Nationwide saves £8m with server virtualisation

Building society claims resulting "significant" increase in productivity

Nationwide says it has reduced its carbon footprint significantly through virtualisation

Nationwide has completed the virtualisation of 500 servers and expects the project will generate total savings of £8m, as well as operational and energy efficiency.

The building society carried out the project, which entailed the simplification of disaster recovery and enhancement of service continuity, as part of a multi-year datacentre transformation programme.

Unisys has provided consultancy services during the transformation, which is intended to further improve the firm's IT architecture.

Nationwide claims that the project has led to a "significant" increase in the number of production and business-critical applications that are now virtualised.

The financial services firm says it has achieved a 12-1 reduction in the number of physical servers so far, thus saving datacentre space and " significantly" contributing to a reduced environmental impact through a reduction in power and air-conditioning usage.