.6PB infrastructure running ~800 virtual servers with 99.9999% uptime and 14,000 TPS, a 56% server consolidation, 72% lower data center power use, more than $70M in savings/avoidance, 425% more IT projects, 70% faster application deployment, and near-instant disaster recovery demonstrated during real incidents.

Revlon

David Giambruno

Senior Vice President and CIO