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Financial services firm Veda Advantage has halved the number of x86 servers with a consolidation and virtualisation project.

Veda Advantage infrastructure manager Ashley Sowter said the 12 month project began at the beginning of the year and is surprised why virtualisation wasn’t adopted years ago.

“It does work well and is worth doing,” Sowter said.

So far some 80 servers have been turned off and a data centre in Sydney’s CBD has been closed and the company wants to get to a “two data centre model” for DR.

For virtualisation, Veda went with VMWare, which Sowter had experience with in a previous role.

“Virtualisation is not sold as a cost saving, although that was part of it, it’s sold more like a general technology refresh,” he said.

Another article talking about how this organization has adopted virtualization technologies and in doing so has reduced it’s server count by half. It’s not only the server count that can make a difference to your costs, it’s the hardware support contract costs, the business benefits from virtualization such as hardware abstraction, more on demand computing, being able to deploy servers on demand, or re-allocate resources in line with the business need. We need to evangelize the cost reduction element, but not undersell the technical and operational benefits of a virtual platform, that I can roll back changes to the infrastructure, do on the fly backups (with the right storage and processes in place), as well as abstracting our applications from that DL380 in the data center.

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