Sistemi Informativi enhances connectivity and drives down costs with an integrative storage and infrastructure solution from IBM

"Consolidating our storage and hardware infrastructures on IBM technology enables us to work with Campoverde more efficiently and cost-effectively." - Federico Gianni, CEO, Sistemi Informativi

Customer:
Sistemi Informativi

Industry:
Computer Services

Deployment country:
Italy

Solution:
Business Continuity, Optimizing IT

Sistemi Informativi handles hardware and software system projects for a variety of customers, including Campoverde, and provides application software. Located in Milan, Italy, this small business typically employs a staff of five and logs annual sales of €1 million.

Business need:
Sistemi Informativi and one of its main customers, Campoverde, worked together closely but used different IT systems, each with its own internal, proprietary storage subsystem. To simplify storage upgrades and other IT management activities, the two companies needed a new hardware infrastructure, an integrated storage subsystem and an optimized cabling solution.

Solution:
Campoverde and Sistemi Informativi implemented an IBM BladeCenter® H Chassis with three IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers running VMware Virtual Infrastructure software, an IBM System Storage™ DS4700 Express device, an IBM System Storage TS3100 Tape Library Express device and IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager Express software.

Benefits:
Improves connectivity with a simplified, consolidated infrastructure Virtually eliminates hardware maintenance costs Reduces the need to dedicate staff resources to IT management

IBM products and services that were used in this case study.

Hardware:
BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS21, Storage: DS4700 Express, Storage: TS3100 Tape Library

Software:
Tivoli Storage Manager Express

Service:
GTS ITS Site & Facilities: Facilities Cabling Services, GTS Maintenance & Technical Support: Hardware Maintenance, GTS Data Center Services

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