HP’s converged infrastructure offerings was selected by Knight Frank, a privately owned global property agency and consultancy.
Knight Frank hopes to improve business efficiency, reduce IT costs and improve its carbon footprint with HP’s offerings.
Knight Frank has replaced its servers and storage systems with a virtualised HP storage area network (SAN) and BladeSystem, which increased capacity by more than 200%, driven down total cost of ownership by 90%, and cut CO2 emissions by 47%, the company claimed.
The HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN is split equally across Knight Frank’s two data centres in an ‘active-active’ configuration with dual 10Gb links for constant connectivity, high performance and rapid disaster recovery.
In addition, HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure with HP ProLiant BL495c servers in each data centre hosts Knight Frank’s VMware virtual environment, and the whole infrastructure is scalable to support the growth of Knight Frank’s global business.
Knight Frank technical architect Hardesh Degun said the company now has a modern converged server and storage platform that will support their business activities for the foreseeable future.
"The HP storage offering integrates well with our VMware environment and the feature-rich, all-inclusive pricing model makes the licensing far simpler," Degun said.
