Virtualization speeds acquisition integration, and drives mobile workforce.
Ingersoll Rand/Trane, a $13 billion multi-national manufacturer employing approximately 57,000, chose to implement a virtual computing solution to speed integration of acquisitions and mobilize its diverse workforce. As part of the post-merger integration with Trane, Ingersoll Rand faced a week of downtime to ship server hardware for a consolidation project to a new hosted datacenter. Instead, the company chose to virtualize its servers and cut over to the new datacenter remotely, saving thousands in shipping costs and avoiding any interruption to its business. Ingersoll Rand also virtualized desktops for its call center workers, which enabled the company to expand hiring into additional geographic areas.
The company was able to use the budget allocated for the replacement of its leased physical servers to purchase 16 host servers, and increase its datacenter capacity through virtualization to the equivalent of 350 servers. The server virtualization project realized over $100,000 in savings the first year and is expected to deliver additional savings of $500,000 per year. The time required to bring servers online has been reduced from two weeks to one day, and application delivery time was reduced from two weeks to only twenty minutes.
Ingersoll Rand expanded its virtual computing platform to deliver on-demand applications to more than 9,000 users in branch offices, call centers, point-of-sale service centers, traveling salespeople and executives, service techs and office workers, enabling a truly mobile workforce.
Benefits
- Remotely virtualized hundreds of servers for increased datacenter capacity
- Centralized datacenter and desktop management, enabling mobile workforce
- $1 million in hardware savings with server virtualization
