USI Insurance Services
USI Insurance Services wanted to integrate the IT infrastructures of acquired companies. To do so, it deployed Dell systems running VMware.
Date
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4/1/2011
We’ve reduced our power usage in the data center by around 80 percent by using VMware on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Tim Porreca, Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, USI Insurance Services, United States
Challenge
Committed to growing its business through acquisitions while enabling distributed employees to provide excellent customer service, USI Insurance Services needed a more efficient way to integrate acquired companies’ IT infrastructures. USI wanted to consolidate systems and data from 80 offices into two data centers while minimizing hardware needs, management time and power requirements.Solution
USI virtualized 90 percent of its servers with VMware ® vSphere™ running on Dell ™ PowerEdge ™ servers with Intel® processors, reducing hundreds of physical servers down to 16 hosts and cutting energy usage by 80 percent.Benefits
• Threefold faster integration of acquired companies’ IT infrastructures• 90 percent reduction in physical server count
• 80 percent decrease in data center power usage
• 50 percent or greater reduction in server management time
• Six-figure combined annual cost avoidance on 2 FTE salaries
• 10 minutes to deploy new virtual server
• 1-month lead time eliminated from every IT project
• 12 days of unplanned downtime per year eliminated
• 80 percent reduction in planned downtime
• 50–60 percent CPU utilization on VMware hosts, compared to 2–3 percent on standalone servers
• Improved performance for Citrix environment, increasing employee productivity
• More reliable mobile computing, zero failures to date with Dell Latitude™ ATG laptops
