The challenge

The County of Fulton in Georgia, in the US, provides services to about one million residents. An infrastructure consolidation project quickly consumed available data centre floor space with ageing servers. IT managers wanted to find a way to more economically and efficiently consolidate servers in a highly complex environment.

The solution

Fulton County managers adopted a server consolidation strategy. Using virtualisation technology, legacy Wintel servers are being consolidated onto Fujitsu Primergy series server blades. To economically support Oracle databases, managers also elected to deploy Intel Itanium 2-based Primequest servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The enhanced Fujitsu administration tools and remote access capabilities have reduced management labour hours by 25 per cent, and virtualisation has dropped server deployment time by 89 per cent - from six hours to 40 minutes.

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