Calor Gas consolidates servers

Calor Gas, the UK’s leading supplier of liquefied petroleum gas products with four million customers, has overhauled its IT storage infrastructure.

In partnership with B2net, Calor Gas has integrated its disparate enterprise data storage and back-up requirements.

Calor Gas will consolidate 50 of its 90 servers down to just four providing a more robust infrastructure.

'The new server approach will enable us to have as close to a 24/7 operation as we can,' said Andrew Browne, network manager, Calor Gas. 'The aim was to significantly reduce the maintenance we needed to run on the old system in terms of patching, upgrades and downtime.'

Previously, Calor Gas had a large number of disparate servers where applications were isolated or didn’t sit comfortably alongside one another. The inefficient infrastructure meant that a lot of time and resource was spent maintaining and supporting out of date servers. It also meant available storage could not match growing demand.

'We had to make the project as cost neutral as possible by removing physical barriers and reutilising our newer servers for other projects instead of purchasing new ones,' said Browne.

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