Sky Italia slashes software processing times and cuts power consumption in half with Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series
Sky Italia is a digital pay-TV company owned by News Corporation. It has always displayed a strong commitment to innovation. To continue using the most advanced technology, it recently decided to migrate an infrastructure supporting a number of business-critical applications from the Oracle Sun SPARC* environment, implemented during its start-up in 2003, to one based on the HP Superdome2* server, powered by the Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series. This migration has brought a number of benefits including a 50 percent decrease in processing times and power consumption.
Challenges
• Redesign infrastructure. Upgrade the existing business-critical infrastructure to increase performance and improve the levels of service provided
• Power efficiency. Optimize power consumption in keeping with sustainable development, an area of importance for the company
• Safeguard investments. Guarantee scalability and technological support over the medium and long term
Solutions
• Effective migration. The production environment was migrated to HP Superdome2 servers, while those of development and testing were put on HP blade servers, all powered by the Intel Itanium processor 9300 series, totaling over 300 processors
Impact
• Increased performance. Processing times were reduced by 50 percent on average, with users saving an average of 20 percent on standard tasks
• Lower energy use. Replacing systems which had come to the end of their lifecycles made it possible to reduce power consumption by 50 percent
• Decreased total cost of ownership. Increased efficiency and productivity, along with simpler management and monitoring, significantly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). Sky Italia expects a return on investment in six months.
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Sky Italia slashes software processing times and cuts power consumption in half with Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series
Sky Italia is a digital pay-TV company owned by News Corporation. It has always displayed a strong commitment to innovation. To continue using the most advanced technology, it recently decided to migrate an infrastructure supporting a number of business-critical applications from the Oracle Sun SPARC* environment, implemented during its start-up in 2003, to one based on the HP Superdome2* server, powered by the Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series. This migration has brought a number of benefits including a 50 percent decrease in processing times and power consumption.
Challenges
• Redesign infrastructure. Upgrade the existing business-critical infrastructure to increase performance and improve the levels of service provided
• Power efficiency. Optimize power consumption in keeping with sustainable development, an area of importance for the company
• Safeguard investments. Guarantee scalability and technological support over the medium and long term
Solutions
• Effective migration. The production environment was migrated to HP Superdome2 servers, while those of development and testing were put on HP blade servers, all powered by the Intel Itanium processor 9300 series, totaling over 300 processors
Impact
• Increased performance. Processing times were reduced by 50 percent on average, with users saving an average of 20 percent on standard tasks
• Lower energy use. Replacing systems which had come to the end of their lifecycles made it possible to reduce power consumption by 50 percent
• Decreased total cost of ownership. Increased efficiency and productivity, along with simpler management and monitoring, significantly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). Sky Italia expects a return on investment in six months.
