EMC, a provider of information infrastructure offerings, said that HNTB has deployed EMC and VMware offerings to streamline, protect and manage its information infrastructure and reduce IT expenditures and management costs.
EMC said that HNTB has employed VMware vSphere 4 virtualisation software to consolidate its IT infrastructure to 12 servers and 250 virtual machines on its path to private cloud.
In addition, HNTB has selected EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra midrange storage systems to store information from its physical and virtual infrastructures, and its applications, including Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.
HNTB has also implemented EMC SourceOne offering to archive older Exchange e-mails from CLARiiON to long-term EMC Centera storage to maximise efficiency of its information infrastructure.
Richard Hall, vice president and director of corporate information services at HNTB, said: "Many of our employees require large and growing storage capacities to create detailed engineering drawings and project plans.
"With EMC, we’ve been able to scale very responsibly and cost efficiently. With a consolidated, virtualised environment, we’re saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenditures for servers, tapes and storage. In addition, as our storage infrastructure has grown from nearly a terabyte to 400 terabytes over 15 years, we haven’t needed to increase our storage administration staff."
