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“We have reduced the perceived capital
expenditure or opportunity costs for
going from the old architecture to the
new HP architecture by US$3 million
to US$5 million over the refresh period
of three years. From an operating cost
perspective, by the time this programme
is done we will be saving US$1 million a
year in operating expenses.”
expenditure or opportunity costs for
going from the old architecture to the
new HP architecture by US$3 million
to US$5 million over the refresh period
of three years. From an operating cost
perspective, by the time this programme
is done we will be saving US$1 million a
year in operating expenses.”
Sundi Balu, chief information officer,
Reach Global Services Ltd
Reach Global Services Ltd
REACH was running a mixed IT infrastructure of
HP, Dell and Sun equipment with seven different
operating systems and decided that it was time for
a refresh. Analysis revealed that maintenance of the
infrastructure was costing nearly US$1 million a year
so a reduction in operating expenditure was vital.
HP, Dell and Sun equipment with seven different
operating systems and decided that it was time for
a refresh. Analysis revealed that maintenance of the
infrastructure was costing nearly US$1 million a year
so a reduction in operating expenditure was vital.
Cost cutting aim
“We also needed to reduce capital expenditure
because we wanted to implement a whole utility
computing/cloud computing paradigm,” says
Sundi Balu, chief information officer for REACH. “In
addition we wanted to extend the ‘maintainability’
of the infrastructure from the standard three or four
years to five or six years. This required technology
which would enable us to do phased refreshes rather
than a big bang every three years.”
Wanting to switch to a close partnership with a
single vendor, REACH considered HP and another
major hardware and services vendor. It chose HP
because of its extensive Communications, Media
and Entertainment (CME) practice backed by strong
operational support systems. HP equipment would
support REACH’s internal cloud computing model
where the IT department would offer services to its
internal customers. An HP solution would also meet
REACH’s criteria on reduced capital expenditure,
operating expenditure, longevity and capability.
because we wanted to implement a whole utility
computing/cloud computing paradigm,” says
Sundi Balu, chief information officer for REACH. “In
addition we wanted to extend the ‘maintainability’
of the infrastructure from the standard three or four
years to five or six years. This required technology
which would enable us to do phased refreshes rather
than a big bang every three years.”
Wanting to switch to a close partnership with a
single vendor, REACH considered HP and another
major hardware and services vendor. It chose HP
because of its extensive Communications, Media
and Entertainment (CME) practice backed by strong
operational support systems. HP equipment would
support REACH’s internal cloud computing model
where the IT department would offer services to its
internal customers. An HP solution would also meet
REACH’s criteria on reduced capital expenditure,
operating expenditure, longevity and capability.
Blade solution
An initial benefit of this decision was that REACH’s
landscape of over 150 servers in Hong Kong and
Sydney was reduced to 68, mostly HP blade servers
with some rack mounted boxes. Thirty two servers
(HP ProLiant BL460c and BL860c blade servers and
HP Integrity rx6600 servers) were installed at the
main Paddington data centre in Sydney and ten at
the secondary Oxford Falls site in Sydney. Twenty
three similar server models were installed at the
principal Telecom House data centre in Hong Kong
and three (HP ProLiant DL380 and DL580 server
models) at the secondary Hermes House site in
Hong Kong.
As part of the refresh, REACH decided to put more
emphasis on generic, open source Linux operating
systems rather than UNIX. It has reduced the number
of operating systems from seven (TRU64, HP-UX,
Solaris, Windows, RedHat Linux, FreeBSD and
CentOS) to just three (HP-UX, RedHat Linux and
Windows). HP-UX is used at the high end, Windows
at the departmental level and Linux for more
corporate and critical systems.
HP also assisted REACH with a refresh of its Storage
Area Networks (SAN), including the installation
of three new HP StorageWorks 6400 Enterprise
Virtual Arrays (EVA6400). Two disk arrays at the
Paddington data centre provide storage capacity of
nearly 28TB and one at Oxford Falls has capacity of
8.6TB.
landscape of over 150 servers in Hong Kong and
Sydney was reduced to 68, mostly HP blade servers
with some rack mounted boxes. Thirty two servers
(HP ProLiant BL460c and BL860c blade servers and
HP Integrity rx6600 servers) were installed at the
main Paddington data centre in Sydney and ten at
the secondary Oxford Falls site in Sydney. Twenty
three similar server models were installed at the
principal Telecom House data centre in Hong Kong
and three (HP ProLiant DL380 and DL580 server
models) at the secondary Hermes House site in
Hong Kong.
As part of the refresh, REACH decided to put more
emphasis on generic, open source Linux operating
systems rather than UNIX. It has reduced the number
of operating systems from seven (TRU64, HP-UX,
Solaris, Windows, RedHat Linux, FreeBSD and
CentOS) to just three (HP-UX, RedHat Linux and
Windows). HP-UX is used at the high end, Windows
at the departmental level and Linux for more
corporate and critical systems.
HP also assisted REACH with a refresh of its Storage
Area Networks (SAN), including the installation
of three new HP StorageWorks 6400 Enterprise
Virtual Arrays (EVA6400). Two disk arrays at the
Paddington data centre provide storage capacity of
nearly 28TB and one at Oxford Falls has capacity of
8.6TB.
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