Case Study: Canon U.S.A. achieves full data center visibility and streamlined asset management with Nlyte Software

Canon - Customer Case Study

Canon U.S.A., a global consumer imaging company based in Melville, NY, was managing two data centers (1,500 servers in Virginia and 600 in New York) with disparate spreadsheets maintained by Windows, Unix, applications and networking teams. The Infrastructure Management team needed a central, accurate, and efficient way to track physical and virtual assets as they prepared a new data center and sought to replace error-prone, siloed processes.

They selected Nlyte DCIM to consolidate inventory, add VMware integration and provide a single source of truth. The deployment now spans about 3,000 physical and virtual servers, supports six daily administrators and over 250 application owners who self-serve, and delivers CMDB-like functionality, mobile auditing and API-driven reporting into Business Objects. Benefits include full system visibility, faster reporting, improved SLA and warranty management, streamlined asset lifecycle updates and strong vendor support.

Canon

Sean Hendershot

Manager, Data Center Ops, IT Infrastructure Division