Dell servers help City of Austin Water Utility prune 90% from power and cooling while boosting testing and development tenfold. Delivering a life-giving resource to 1.5 million residents every day would be enough responsibility for most entities to bear. Add to that burden the environmental expectations of one of the top 10 most progressive, ecologically-minded communities in the world. Such is the challenge for the City of Austin Water Utility.
CUSTOMER PROFILE
Country: United States
Industry: Utilities
Founded: 1871
Number of Customers: 850,505
Number of Employees: 1,000
CHALLENGE
Introduce a high-availability, energy-efficient server and storage infrastructure and disaster recovery plan for a water utility serving 1.5 million residents.
SOLUTION
The department virtualized its applications and storage onto Dell PowerEdge rack servers and a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, allowing the utility to expand its capacity, control server sprawl and save on power and cooling
BENEFITS:
• 40 physical servers virtualized onto 4 Dell PowerEdge R805 rack servers four months ahead of schedule
• 99% reduction in recovery time objective (hours vs. weeks)
• 75% reduction in monthly planned downtime (30 minutes vs. two hours)
• Zero unplanned downtime to date
• Projected $350,000 5-year TCO savings
• 90% reduction in power consumption
• $80,000 in added UPS costs avoided
• Enhanced management capabilities with streamlined environment
• Hundredfold faster time to value on new servers (minutes vs. days)
• Tenfold greater productivity in testing and development
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