Denso Martin virtualisation cuts carbon footprint and slashes management

Robin Talbot, IS manager at Denso Marston, adds that it will also improve manageability at the company’s facility in Shipley, UK and lead to additional benefits in terms of reduced air conditioning. Denso Marston, which manufactures engine and vehicle systems’ cooling components for construction and agricultural vehicles, power generation equipment and trucks, has selected Fujitsu Siemens Computers and its VAR VdotCOM to consolidate 30 servers, introduce a new storage solution and provide ongoing IT support services. Like many others, the company has been operating with multiple servers running everything from CAD software to email and Oracle and SQL databases – and Talbot comments that IT management was more about fire-fighting than improving efficiency. VdotCOM recommended consolidating the infrastructure into three virtualised Primergy servers, running on VMware, along with Fibrecat storage from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “The decision to work with Fujitsu Siemens Computers and VdotCOM was based on a business decision of improving our IT management and making cost savings,” says Talbot. “But as an organisation focused on improving innovation at plant level [we set an industry-leading benchmark of investing 8% of our sales into R&D] we were delighted to find that server virtualisation would mean enhancing our green credentials at the same time.”