Energizing Smarter Data Centers
Challenge
Snam, one of Europe's leading gas utilities, needed to cut sites, systems, and complexity without interrupting operations. It aimed to:
- Consolidate to a single, energy-efficient data center
- Streamline IT with standard, virtual systems
- Help ensure disaster recovery and overall reliability
The Solution
- Upgraded to a Cisco Nexus switching platform
- Linked old and new data centers
- Used Overlay Transport Virtualization to move data
Outcomes
- Implemented a private cloud
- Increased the speed of development and testing
- Dramatically simplified operations, making IT's role much easier
- Reduced risk factors of the migration
- Helped to ensure business continuity