An innovative IT project that saved millions of pounds and
reduced the carbon footprint of BT’s Windows datacentre
estate by 85 per cent, has been selected as the overall
winner of BT’s first ever Supplier Innovation Awards.
As well as improving sustainability and significantly reducing expenditure, the IT initiative, delivered by Computacenter, has enabled BT to increase uptime and speed up the deployment of new business and services.
The Windows Greenside Virtualisation project enabled BT to achieve a server consolidation ratio of 15 to 1. With around 1,400 fewer servers to power and cool, the company has been able to cut its energy bill.
BT has saved a further £750,000 per year on datacentre floor space costs and has also dramatically reduced its IT managed services bill by almost £800,000 per annum.
The project – which paid for itself in just eight months – means BT now has more datacentre capacity for both internal IT programmes and new customer engagements.
