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BT Global Services To Virtualize Its Data Centre Network

February 27, 2008 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

Interesting case-study from BT, delivered by Stefan Overtveldt, BT Global Services Vice President and Head of IT Transformation Practice at VMworld Europe (check our video coverage) today: they’re using virtualization technologies to run its network of data centres around the globe more effectively, improve service customer service delivery and save no less than 50 % on its overall running costs.

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Having already deployed its virtual data centre (VDC) concept to 11 of its 58 data centres around the world, Stefan Overtveldt said the ongoing work and savings would also ultimately help it serve its business customers better. He said VDC first became attractive when BT began to run out of data centre space at the same time as the management of its 3,500 internal and 1,400 customer platforms – made up of applications, operating systems and an average of 10 servers each – became increasingly complex.

BT developed a classic server consolidation strategy in response, which relied on deploying VMware’s virtualization technologies and its competitors in the data centres to reduce its reliance on multiple physical servers. In doing so, it was able to take advantage of the dynamic provisioning capabilities running a virtual infrastructure within a standardized, distributed environment can offer at the same time.

Overtveldt concluded:

“We managed to reduce our overall costs by 50 % and the time it takes to provision new server, storage and network capacity down to hours from days. And our model of extreme standardization means any new internal application requirements outside of the virtual data centres have to have a strong business case first.”

[Source: ITPro]

Filed Under: News, People Tagged With: British Telecom, BT, data centre, data centres, hardware, servers, Stefan Overtveldt, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMWorld, VMWorld 2008, VMWorld Europe, VMWorld Europe 2008

EMC & SAP Heading Into Cloud Computing Together?

February 17, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

According to Reuters, EMC and SAP are about to team up to deliver computer programs over the web. The news company cites a senior executive from German software provider SAP AG, President of SAP Labs North America and member of the SAP Executive Board Doug Merritt, predicting an upcoming partnership whereby the companies will use virtualization technology centralizing computing and storage functions at data centres (‘cloud computing’).

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Merritt chose not to discuss specifics, such as the expected launch date for the new venture and the financial details involved. Moreover, EMC, while openly betting hosting software and services will be a key to growth over the coming years, declined to comment on Merritt’s statements. A blog post by Chuck Norris Hollis, an EMC VP, doesn’t shed more light on the potential alliance but hints at the possibility of a partnership.

If EMC eventually enters the web hosting game through its partnership with SAP, it will be entering a market filled with household name competitors like HP, Symantec, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and IBM.

So far EMC has only announced one key services product, namely MozyEnterprise, an upgraded version of automated backup service Mozy that it acquired last year. EMC reportedly said earlier this month it plans to sell Mozy’s services to large corporations, through a recently upgraded EMC infrastructure dubbed ‘Fortress’.

SAP has also been noisy about launching its own flavor of SaaS program BusinessByDesign to combat Salesforce.com. At an announcement in September, SAP said it would look to partner with companies to provide applications and hosting, which it now seems to have found in EMC.

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Partnerships, People Tagged With: BusinessByDesign, Chuck Hollis, cloud computing, data centre, Doug Merritt, EMC, Fortress, hosting, Mozy, MozyEnterprise, Reuters, SAP, SAP AG, virtualisation, virtualization

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