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Vitana
S&T Czech Republic helps Vitana with Server Virtualisation
Vitana is one of the largest Czech food manufacturers and owned by the Norwegian multinational corporation Rieber&Son. The simplification of corporate IT infrastructure leads to significant financial savings as well as increased productivity.
The challenge
The server structure of Vitana was complicated and the administration was too much of a burden for the IT staff. Moreover, the lifecycle of many servers was coming to its end and the maintenance costs really high. Therefore the company has opted for virtualisation in order to achieve operational savings as well as increased workforce productivity. Furthermore the modern IT infrastructure would be capable of meeting the future demands of a dynamically developing international company.
The project
S&T Czech Republic was chosen for the implementation of the project. Prior to switching to virtualisation Vitana ran some 38 physical servers. Thanks to virtualisation the number of servers has been reduced to 19 so far. This will continue within the company also in the future: planned is to use 23 virtual servers that will run on three physical servers.
The main advantage for Vitana is the simplification of corporate IT structure. For example, the company has achieved savings by avoiding purchases of new physical servers in many locations. It is also not necessary to buy new components for technological upgrades or expand the existing numbers of servers.
But most important for the company is to have freed up some capacity in human resources, so that the IT specialists can focus now on administration of corporate systems instead of maintaining local infrastructure.
Benefit for the customer
- more capacity in human resources
- cost reduction
- state-of-the-art IT-infrastructure
