Knight Frank reduces infrastructure cost by 90 per cent
The estate agent deploys HP storage area network and HP blade system
Global estate agent Knight Frank has implemented an HP converged infrastructure, which it claims has driven down the cost of ownership of the infrastructure by 90 per cent.
Its old servers and storage systems have been replaced by a virtualised HP storage area network, and an HP blade system.
The move has also increased capacity by around 200 per cent and cut CO2 emissions by 47 per cent, according to the agents.
The company, which is headquartered in London, operates globally from 209 offices in 43 countries across six continents.
In an attempt to provide redundancy and efficient disaster recovery, the HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN is split equally across Knight Frank's two data centres in an "active-active" configuration with dual 10GB links.
An HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure with HP ProLiant BL495c servers in each data center hosts Knight Frank's VMware virtual environment, and the whole infrastructure is scalable with future growth in mind.
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