DCMI, Unisys Used By Telco

LONDON -- DCMI, the data centre consolidation and migrationspecialist, has announced that its Migrata toolset solution is beingimplemented by a large, UK-based telco to help it dramatically reduce theworkload, risk and cost of its data centre migration project.Unisys is managing the multi-million pound project, deploying DCMI's Migratatoolset.

Virtualising and consolidating the servers for large enterprises is a highlycomplex, multi-million pound project. By employing DCMI's Migrata solution,the first software solution developed to allow companies to reduce the workand costs involved in data centre migration, the large telco is able to saveup to 60% of the time and up to 40% of the effort required on this datacentre migration project, equating to millions of pounds saved.

For this project, Migrata has been deployed on a seven month virtualisationand consolidation programme that will involve consolidating over 1700servers, reducing data centre demand by 900 racks.

Roy Illsley, Senior Research Analyst at Butler Group commented, "Data centrevirtualisation, consolidation or migration can produce large cost-savingsfor enterprises in the long-run, yet it is currently an expensive and slowprocess due to the risks involved in shifting mission-criticalapplications." Illsley continued, "There will be more and more large datacentre migrations in the future due to the pressure on data centre space,the need for more energy efficient computers and cooling technologies, andthe need to provide the ability to meet growing corporate computing demands.A solution that helps de-risk and therefore speed up and reduce the cost ofthe migration process is vital."

Ewan MacLeod, CEO of DCMI, said, "DCMI is leading the industry by becomingthe first company to offer a software solution to data centre migration.Working with Unisys to provide the methodology for consolidating over 1700servers marks a major implementation of our Migrata solution."MacLeod continued, "I am astounded that most big companies move and updatetheir data centres with pen and paper. No process and little in the way ofbest practice methodology, for what is an extremely complex and expensiveprocess. I'm glad that on this occasion we have helped a large telco avoidthis route and make huge savings in terms of time, effort and cost for itsdata centre migration project."

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