The successor of Aéropostale, the French aviation company Europe Airpost is as specialized in the transport of mail and in freight as the transport of passengers over medium distances, for all operators. Its method, the “Quick Change” procedure, allows cargo aircraft to be converted into comfortable passenger aircraft.
Business need:
In order to meet the demands of a growing airline, Europe Airpost realized it needed a major overhaul of its IT infrastructure. The datacenter was not organized, with a lot of cables and physical servers which presented too many points of potential failure.
Solution:
Europe Airpost selects and IBM BladeCenter solution and consolidated 70 physical servers to 8 IBM BladeCenter HS22 virtualized servers, reducing the cost of ownership of its computer resources by 60% in 2 months.
Benefits:
• Reduced the cost of ownership of its computer resources by 60% in 2 months
• Power consumption decreased from 18 KVa to 8 KVa, while computing power and storage capacity were increased
• Maintenance costs decreased by 37%
• One-half of the second computer room was freed up for office space
"We were able to reduce our administrative tasks by one half. We have reduced the license, we have reduced maintenance and… we have reduced by two-thirds in two months our TCO." - Fabrice de Biasio, Director of Information Systems, Europe Airpost
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