| Service and solution: | Unified Communications, Data Centre |
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| Partners: | Cisco |
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Needs / Business Challenges
A large Brazilian oil sector company had the need to centralise
the assets of its major data centres in a single location, aiming
to improve resources management, increase competitiveness, reduce
hosting contracts with service providers and reduce overall costs
of maintenance, cabling and power.
To that end, bidding were carried out considering LAN (Local Area
Network) equipment, including high-performance switches suitable
for an environment with many servers, and SAN (Storage Area
Network). In another process, bid on the purchase of blade servers
with a condition of supply that was evaluating the investment costs
(CAPEX) and environment operation (OPEX), considering the blades
power consumption and heat dissipation.
Solution / Technology /
Methodology
The client evaluated several players to define the network
solution (LAN and SAN) and blade servers. Leading market names
participated in the bidding, and PromonLogicalis won for offering a
solution with best cost-effective within the client's
requirements.
The project involved the supply of Cisco equipment for LAN (Nexus
7K/5K/2K and access switches for management purposes); Cisco
UCS servers, installation materials (racks, optical cords),
assisted installation, configuration and operation for migration,
and training.
Results / Benefits
After installing the new environment and
migrating data centres, the company expects to reduce overall
maintenance and energy costs to support and maintain the active
cooling system. The company may also reduce the need for cabling,
which will be another way to reduce costs.
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