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Document:	Charon-VAX WorkflowOne Case Study Final
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Customer Solutions
With CHARON-VAX, WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Green
The Challenge
Company Profile

WorkflowOne, Inc. is one of
the nation’s largest providers
of managed print and
promotional marketing services.
Utilizing their innovative Dual
Network Advantage (DNA)
solution,
WorkflowOne
offers design, procurement,
purchasing,
warehousing,
fulfillment, and delivery of
print and marketing services.
WorkflowOne is a subsidiary
of Workflow Management,
Inc. For more information, visit
www.workflowone.com or call
toll-free 866-789-8999.

Partner Profile

Quayle Consulting Inc. is
a Professional Engineering
corporation
located
in
Ohio. Since 1992, Quayle
Consulting has provided system
virtualization, data migration,
system
administration,
software development, and
training services. As a ValueAdded Reseller for Stromasys,
Inc., Quayle Consulting offers
CHARON-TB, CHARON-VAX,
and CHARON-AXP products,
support,
and
installation
services. Quayle also boasts
extensive
experience
in
OpenVMS, UNIX, and Linux
operating systems. For more
information, visit www.stanq.
com, call 1-888-VAX-VMS-8
(US and Canada) or +1 614868-1363 (Worldwide).

When WorkflowOne acquired The Relizon Company in late 2005, they created one of
North America’s largest end-to-end supply chain and logistics powerhouses. They planned
to launch new, innovative IT services and software that would support and manage the
entire business document communications life cycle; they also faced the daunting task of
restructuring a company with over 5,000 employees and 32,000 customers across the
United States.

The Opportunity

To accomplish these goals, WorkflowOne needed to add more servers to their data center.
They wanted to find a solution that would decrease their current maintenance costs, and
increase the speed and performance of their existing hardware. Their data center’s UPS
(Uninterruptible Power Supply) was at 95% capacity, and space was at a premium because
of the size of their existing VAX hardware, pictured below. The VAX equipment was in use
and business critical; replacement of the entire system would be cost and labor intensive, and
more than 50 employees would require retraining before operating the new equipment.

The Discovery

After researching the issue, they
discovered that their old VAX systems
were drawing most of the power.
They had two 3-CPU VAX 7630’s
and a 5-CPU VAX 7850 in a clustered
configuration, as well as 800 GB of
data on ancient disk drives. Data
Center Operations Manager, Mark
Gillespie, sought the counsel of
Stanley Quayle, of Quayle Consulting,
for a solution to their VAX woes. As a
Value-Added Reseller for Stromasys,
Inc., Quayle Consulting offers CrossPlatform Virtualization solutions for
Digital Equipment Corporation’s
(now Hewlett-Packard) VAX, Alpha,
and PDP models. Via telephone and
email, Quayle Consulting supported
the IT team at WorkflowOne during
a proof-of-concept that demonstrated
how
Stromasys’
CHARON-VAX
software could easily virtualize their
entire VAX cluster.

The old VAX hardware at WorkflowOne’s Data Center.

Customer Solutions
The Implementation

WorkflowOne selected a new HP Proliant server and external disk array, pictured below.
The server runs Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Quayle Consulting was on site to provide
support during the production cutover to the CHARON-VAX system. They encountered a
few minor issues, but after several quick adjustments, the system was up and running. The
virtualized VAX was online.

The Results

“We went from
paying more
than $100,000
in maintenance
fees per year to
paying just under
$10,000 per
year. And we did
it with virtually
no effort on our
part.”
- Mark Gillespie,
Data Center
Operations
Manager,
WorkflowOne

WorkflowOne achieved their goals;
they saved power, increased space,
and decreased cooling costs. They also
experienced an increase in hardware
performance and speed. After implementing
the CHARON-VAX solution, hardware
power consumption dropped dramatically
- from 9,360 watts to 600 watts. Heat
dissipation decreased from 31,937 BTU/h
to 2,038 BTU/h. Space was no longer an
issue, as the original 48 square feet required
to house the equipment was reduced to
four 9-inch rack units. WorkflowOne’s
savings in maintenance fees over just one
year covered the cost of the CHARONVAX licenses, the new hardware, and
installation services. WorkflowOne has
since purchased a second CHARON-VAX
license key; in the event of a disaster, they
can recover almost anywhere, without the
need for VAX hardware.

About Stromasys

Stromasys SA is a privately held company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, serving
thousands of users in more than 50 countries. Stromasys develops and markets Cross-Platform
Virtualization solutions that allow owners of PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers to continue to run
their mission-critical applications - unchanged on new, industry standard computer systems.
Stromasys SA was established in 1998 as part of a management buyout of DEC’s (Digital
Equipment Corporation) European Migration and Porting centre following the HP/Compaq
merger. The vast experience gained from years of large-scale migration and porting projects,
System-level VMS engineering projects and development of Binary translators eventually led
to the development of the CHARON-VAX and CHARON-AXP products. For more information,
please visit www.stromasys.com.