A'ayan Leasing & Investment

Hardware costs cut 50% with virtualisation

20 → 8Servers

−50%Hardware cost

−60%Licence cost

A'ayan Leasing and Investment Company is one of Kuwait's highest-profile investment businesses. Its data centre had grown too complex and costly for an eight-person team to maintain, so INC established a virtualised environment based on Hyper-V (part of Windows Server 2008 R2), migrating physical servers with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

Objectives

Cut hardware costs and reduce application licence fees
Simplify server management and maintenance
Consolidate all applications to one central location

What we did

Virtualised environment on Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 R2 under an Enterprise Agreement
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 for migration

Results

Physical servers reduced from 20 to 8; hardware cost down 50%
Server configuration in 1 hour instead of 3; restore in 1 hour instead of 8
Application licence costs lowered by 60%; power & cooling 50% less

Hyper-VWindows Server 2008 R2System Center VMM 2008

“We found Hyper-V to be more flexible and cost-effective than other offerings on the market, including VMware. We've cut costs by more than 50 per cent.”
Hamad Al Jallab · Head of Network & Support, A'ayan

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