London-based warehousing company, gm2 Logistics, has
reduced its datacentre area and energy consumption by more than 30%
by switching tovirtualisation technologyand
astorage area network
(San).
The company said it had deployed server virtualisation from
VMware and an energy-efficient San from Compellent that combines
automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, and storage
virtualisation.
The move was driven by demand for increased storage capacity,
high availability, simplified data management, and business
continuity assurance.
"Thanks to virtualisation we have been able to eliminate more
than a third of the hardware from our environment," said John Boyd,
IT manager at gm2 Logistics.
"That means we are consuming significantly less power, which is
great for the environment as well as being a financial benefit," he
said.