In a November 20 InfoWorld cover story, “Simplify the workplace with IT datacenter consolidation”, Leon Erlanger highlighted the consolidation strategy of Fujitsu customer First American, a leading financial information provider.
According to the article, high availability was the key consideration for First American. “As the company became a major information provider, we knew we had to provide super reliability in a very modern datacenter,” says First American CTO Evan Jafa. First American has so far consolidated 25 locations to two datacenters, which it built from scratch to provide high-density power and cooling. Jafa is quoted as saying that getting help from vendors is a key ingredient to consolidation success. Jafa says, “We got a lot of help and used a lot of best practices from our primary partners Fujitsu, HP, and IBM.”
To read the entire InfoWorld article on this important subject, go to the article here.