The challenge

Given the scale and complexity of the company's rail services Deutsche Bahn relies heavily on its IT systems to manage its commercial and operational processes, such as ticketing, timetabling, logistics planning, maintenance scheduling, purchasing and business management. Indeed, many of the systems developed by its IT services organisation DB Systems are operational 24 hours a day.

Antonius Schrder, IT platform operation department manager, DB Systems, says, "With dozens of business-critical applications and more than 80,000 internal users to support one of our greatest challenges in providing the highest level of service to our passengers is maintaining the availability and performance of our IT system."

The solution

Fujitsu has undertaken the planning and implementation of a number of datacentre relocations for Deutsche Bahn, which were completed without disruption to the continuing operations of its systems. For example, when Fujitsu moved the companys Munich data centre to Berlin more than 300 server systems, running many mission critical applications and storing 150Tb of data, were physically moved across the country and re-commissioned within just 48 hours. In addition, Fujitsu has improved the utilisation of existing server space by consolidating system storage and improving capacity planning, and so avoided the expense of buying additional hardware.

Download the full case study to find out how Deutsche Bahn has cut new hardware costs by 20 per cent and improved system performance and flexibility all with minimal business impact.