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European paper and signage distributor PaperlinX has decided to outsource its entire IT infrastructure to the French company Bull. As part of the agreement, Bull will consolidate the client’s currently scattered IT resources in its data center in Barnsley, UK.
PaperlinX currently houses all of its servers in 22 data centers located near or in its branch offices in 16 countries across Europe, according to a Bull statement. Using virtualization technology, Bull will shrink what is presently more than 700 physical servers down to about 80. The client’s infrastructure will be backed up at a secondary site in Netherlands.
“In an extensive pan-European organisation such as PaperlinX with customers in various industries, it is important that all business units work well together,” PaperlinX CFO Jeroen de Swart said in a statement.
“This step towards outsourcing allows us to build on a standardised infrastructure which forms a platform for the interaction between our people, businesses, customers and suppliers and supports our growth strategy.”
In addition to consolidating PaperlinX servers, Bull will centralize management of desktop computers in all of the client’s 22 branch offices. Using Citrix XenDesktop, all desktops will be managed from Netherlands.
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Keywords: Bull, Citrix, PaperlinX, data center consolidation, server virtualization, desktop virtualization, IT outsourcing, data center outsourcing | |
