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Virtualisation helps the London Borough of Hillingdon cut hardware footprint by 97 percent

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This was published: 12 Sep 2008 - 08:00 am

With a population of almost a quarter of a million, the London Borough of Hillingdon is one of London’s largest local authorities, and has responsibility for running schools, social services, waste collection and roads within the borough.

Hillingdon has created a sustainable IT environment by replacing its disparate array of servers and storage hardware with a greener virtual environment using Compellent and VMware.

Hillingdon’s IT team were faced with 100 percent year-on-year data growth, driven mainly by the growth of employees’ e-mail boxes, the need to retain documents such as benefits assessments records, and the increased use of digital images in planning applications and property and highway inspections.

“We were looking for a new storage solution that could automatically manage data and drive down the cost per TB of stored data over the life of the SAN. It had to provide us with affordable system resilience and also contribute to a greener IT infrastructure,” explained Roger Bearpark, Assistant Head of ICT for the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Virtualising the servers with VMware and the storage with Compellent enabled Hillingdon to reduce 94 production servers to just three, and to reduce the number of server rooms it had from three to two. The subsequent power reduction from 34kW to 1.1kW led directly to Hillingdon saving £20,000 on its annual energy bill.

Hillingdon is committed to driving sustainable, more environmentally friendly practices, and its green IT initiative enabled it to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 percent over 18 months.

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