In times of financial uncertainty, IT infrastructure decisions and expenditures must be very carefully considered and are under close scrutiny. In 2009, Standard Chartered Bank expanded its usage of the Server Consolidation Analysis Resource (Server CAR), Carbon Calculator and Competitive Profiles suite from Ideas International (ASX:IDE) to assist in making informed and well-planned IT investment decisions.
Standard Chartered Bank has upgraded to IDEAS’ new powerful online Server CAR and Carbon Calculator to assist with capacity planning of its UK, Asia, EMEA, and Middle East datacenters and in particular to assess its environmental footprint.
A winner of several 2008 Banker Corporate Responsibility Commendations, Standard Chartered Bank has been identified as an institution at the forefront of the trend for environmental, social and strategic governance.
Standard Chartered Bank’s Capacity Planning team within its Global Data Centre Services Group uses IDEAS tools to help manage its datacenter efficiency. The Server CAR is instrumental in Standard Chartered Bank being able to model different server consolidation scenarios across different vendors or between different architectures (RISC or X86) before a hardware investment is approved. Server CAR’s performance data adds granularity to the capacity planning function and enables Standard Chartered Bank to make decisions based on an independent metric which covers legacy as well as new products.
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