Jamaica Public Service Company, Ltd. cuts costs, simplifies management with IBM Power Systems
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Jamaica Public Service Company, Ltd. cuts costs, simplifies
management with IBM Power Systems
Overview Jamaica Public Service Company, Ltd. (JPS) is the sole distributor
of electricity in Jamaica, operating 27 generating plants using gas,
Jamaica Public Service
Company, Ltd. diesel, steam, and hydroelectric technologies to generate power for
Kingston, Jamaica nearly 600,000 customers.
www.myjpsco.com
Industry Challenge
• Energy and Utilities Jamaica Public Service needed to expand their infrastructure to accommodate
Products an increased Oracle application workload, but faced budget cuts within their IT
• IBM Power 520 Express department. JPS wanted a solution that would enable consolidation of their IT
• IBM AIX infrastructure while cutting operational costs and improving efficiency.
• IBM PowerVM
• IBM PowerHA for AIX Solution
Services Jamaica Public Service moved their mission-critical Oracle Enterprise
• IBM Global Technology Services environment from legacy HP servers to three IBM Power® 520 Express
• IBM Global Financing
servers with IBM POWER6™ processors, taking advantage of IBM PowerVM™
virtualization technologies. Running IBM AIX®, two of the systems are used
“ heIBMPowerplatform
T for production and one for disaster recovery. The two production servers are
providesthereliabilityand clustered using IBM PowerHA™ for AIX.
availabilityfeaturestosuitour JPS leveraged server product services for Power Systems™ from IBM Global
businessneeds,whilehelping Technology Services to help implement the solution, and engaged IBM Global
usstaywithinourbudget.” Financing to make the acquisition of the new servers possible. With the IBM
— J a m a i c a P u b l i c S e r v i c e C o m p a n y, L t d .
solution, JPS was able to reduce labor costs as well as costs related to space
and energy consumption. And because of the virtualized environment, the
company was able to reduce their current license needs by more than half and
avoid incurring costs for nine new Oracle Enterprise Edition licenses.
Benefits
• Reduced Oracle Enterprise Edition licensing costs
• Reduced maintenance, facility, and energy costs
• Improved disaster recovery protection