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News Release from: Insite | Subject: VMware
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2006
70% power saving achieved from first
phase
VMware Virtual Computing Solution Brings Major Savings To London Borough.
Insite, leaders in virtual computing and thin client technology, has announced that it's VMware virtual computing solution for The London Borough of Hillingdon was realising tangible service improvements and major cost savings The new VMware server estate, installed earlier this year, replaced more than 40 of the Borough's oldest servers (20% of its total estate) and is already saving 70% on power consumption (both directly and through cooling)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"For some time we'd been exploring the whole area of virtualisation, and specifically VMware, as a means of tackling our IT issues and long overdue upgrade," said Beth Hague, London Borough of Hillingdon's ICT project manager.
"Having targeted VMware as the likely solution we knew we had to have an expert in the field as such a major undertaking demanded close co-operation and trust between the preferred VMware Authorised Consultancies (VAC) and Hillingdon".
"Of the four VACs who submitted a tender, Insite was the only one to answer all the questions we posed" said Hague "Not only that, they raised other pertinent issues at the time".
Hillingdon's brief demanded an outline plan and time-scales, full costings to include consultancy, staff training and upgradeable licences plus advice on any hardware or network procurement thought necessary.
The whole programme would be subject to a fixed price contract.
Insite is the first VAC partner authorised to use the VMware Capacity Planner and regularly delivers strategic and technical services on behalf of VMware UK.
The most obvious, immediate benefit of this to Hillingdon was the removal of the existing servers rendered redundant overnight by the VMware virtualisation programme.
They were replaced by HP Proliant DL-585 server configured with four AMD Opteron Dual Core processors capable of supporting between 24 and 48 virtual machines depending on the CPU, memory and disk in/out required by each one.
"All our expectations and business objectives for the virtualisation programme have been met in full'" said Hague.
In fact, as the first phase was relatively easy and the measurable results had so impressed we have decided to push ahead with phase two this year," she concluded.
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