Case study

How did an iconic printer brand lower operational costs by 20% and save $2M in workload alignment?

Shift IT focus from managing infrastructure to helping the business leverage technology

Tight timeframe to leave existing data centers and sell occupied buildings

Keep operational cost flat while improving operational performance

Financial requirement for a monthly OpEx payment model

Need for both a private cloud and elastic burst ability

Infrastructure designed and installed (2,400 host images, 600 TB, firewalls, network, WAN)
Hosted in third-party data center
Moved 175 hosts from physical to virtual
Decommissioned 40 hosts
Replatformed 300 servers from Solaris to Linux
cDOT upgrade
Managed and monitored by Managed Services
Hosts virtualized, re-platformed, and data migrated

Used Datalink and a NetApp solution to save $1M+ in immediate contract avoidances
Identified $2M in workload alignment savings
$7M future state IT budget reductions
50 public cloud workload candidates
376 workload re-sizing candidates identified
Lowered operational costs by 20%
3 data center sites recommended for decommission
Modernized infrastructure that will provide greater business focus and agility
Created services oriented architecture to increase agility within the environment
Reduced management costs and effort
Increased operational efficiences for the entire R&D team
Decreased overall operational cost for the IT infrastructure and service delivery