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ACMI
ACMI, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. ACMI collaboration with software players such as IBM empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
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Barbier Group | Manufacturing | 800 | $370M | France | IBM | IBM Power Systems | Application Hosting and Computing Services | 2018 |
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Barbier Group | Manufacturing | 800 | $370M | France | IBM | IBM i | Operating System (OS) | 1998 |
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Barbier Group | Manufacturing | 800 | $370M | France | IBM | IBM FlashSystem 5000 | Cloud Storage | 2020 |
In 2020, Barbier Group deployed IBM FlashSystem 5000 as part of a Cloud Storage implementation to underpin its SAP HANA database infrastructure on IBM Power. ACMI led the deployment and configuration of two IBM Power H922 servers, each populated with two 10 core IBM POWER9 processors, together with two IBM FlashSystem 5000 arrays populated with solid state drives, creating a converged compute and storage platform for core SAP workloads.
Barbier Group configured the Power H922 servers to run migrated SAP core components and applications on the IBM i operating system, while new SAP HANA databases were provisioned on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. TeamWork supported the migration of existing SAP systems and the configuration of the HANA environment, and the environment also hosts SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA on IBM Power, aligning database and analytics workloads with the IBM FlashSystem 5000 storage layer.
Architecturally, the implementation centralizes Cloud Storage on IBM FlashSystem 5000 arrays to deliver low latency persistent storage for in memory SAP HANA databases running on IBM POWER9 compute, consolidating transactional and analytical SAP workloads onto a single IBM Power platform. The configuration links IBM i application processing and SUSE Linux based HANA instances to the FlashSystem 5000 storage tier, enabling consistent data access patterns and storage tiering appropriate for HANA and BW workloads.
Governance and roadmap notes indicate Barbier Group is halfway toward SAP S4HANA, with plans to deploy SAP S4HANA within the following three years, reflecting a staged rollout of HANA on IBM Power and IBM Storage. Company leadership framed the investment as strategic, reporting that the combined SAP software, IBM i, IBM Power and IBM Storage environment reduced staffing needs relative to previous capacity and provided instantaneous access to reliable information throughout the company, supporting ongoing growth and optimization.
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