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Revlon Executive Summary
1. Executive Summary
IT Simplicity Drives
Business Agility at Revlon
The Power of One(ness) On the Road to an
Simplicity as a competitive weapon Agile Data Infrastructure
Revlon manufactures and ships millions of beauty products to more than Agility, Revlon style
100 countries across 6 continents. In 2006, David Giambruno joined the company Now on the road to an agile data infra-
as CIO to help the iconic global brand accelerate innovation by modernizing its structure enabled by the NetApp Data
outdated IT infrastructure. ONTAP ® operating system, Revlon is
able to align IT to the business. Here’s
“Six years ago, Revlon IT was seen as an impediment to the business,” explains what that means for Revlon today.
Giambruno. “Web mail didn’t exist, company laptops didn’t work overseas,
and offices didn’t have WiFi. My first task was simply to get IT out of the way • Delivering impact faster through
of the business.” intelligent data management
Automation and intelligent data man-
He began by instituting a philosophy of brutal simplicity, standardizing Revlon’s agement enable one storage engineer
s
ystems and technology on a global scale. He selected NetApp® as the single to manage 3.6PB of data with 30TB
storage and data management technology. This “oneness” simplified administration, of changes per week—work that used
enabling IT administrators to achieve a greater command of the technology and to require 10 people.
deliver more for the business with no increase in costs. • Achieving nondisruptive operations
through immortal data availability
Over time, what started as an effort to deliver baseline services has yielded Data ONTAP enables six-9s uptime,
profound benefits. Revlon’s simplified vendor philosophy and a NetApp based resulting in fewer than 13 seconds
private cloud infrastructure have reduced the time to deliver IT projects by 70% of downtime each year.
and increased the number of projects by 425%. Incremental costs, hardware • Growing without limits through
footprint, and installation time have been eliminated. Effectively, NetApp has infinite data scaling
enabled the business to achieve these results while avoiding an investment of With 3.6PB of committed data inside
more than $70 million. its systems, Revlon can scale easily—
consuming 660 million SKU attributes
“In our industry, it’s all about the speed of business and delivering capabilities,” per month—with minimal incremental
Giambruno adds. “Simplification equals speed, and that speed provides agility. cost to the business.
We do what the business needs—only faster, cheaper, and better.”
Timeline to IT Agility: 0-100% in Five Years
No incremental spending to achieve results.
Infrastructure Global Cloud Global Cloud
Simplification Deployment in Production
18 months 3 years 5 years
• Reduced costs with
$70+ million in savings
and avoidance “We do what the business
• 425% more IT projects needs—only faster, cheaper,
• Increased business and better.”
capabilities
David Giambruno
Senior Vice President and CIO
Revlon