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The state of Oregon is embarking on a data center consolidation and virtualization project that officials say will save $10 million to $12 million per year.
The project, which costs $43 million, was started in 2005 with the construction of a new data center in Salem, the state capital, in which 11 separate state agency data centers serving 45,000 employees will be consolidated. The project is scheduled to conclude in June 2009 with a new Gigabit Ethernet backbone and virtual circuits replacing a frame relay network to support new applications and a converged infrastructure.
It will mark the first time Oregon has standardized its data center and network infrastructure architectures as well.
"Going to a shared service infrastructure for IT was going to significantly reduce costs, as well as standardize the environment which is going to improve quality," says Mark Reyer, administrator of the Oregon State Data Center (SDC). "It will improve the cycle time and agility of the application programming efforts to be able to develop on standard platforms."
Reyer spent 15 years with IBM directing the company's data center outsourcing and consolidation business for Fortune 500 clients such as Allied-Signal and United Technologies. With the Oregon SDC, Reyer is also looking to drive energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction -- state managers expect to reduce power consumption by 30%, with an additional 25% reduction upon completion of server consolidation.
The data centers to be converted under the program belong to 11 state agencies, including Administrative Services, Consumer
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RE: Oregon launches massive data center consolidation, virtualization projectBy Peter Brockmann on January 8, 2008, 11:59 am>"We learned a lot there in terms of the >variations in the IOS command set that were >not obvious at the beginning," Grapoli says. >"What we're doing is looking...
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