Learn how massive consolidation and virtualization efforts at Siemens drives up to a 35 percent drop in IT costs. Siemens IT Solutions and Services standardized on Fujitsu Siemens Primergy* servers powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series and 5400 series to achieve a 17:1 consolidation ratio, reduced floor space requirements by 45 percent and cooling needs by 30 percent, and expects capital expenses and operations costs to drop by up to 35 percent. Read Massive Consolidation and Virtualization Effort Drives up to a 35 Percent Drop in IT Costs (496KB, PDF).
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Siemens: Massive Consolidation and Virtualization Effort Drives up to a 35 Percent Drop in IT Costs
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Leading Virtualization 2.0
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization which focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. Download Leading Virtualization 2.0 (2.70KB, PDF) to read how Intel is driving virtualization beyond consolidation into a solution for maximizing business agility.
Arizona Public Service: Powerful Savings at the Power Company
Friday, April 24th, 2009Arizona Public Service (APS) is continually looking for new technologies that can contribute to the bottom line and to energy sustainability. The company’s IT group is no exception and is working to reduce power use and costs both in the data center and at the desktop. To reduce power usage, the IT team decided to acquire new desktops and laptops with energy-saving Intel® processor technology as part of the company’s hardware refresh program. In the data center, the APS IT team decided to save energy by consolidating its servers onto fewer, more powerful machines. Read about their ROI and the other ways APS IT measures success. (more…)
Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (more…)
Intel IT 2008 Performance Report
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Each year, the annual performance report from Intel IT has provided Intel Premier IT Professionals with valuable benchmark data and insights into how Intel is doing in it’s corporate IT mission. One important focus we report on is how Intel IT is adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services.
The progress toward 2008’s mission, Deliver competitive I + T, is also thoroughly documented with examples and data in this Information Technology 2008 Performance Report. Download your copy of this year’s comprehensive report to get insights on Intel IT’s progress in:
- Improving organizational health
- Reducing the cost of our overall operations, including carrying out our data center consolidation strategy, optimizing the WAN, accelerating server refresh cycles to optimize total cost of ownership, and saving us $95 million to date
- Adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services (see page 18)
- Delivering IT Solutions that drive business growth, such as our supply chain management solutions enabling Intel to be more responsive to our customers, better manage our inventory and enjoy cost savings
- Improving the on-line experience of our customers through the design, delivery and management of new infrastructure required for web 2.0
- Passing the halfway point on the complete upgrade of our enterprise resource planning system
- Partnering with Intel business groups to define, develop and enable technology and products that address the needs of enterprise IT organizations
Conseco: Ensuring Success
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Conseco, A Fortune 1000 insurance company, chose Intel® multi-core technology-based servers to consolidate its data center and reduce costs. As other companies were acquired over the years, their data centers were moved to the main Conseco data center. Get the details on how Conseco IT management consolidated the hundreds of different servers accumulating at the Carmel site into a more streamlined hardware and software environment by building upon a virtualization effort. (more…)
Virtualization 2.0 Demo
Monday, August 25th, 2008Virtualization 1.0 delivered energy efficiency and provided more performance in less space with less power. Virtualization 2.0 expands beyond consolidation focusing on business continuity, agility and disaster recovery. See the details in this short demo video clip.
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Solvay Pharmaceuticals: Solvay Finds the Right Formula
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Solvay Pharmceuticals had a server sprawl problem because industry regulations required applications to run on separate servers. To facilitate the deployment of the latest applications and react quickly to meet the volume of new server and application requests, the Solvay IT team decided to virtualize and consolidate. Read Solvay Finds the Right Formula (938KB, PDF) to see how they were able to consolidate 65 physical servers down to 17 servers using VMware* virtualization software on Intel® technology–based servers.
Implementing Virtualization in a Global Business-Computing Environment
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Intel IT planned, engineered, and has begun deploying a virtualized business-computing production environment at several data centers, a rollout that will continue through 2008. The initiative has already confirmed anticipated virtualization benefits such as faster, more automated deployment. Intel is initially consolidating older servers running applications that are not mission-critical; but the company sees opportunities to achieve 16:1 consolidation ratios. This paper discusses the methodology used to achieve these results.