A leading non-banking financial institution wanted to deploy a myriad of new applications in different technologies. The traditional approach of dedicated hardware for each application made it extremely difficult in terms of financing, application rollout time and provided stiff feasibility challenges every time. We conducted an extensive capacity planning exercise using industry-standard tools and topped it with our own real-life experience to design a comprehensive solution for them. Using HP Blade Servers, VMWare Virtualization solution and NetApp storage we over achieved the target set by the IT and finance teams by

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• Bringing down the number of servers to less than half
• Implementing high  availability for all applications
• Reducing energy  consumption by 60%
• Reducing data  center bills to a mere 35% of the earlier costs incurred  
• Instant resource  provisioning for newer applications        
• Introducing  unmatched flexibility for adapting to special application requirements        
• And more

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