This 110-year-old "longevity" enterprise is already planning the next century...

How hard is it for a company to live to be 100 years old

Forbes, which was founded in 1917, made a statistic on its 100th anniversary. Of the top 100 companies in the United States that year, only 12 survived after 100 years of ups and downs.
A small and medium-sized private enterprise has a high probability of only living for 3-4 years.

60% of enterprises have a lifespan of less than 5 years.
85% of enterprises may last less than 10 years.

That is to say, most enterprises die in the "primary school" stage, without even having the opportunity to "adult", let alone experience a "mid-life crisis".

kind of enterprise can last for 100 years?

Enterprises that can persist to the stage of "Your uncle will always be your uncle" have unique skills.
Either the product is expected, or the management is good, of course luck also has a certain component.
But there is one thing in common, like the longevity code engraved in their genes, leading them through one economic cycle and social unrest.
That is: " made changes ahead of time ".
American management scientists have studied 18 companies with an average age of 92 for 6 years, and found that they often take the initiative to make changes without being reminded by the outside world. Those seemingly "bold" actions have become the secret of their eternal youth.

110-year-old "aluminum" walker skillfully uses digital to stay in the

founded in 1910 by Ammann Aluminium, the world's leading manufacturer of specialty alumina, which has been 110 years old.
Despite their longevity, their current factory is completely modern and young.
For example, they introduced the application of the Internet of Things very early. Through the intelligent transformation of the whole process, the monitoring of the whole process of alumina production, automatic collection of process parameters, and automatic early warning have been realized.
With a keen sense of "digitization", they stood on the new stage of intelligent manufacturing together with the back waves.
Not only that, they also took aim at the new technology of " hyper-converged ".

Hyperconvergence, the new future of cloud + edge

Deploying IoT applications at industrial sites has both advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages: It can greatly reduce the complexity of interconnected systems, and it is easier to collect and analyze data in real time. Even if the network connection is unstable, the data can be collected and analyzed locally. Only when the network is connected, will key data be transmitted back to the center The network is aggregated.
Disadvantages: Factory computer room, workshop weak current room and other locations do not have a good server environment, nor do they have efficient Internet connection, sound IT maintenance, etc.
Hyper-convergence is the best solution to have both the fish and the bear's paw. It not only provides a powerful infrastructure for edge computing required by the Internet of Things, but also possesses the new potential brought by the cloud.

Anchoring the next century with hybrid

Ammann Aluminium introduced the Dell EMC AX-740xd all-flash Azure Stack HCI integrated system , based on the Azure cloud subscription service, to rapidly build a hyper-converged architecture system, which improves the robustness of the infrastructure for carrying industrial IoT applications. The advanced digital capabilities and products of the Azure cloud extend to the local manufacturing line, giving the "cloud and" the "place".

01 Both local and cloud, management and operation and maintenance are reduced

Jointly developed by Microsoft and Dell Technologies, it provides a fully integrated and intelligent local management platform. In the future, Ammann Aluminum can use Azure Arc to centrally monitor and manage cloud and local resources, including Windows, Linux, SQL Server, in the cloud. or container. , a comprehensive solution, greatly the of IT operation, maintenance and management, greatly improves deployment efficiency, and greatly reduces the time required for infrastructure updates.

02 Data center expansion to the cloud, both security and flexibility

Ammann's Azure Stack HCI hybrid cloud service is not publicly hosted, but ensures a security operation by regularly connecting to the for monitoring, support, billing and hybrid services, ensuring a security operation for data Environment . Azure Stack HCI modernizes existing virtualized environments and leverages Azure to keep applications online. In addition, through Azure Stack HCI, pay-as-you-go can be achieved, and with business growth in the future, it has better flexibility in scalability.

03 Super cost-effective hardware performance, better efficiency and cost

Dell EMC AX-740xd is equipped with Intel® Xeon® Silver 4208 processor and supports new technologies such as Intel Speed Shift, vPro, directional I/O virtualization, mode-based execution control, etc., effectively ensuring the performance of hyper-converged systems. Performance efficiency and operational stability. At the same time, the device includes OEM Windows Server data center licenses for guest operating system licenses, reducing capital investment in software licensing and meeting compliance.

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04 Full life cycle support, reliable and innovative peers

The Dell EMC AX family of products, deeply integrated with Azure Stack HCI, is fully certified, provides enterprise-grade installation deployment and platinum support services, solves the challenges of hardware lifecycle management and reduces the complexity of procurement, delivery, scaling, updates and support , on the basis of realizing large-scale monitoring and management across data centers and clouds, supporting future-oriented application innovation and hybrid cloud architecture, and providing 99.9999% high reliability.

This is just the beginning, Aluminum also plans to fully cover the Stack HCI architecture to its more than 10 institutions around the world to achieve seamless migration and upgrade of application systems in the Hyper-V environment.
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If it is said that being able to live to 100 years is the highest level of enterprise management, then advancing changes and breakthroughs are the strongest "longevity password" for enterprises. Microsoft's hybrid cloud will help more traditional manufacturing industries anchor the digital future, release the unlimited potential of cloud + edge, and help the foundation to last forever.