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Penrith City Council has slashed infrastructure and power costs and increased disaster recovery and availability in the data centre with virtualisation and server consolidation.

The council represents 180,000 western Sydney residents across a 407 kilometre area covering the Nepean River flats and the Blue Mountains. It has 55 sites including the Penrith Civic Centre, libraries, child care centres and recreation centres.

Database administrator Ian Honeysett said the council took a hardware refresh cycle as an opportunity to cut back its growing fleet of 70 servers to about 15.

Check out this great article illustrating how this council has managed to improve it’s availability, and at the same time be more energy efficient saving real operating costs. It’s great to see people benefiting from the technology not just from a technical standpoint but an operational one. Think about how you could achieve similar results in your business. Even taking elements of the infrastructure and using virtualization could reduce your energy costs or your hardware support costs in real terms. Could those 16 DL380 G1 servers not be on one physical box or blade(s)?

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