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The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. The State of California Department of Water Resources (DWR) replaced 600 Sun and Dell servers with 160 HP Bladesystems which the supplier said saved $2m in maintenance fees.
The company moved to move to a 95 percent virtualized environment, reducing its physical servers from 600 to 160 and said it improved cooling efficiency by 50 percent and power distribution and efficiency by 40 percent.
"We needed a technology infrastructure that could enable us to meet regulatory demands as well as complete projects more quickly," said Tim Garza, chief information officer, State of California Department of Water Resources. "Migrating from our aging Sun Solaris systems to HP BladeSystem tripled performance and capacity and provided four times faster transaction speeds for management applications and critical government systems."
The project used HP Insight Control and Thermal Logic technology on its HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures to meet state environmental initiatives by reclaiming trapped power and cooling capacity and safely capping server power consumption.
The project allowed California DWR to manage the power consumption of its physical and virtual servers. It also said it reduced labor costs by 35 percent and maintenance costs by 45 percent.
The California DWR operates the largest state-built water and power development and conveyance system in the US, supplying water to 25 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland.
Changes to the state's water management program expanded the department's scope of work from a single line of business to other focus areas, including environmental management and flood safety.