Publisher Trinity Mirror group has migrated to blade servers
following the upgrade of its publishing infrastructure for three
newspapers.
The company has just replaced the publishing system for the
Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People, which has
now migrated to HP
blade servers from Sun V880s.
"We were putting too big a demand on the Sun servers, which were
between six and seven years old, and they could not take it
anymore," said Peter Raettig, group IT operations manager.
Blade servers take up less space and enable businesses to have
more servers and to support more users and applications.
The upgrade of our existing infrastructure for the publishing
infrastructure was to increase performance, give better business
continuity and increase resilience," added Raettig. The company
requires high availability because it operates almost 24 hours a
day.
The publisher is using two HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures each
containing six
HP ProLiant BL480c Quad Core blade servers running Linux to
improve performance. It is providing storage and business
continuity with HP StorageWorks 6100 Enterprise Virtual Array.