It is essential to focus on people in order to get value from consolidation. At Eisai, our divisions functioned as separate companies, with the mind-set to match. When we brought together all of the U.S. organizations, I quickly discovered gaps.
Virtualisation is the name of the game for the Bank of New Zealand, which expects to phase out around 500 servers after purchasing two high-end Z series computers from IBM.
An overhaul of the IT infrastructure supporting its 31 New Zealand hotels has delivered significant savings for Millennium Hotels and Resorts, which operates the Copthorne and Kingsgate hotel brands.
Users at the recent Storage Networking World conference in Florida say they are looking to consolidate disparate storage systems into storage-area networks (SANs) as a way to cut costs.
Wireless network operator Woosh’s purchase of ISP Quicksilver is a sign of the times and is only the first of many such changes, according to Woosh chief executive, Bob Smith.
The Bush administration believes it can cut the US government’s annual IT infrastructure costs — which are estimated to be US$22.4 billion (NZ$35.5 billion) for the 2007 fiscal year — by 16-27% through increased consolidation, standardisation and interoperability. Karen Evans, who heads the White House’s IT office at the Office of Management and Budget, told Computerworld US that “potential government-wide cost savings are between $3.7 billion and $6 billion per year if the federal government operates as one enterprise similar to private industry corporations”.
Last week, Accenture signed a seven-year applications outsourcing deal with Unilever, to run all of Unilever’s application development, implementation and support.
Nationwide Mutual, a US insurance company, has consolidated 14 distributed SANs (storage area networks) into four, housed in two production datacentres, in just 90 days. To add to its achievement, the company used only four full-time storage experts for the actual migration. The result: by simplifying its SAN architecture, Nationwide doubled the number of terabytes its administrator can manage.
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