Virtualization Helps Stoneridge Reduce Data Center Costs
Dell’s Servers, Storage Consolidate Global
Operations, Lower Energy Consumption
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) June 23, 2008 --
Stoneridge is saving money and data center space worldwide by
simplifying its IT operations with Dell PowerEdge
servers supported by Dell EqualLogic
Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs).
Stoneridge, Inc., headquartered in Warren, Ohio, is an independent
designer and manufacturer of highly engineered electrical and electronic
components, modules and systems principally for the automotive, medium-
and heavy-duty truck, agricultural and off-highway vehicle markets.
Stoneridge has IT presence in most of its locations in 15 countries.
Dell helped the company standardize onto a centralized IT network,
providing greater economy and global efficiency.
“Having Dell as our global IT supplier for
servers and end-user devices enabled us to dramatically shrink our IT
footprint and spend,” said Bill Johnson, Chief
Information Officer, Stoneridge. “Virtualization
architecture on Dell PowerEdge servers has resulted in cost savings
across a range of areas, including energy and datacenter real estate.”
Using Dell PowerEdge
R900 and Dell PowerEdge
2900 servers, with VMware Infrastructure 3 virtualization software,
Stoneridge retired 89 percent of its active servers in the company’s
main data center. Stoneridge is using Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs to
support the virtualized server infrastructure, providing high
transactional performance and scalability while simplifying management
and administration.
“With the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, we can
leverage our existing networks, switches, and experience and get great
performance without a costly infrastructure upgrade,”
Johnson said.
Stoneridge was able to consolidate IT server infrastructure by more than
50 percent, eliminating more than $1 million in server hardware and
reduced recurring annual server hardware replacement costs by
approximately $330,000 in 2007. Virtualization architecture on Dell
PowerEdge servers also has helped reduce power use at Stoneridge’s
main data center by 58 percent.
“Stoneridge is a perfect example of how Dell
simplifies IT for its customers,” said Bill
Rodrigues, vice president of Dell’s Corporate
Business Group. “By removing cost and
complexity for our customers, we are enabling them to realize
significant cost savings in terms of energy, real estate, IT
infrastructure and staffing costs.”
Links to:
The Future of Computing
Stoneridge
Case Study
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