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http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39168100,00.htm

Consumer insurance company Paymentshield has completed a technology upgrade as part of a four-into-one office move, reducing its carbon footprint by 76 per cent and saving £6,500 a year on electricity costs.

A significant part of the data centre migration project was outsourced to system integrator Migration Solutions, which completed the move over one weekend, ensuring that the impact on Paymentshield’s sales was kept to a minimum.

Paymentshield trades with 30,000 intermediaries to deliver products such as home insurance and mortgage protection.

The move to the new site has allowed the company to migrate 50 servers to a VMware virtualisation system, with a further 30 servers under review. Alongside the move was a switch to VoIP communications provided by Avaya, costing £250,000.

Check out this article, it’s talking about how this insurance company used a number of technologies which reduced it’s carbon footprint and significantly (from the business standpoint) saved it £6500 a year on electricity costs, not to mention being good from a corporate social responsibility angle.

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