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Sun Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Solution Boosts Performance, Lowers TCO

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Overview KnowledgeBase Marketing provides information and database marketing solutions that enable companies to acquire and manage profitable customer relationships across traditional and Web-based contact points. The company's challenge was to provide cost-effective storage for data growing at more than 35% per year to improve storage utilization and management. They wanted to reduce storage administration and maintenance costs and move data center from Houston to Dallas. Following a storage assessment performed by Sun Professional Services, KnowledgeBase Marketing consolidated multiple storage platforms and implemented an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)/storage virtualization strategy to improve its storage utilization and reduce TCO. As a follow-on project, Sun helped the customer move its data center from Houston to Dallas, Texas, and refresh its mainframe environment.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	HTML
Date Published	December 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Data Center, ROI - TCO, Server Consolidation

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