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Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
Create e modernizzate le applicazioni aziendali utilizzando una tecnologia moderna
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
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Conseguite l’interoperabilità dei sistemi in tutta l’azienda
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
Sviluppo sicuro, test della sicurezza e monitoraggio e protezione continui
Augment human intelligence
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Un approccio integrato a Identity & Access Management
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
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Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
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Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
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Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
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Semplificare l'evasione automatica e rafforzare la governance
Automatizzazione dei processi IT end-to-end
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
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Aumentate la velocità, eliminate i colli di bottiglia e migliorate continuamente la consegna dei software
ValueEdge: Value Stream Management
Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
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Modernizzate i principali sistemi aziendali per promuovere la trasformazione aziendale
Create e modernizzate le applicazioni aziendali utilizzando una tecnologia moderna
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
Modernizzazione delle applicazioni, dei processi di consegna, dell'accesso e dell'infrastruttura mainframe IBM
Modernizzate l’accesso alle applicazioni host: più semplice da usare, integrare e gestire, e più sicuro
Conseguite l’interoperabilità dei sistemi in tutta l’azienda
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
Access all products in Application Modernization & Connectivity
La sicurezza al centro di tutto quello che fate: operazioni, applicazioni, identità e dati
Sviluppo sicuro, test della sicurezza e monitoraggio e protezione continui
Augment human intelligence
Crittografia, tokenizzazione e gestione delle chiavi per la deidentificazione e la privacy
Un approccio integrato a Identity & Access Management
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
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Access all products in CyberRes
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Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
Email, IM, and chat-based collaboration
Mobile workforce communication & collaboration
Secure critical file storage and print services
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Dedicarsi alla fornitura di esperienza dell’utente finale e service desk efficienti grazie al machine learning
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Automatizzate e gestite reti tradizionali, virtuali e definite dal software
Scoperta e gestione degli elementi di configurazione (CI) in ambienti IT ibridi.
Semplificare l'evasione automatica e rafforzare la governance
Automatizzazione dei processi IT end-to-end
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
Automatizzate il provisioning, l’installazione di patch e la conformità in tutto il data center
Costruzione, protezione e ridimensionamento dei processi aziendali automatizzati in tutta l'azienda
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Date forma alla vostra strategia e trasformate il vostro IT ibrido.
Ottenete informazioni utili dai big data con analisi in tempo reale e cercate i dati non strutturati.
Fornite al vostro team tutto il necessario per garantire le massime prestazioni alla vostra azienda
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Estimated savings
Time to migrate servers with a team of 8 people
The company saw an opportunity to reduce costs by embarking on a major IT consolidation initiative.
Operating in the highly competitive energy market, Essent is constantly seeking to increase operational efficiency and deliver better value to customers and stakeholders. The company saw an opportunity to reduce costs by embarking on a major IT consolidation initiative.
Prior to the project, Essent’s IT infrastructure was distributed between three data centers. The company decided to move to a central data center that would be simpler to manage, maintain, and protect.
The first challenge was timing: Essent needed to move quickly before the lease on one of its existing data centers expired. Second, the servers used by Essent Trading needed to be online at all times, so it was not possible to shut them down and physically ship them from one location to another. Third, with limited space, power, and cooling available at the new site, it was vital to minimize the number of physical servers required and ensure room for future growth.
Essent is a leader in the Dutch energy sector, supplying electricity, gas, heat, and waste management services to private and business customers in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The company also operates an international energy trading division called Essent Trading. Essent employs 12,000 people and achieved annual revenues of up to €7.4 billion.
Essent identified a number of solutions for simplifying the move from physical servers to virtual hosts (P2V), but the company also needed help with physical-to-physical (P2P) migration. PlateSpin technology was uniquely able to cover both requirements.
“We liked the ability of the solution to provide anywhere-to-anywhere workload migrations – not only physical-to-virtual but also physicalto-physical and virtual-to-physical,” said Marco Spoel, Project Manager of IT Infrastructure at Essent. “By enabling many different workload movement activities, PlateSpin technology supported both our data center consolidation project and our ongoing operational requirements – all within a single software, support, and training investment.”
PQR, a partner specializing in PlateSpin technologies, performed a successful proof of concept, and Essent decided to go ahead with the full implementation.
Essent used PlateSpin Recon to remotely monitor the existing IT infrastructure and perform a full audit of the inventory and utilization of each server. This made it easier to decide which servers were the best candidates for virtualization and which should be moved directly from one physical machine to another.
Using this information, Essent created a detailed migration plan and deployed PlateSpin Migrate to perform the P2P and P2V migrations. Within a month, the company moved 260 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Microsoft Windows Server workloads from heterogeneous HP hardware to standardized IBM System x servers. In addition, Essent migrated 50 physical machines to virtual machines on VMware ESX Server – reducing floor space requirements in the new data center by 8%.
Marco Spoel – PROJECT MANAGER, IT INFRASTRUCTURE
Essent
To further reduce its IT management costs, Essent opted to standardize its Linux environment to a single distribution, selecting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the most cost-effective option.
By implementing PlateSpin to facilitate a rapid and non-disruptive move to the company’s new central data center, Essent was able to continue its business operations without significant interruption – a crucial advantage, especially for the time-sensitive energy trading division. Moving all the company’s IT infrastructure to a single location will also provide considerable benefits in terms of manageability and security.
“The PlateSpin solution saved Essent about €2 million for the data center consolidation project alone,” said Spoel. “The solution also made it possible to complete our data center consolidation without any costly business disruption and with considerably reduced risk. The value to our organization over time could easily be in the order of hundreds of millions of euros.”
Essent views PlateSpin as a strategic asset that will continue to deliver value in the long term. As the business continues to grow, the IT infrastructure will grow with it, and PlateSpin will help Essent assess how to manage its servers most effectively
“The energy industry in which we operate has a high degree of merger and acquisition activity,” said Spoel. “Essent typically buys smaller energy companies once or twice a year. With PlateSpin workload management solutions, we will be able to complete the IT consolidations associated with M&A activity with relative ease.”
