Japanese Bank Expects Server Consolidation to Save It Millions.

The article reports that Tokyo, Japan-based Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. has consolidated 149 of its physical servers into 14 blade servers. Information technology (IT) officials expect this effort to make company savings of millions of dollars. The company's IT operation began evaluating options for updating its servers in January 2005. There is a need to reduce the complexity of the server environment, increase utilization, and lower operational costs. In order to determine whether to virtualize the servers, IT personnel calculated the cost of replacing the existing systems.