The Who
- Local authority based in the South East
- 49 elected members
- Represents 24 electoral wards
The Challenge
- Lots of unused real estate in environment costing the authority to maintain
- Experienced reduction in staff numbers
- Looking to downsize office and council buildings
- Experiencing financial challenges due to recent acquisition
- Necessity to reduce real estate used for IT and datacentre
- Operating legacy IBM infrastructure
- Other issues encountered - including lack of failover resiliency
The Solution
- 20 days of consultancy
- Formulation of plan and project managing delivery of solution
- Proposed virtualising datacentre infrastructure using Citrix
- Deployed on new host hardware, including Dell EMC SAN and servers
The Benefits
- 80% reduction in physical hardware estate
- Less real estate needed to host datacentre infrastructure
- Associated costs savings on power and cooling required
- By simplifying environment, massively reduced IT administration overheads
- Modern infrastructure - more resilient and flexible
- All delivered on-time and on-budget
Why Servium?
- Liked practical "can do" attitude
- Came up with a good plan which met the customer's challenge
- Ready to be implemented with a short lead time
- Believed Servium would deliver on the benefits anticipated
- Compelling commericals
- Leveraged Services Ecosystem to ensure right expertise available
