Stewart & Mackertich was running a legacy infrastructure with
tower servers which were more than four years old. These systems
were slow, unreliable and required a high amount of management and
maintenance. It was running one application per server and each
server had direct-attached storage.
The infrastructure was plagued by unplanned downtimes. Provisioning
for a new application and extra storage required laborious manual
tape backup and the infrastructure lacked a proper disaster
recovery mechanism. The company was spending almost 85 percent of
its IT budget to keep the infrastructure up and running and had
very little left for new implementations or innovations.
To overcome these issues, Stewart & Mackertich moved its
servers to a virtualized infrastructure. The company was the first
one in India to implement securities trading applications live on a
virtualized platform.
With virtualization, the company has reduced the number of physical
servers from 26 to five, cut power and cooling costs by 65 percent,
improved CPU utilization from 25 percent to 65 percent and saved up
to ` 60 lakh in terms of one-time savings on floor space.
Post deployment, server provisioning time for new
applications/environment has gone down from four weeks to just 15
minutes and downtime has reduced by 90 percent. Manpower
requirement too has reduced from 3:1.
Note: Stewart & Mackertich is an EDGE winner. The
complete list of EDGE winners is published in the October 2010
Print issue of InformationWeek India
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