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Sharing others success is always really cool. Here are my Top 10 success stories captured off of the intel customer references page located at www.intel.com/references. These leading IT shops from around the world have successfully taken advantage of new technology to transform their business .. saving money, boosting performance, driving productivity, and increased competitiveness into their business.
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Chris
1. Station Casinos virtualizes IT: To help control IT costs and ensure a robust customer experience, the IT group virtualized its infrastructure by running VMware* virtualization software on Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 and 5400 series. So far, the company has eliminated almost 100 physical servers, avoided $190,000 in hardware acquisition costs, and accelerated the deployment of new services from weeks to hours. Virtualization enables Station Casinos to continue to deliver fun and relaxation while keeping the company successful even in tough economic times. http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/StationCasinos.pdf
2. Thomson Reuters: With virtualization software running on rack servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series, the Thomson Reuters IT team is achieving a consolidation ratio of 18:1, reducing power requirements and freeing up space to absorb future growth. “We expect to increase that ratio to 25:1 when we move to the six-core Intel Xeon processor 7400 series in the near future,” says Crowhurst. The company’s power requirements are growing by nearly 20 percent every year as business expands. By optimizing the power and cooling strategy in its new data center and concentrating more blades in less space, the IT team was able to increase power density from 100 watts per square foot to 150 watts per square foot. As a result, there is less need for new data center construction, greatly reducing future environmental impacts. http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/Thomson_Reuters.pdf
3. TRW: Achieved server consolidation ratio of 20:1, Increased CPU utilization from 40% to 85%, Reduced server deployment times from two weeks to one to two days, Cut total annual power and cooling costs by 70% to 80%, Saved 50% in annual datacenter cooling costs in Malaysia alone, Enabled one IT staff member to manage up to 50 servers, Saved 80% on the potential cost of additional UPS systems across the datacenters.http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/TRW_snapshot.pdf
4. Business & Decision Group: Power consumption was reduced by approximately 30 per cent compared to the previous generation of processors. The pure performance gains and lower energy consumption helps us deliver new solutions for our customers and will lead to a return-on-investment in less than one year. Could gain virtualization rates of 20:1 and with a processor load slightly below 55 percent. http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/Business_and_Decision_All_Systems_Go.pdf
5. BMW: The Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series performed 2.75-3X faster than the implemented RISC-based servers. Based on the Intel® Core™ mircoarchitecture, it is manufactured using new materials such as hafnium-based high-k gate dielectrics and metal gates, which significantly reduces electrical leakage. http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/BMW_SAP_casestudy_FV.pdf
6. Carnegie: Reduces yearly energy costs by approximately SEK I million (USD 167,000) thanks to an estimated 1.1 million KWh annual saving arising from the server consolidation. Carnegie then replaced 100 of its legacy servers with 16 HP ProLiant 380 G5* servers powered by the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series and in the process created approximately 140 virtual servers. Thanks to the reduction in physical servers it also shelved its plans for extra cooling equipment while also making a SEK 10 million (USD 1.7 million) saving by avoiding the need to physically rebuild its data centre. http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/Carnegie_final_version.pdf
7. Kelly Blue Book: Refreshing aging servers with new Dell* servers based on multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors enables Kelley Blue Book to accelerate performance of key applications by up to 50 percent, increasing business agility. Loading and processing business warehouse data was taking 16 to 20 hours each time - now it’s taking half that amount of time. Server consolidation ratios of up to 15 to 1 and reduced energy costs with the new hardware - saving KBB approximately $10,000 each month in power and cooling costs.http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/Kelley_Blue_Book_CaseStudy.pdf
8. PLAY: Processing all of PLAY’s historical roaming mobile transactions for 2008 to make the data available for the Optiprizer windows user application, takes just 44 minutes running on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, compared to 102 minutes on the Intel Xeon processor 5400 series. This represents a performance increase of 230 percent. Similarly, complex business intelligence tasks can now be performed twice as quickly. http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/PLAY.pdf
9. Yahoo: Upgraded their Mission Critical Oracle database with Intel Xeon 7300 based servers. Yahoo is able to support a 1.4-petabyte database with 16 servers without any additional training or operating costs, while cutting the time to run the most demanding queries by 93% (20 hours to 73 minutes). http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/Intel_ESS_Yahoo_7300_Case_Study_HR.pdf
10. Turtle Entertainment: Europe’s largest online gaming community supports its 875,000 members with Intel Xeon processor 7400 based servers. Consolidation with larger servers reduces network, power/cooling and space costs and enabled a 35% reduction in TCO while improving their customers gaming experience (time it took to load a web page went from 177 milliseconds to 72 milliseconds). http://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/Turtle_Entertainment_V3.pdf
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