Melbourne Water enlists Cisco Services to manage safe, expedited migration to more sustainable, efficient data center.

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Challenge

Required a more streamlined, consolidated data center to support growing business requirements and a new EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) system.

• Relocate data center IT assets from existing location to next-generation facility on shortened timetable
• Manage risk and avoid disruptions of mission-critical services and applications
• Increase performance, virtualization capacity, and energy efficiency of data center

Solution

Cisco Services and partner Kinetic IT assessed the need and designed a plan for migration, followed by implementation.

• Cisco engaged to lead data center migration initiative and build next-generation unified network
• Cisco Unified Fabric improves energy efficiency and SAN support
• Cisco Nexus and Catalyst Switches increase network throughput and reduce complexity

Results

Better response time and greater performance overall, in addition to eliminating unnecessary infrastructure.

• Managed smooth data center migration of 260 servers and 60 applications without time extension or service disruption
• Contributed to Melbourne Water's data center sustainability goal of reducing energy consumption by up to 40 percent with associated annual savings of up to AU$250,000
• Improved response time and performance in customer-facing applications