With nearly 12 million customers paying their bills each month, having 24x7 availability of its billing systems is paramount for Hubei Unicom. To ensure these systems are highly available, Hubei Unicom turned to a number of storage solutions from Symantec. Results include 60% improvement in I/O performance for Oracle database, 24-fold faster failover for application and Web servers, CN¥8 million (US$1,286,000) in hardware costs avoided with active-active mirroring of cluster volumes to DR site, CN¥1.5 million (US$241,000) saved by using open-source software for virtual environment, CN¥400,000 (US$64,300) projected savings when call center applications are clustered, and finally 100% payback on Symantec solutions. To learn more about Hubei Unicom’s implementation of Symantec storage products, check out this customer success story http://bit.ly/WtZVX6