2. About Hillingdon Second-largest London borough (250,000 residents) Covers 42-square miles and includes 239 parks, Heathrow Airport and Brunel University Supports schools, social services, waste collection and roads Completing five-year programme to move from a basic utility provider to more innovative services
3. The Hillingdon Vision “To be a Modern, well managed council Delivering Excellent Services”
4. Why We Do What We Do & Who We Do It For It is not really that complicated: Just do more For less Oh, and if you can, quicker, more reliably etc etc
5. Strategic Overview Reasons driving virtualization Rapid data growth (100% each year) Cost concerns associated with government organizations Desire to increase efficiency Greener ICT strategy Operating systems Windows Server Linux Novell Netware Key applications Benefits assessment software Novell GroupWise Onyx CRM
6. The Road Well Travelled – Data Growth Plans & maps Documents Photographic evidence Statutory duties – retention of data: 7 days, a month, 12 months, 5 years, 30 years Adoption Records, 100 years
8. The Investment Time & Expertise The Right Partners The Right Feeling The Right Return
9. Why Compellent? Automated Tiered Storage provides significant savings without manual classification Thin provisioning increases utilization Simplified storage management saves staff time to work on more innovative progress Scalability for future growth Affordable replication solution allows increased recoverability Better position to support our users and citizens
12. Compellent’s Energy-Saving SAN Traditional Compellent 20 TB system, RAID 10, 50% utilised Might require 274 enterprise-class disk drives (10,000 RPM 146 GB drives) Power consumed: 6,020 watts per year Tiered Storage 14 enterprise-class disks (10,000 RPM 146 GB drives), RAID 10 7 SATA disks(7,200 RPM 750 GB), RAID 5 Power consumed: 429 watts Savings of 5500 watts
13. Additional Energy-Saving Improvements Replaced 2700 desktop CRT displays with TFT Added power-down scripts and power-sensing blocks Replaced 311 LaserJet and DeskJet printers Added flexible and mobile work programmes Dedicate collection/delivery days for equipment Consider supplier location during selection Redeploy equipment to schools, foster care, etc. Decommission hardware and use as support stock Provide remote support tools
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15. Additional Savings Reduced Novell GroupWise mailbox recovery from up to 36 hours to less than 30 minutes Easy-to-manage SAN removed the need to hire an IT position (approximately $75,000) Additional $28,500 services savings Reduced accommodation from 3 rooms to 2 Calculated carbon footprint reduction 33 tonnes Contributes to the overall saving of 175 tonnes comparing new to old working practice
17. It All Adds Up Clever storage doesn't have to be technically difficult But it can deliver much more than you might imagine There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli.
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