Read the value story of Avago Technologies, which has completed a data center transformation that has added value to the company’s business and also had a significant impact on the environment.

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Best Data Center Transformation — Winner
Avago Technologies
(FROM LEFT) Ajay Tyagi and Rao Bhavaraju, HCL; Thanh Ngu, Shreyas Shah,
and Bob Rudy, Avago; Brian Gillooly, InformationWeek
Data Center Transformation
Makes Avago More Lean
and Green
Companies in a variety of industries are discovering outages during the process, and there have been no
the merits of transforming their data centers to major issues since the new data center operations
support increased business agility and at the same went live. Other key components of the transforma-
time reduce costs and improve energy efficiency. tion include an implementation of a storage-area
Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog network and a move to complete tapeless backup.
interface components for communications, industrial The company has adopted a tiered storage strategy
and consumer applications, is a prime example. to support growing data storage needs.
The company, which provides a range of ana- One of the highlights of the project was the con-
log, mixed signal and optoelectronics components struction of an entirely new data center that serves
and subsystems to about 40,000 customers, has as a dedicated disaster recovery environment for
completed a data center transformation that has the company. The server consolidation that was part
added value to the company’s business and also of the project resulted in a more than 50% server
had a significant impact on the environment, with count reduction, and the number of racks is used
a 50% decrease in power consumption. As part of was decreased from 84 to 30. The 50% decrease
the transformation, Avago Technologies virtualized a in power consumption made possible by the new
large number of its servers and consolidated physical technology implementations has made Avago
servers in its two existing data centers, upgraded its Technologies’ IT operations much greener than it
Oracle database, built a new data center facility to had been.
serve as a dedicated disaster recovery facility and
refreshed its entire computing environment with new Decreased Costs
blade servers. Overall data center operation costs for Avago’s three
data centers have decreased by 40%, while the num-
Minimal Downtime ber of cores has been increased from 500 to 700 and
The data center transformation, designed and storage capacity has increased from 140 terabytes to
implemented with help from HCL Technologies 210 terabytes. The average memory utilization went
Infrastructure Services Division (HCL ISD), was from 60%-80% to 15%-20%.
completed within a seven-month period. The effort Among the benefits for the business are lower
resulted in less than 48 hours of downtime for Avago, costs, higher throughput times (key processes are
spanning a weekend. The migration to the new running 30% to 40% faster), greater agility for expand-
servers was accomplished within 40 hours. ing business needs, and an architecture that will
Avago Technologies encountered no business support business growth through the next five years.
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Winner Best Data Center Transformation— Finalist
Old Mutual Wealth Management
(Continued from winner Avago Technologies)
Avago Technologies says HCL ISD played
a key role in developing the proof of concept
Old Mutual’s Data Center
for the new platform as well as integrating tech- Strategy is Paying Off
nologies from several vendors including F5,
Investment specialist firm
EMC DataDomain and Nexus. The firm “built
Skandia, part of the Old
the development and production environments
Mutual Group, needed
with zero impact to the business” other than
to upgrade an aging
the planned downtime,” says Shreyas Shah,
IT infrastructure, so in
senior director of IT at Avago Technologies.
2009 it began planning a
HCL ISD also built Avago’s disaster recovery site
transformation program
and managed the implementation of tapeless
(FROM LEFT) Brian Gillooly, InformationWeek; to update two key data
backup. Working with Wipro (the applications Ramesh Guruswamy and Emma Moore, HCL;
centers. The transforma-
service provider for Avago), HCL ISD helped Jeremy Gray and David Reynolds, Old Mutual
tion addressed several
define Avago’s application needs during the
problems, including limited space in the data centers; a legacy
design and implementation of the data center
environment that constrained the reliability and growth of one of
transformation. It also performed an impact
the facilities; multiple server and storage technologies, operating
analysis, risk assessment and risk mitigation for
system versions and standards that were complex and costly to
the transformation.
deliver and support; and limited lifecycle management, leading
to out-of-date technologies being maintained. The project was
conducted in three phases in partnership with HCL Technologies
Infrastructure Services Division (HCL ISD). In the first, completed
“ Avago Technologies is honored to in the first half of 2010, Old Mutual implemented structured
be recognized for its data center cabling and resilient UPS.
transformation; our strategy enabled The second phase, completed in March 2011, involved
dramatically improved capabilities core infrastructure components such as storage consolida-
tion, server virtualization, network consolidation, backup and
while substantially reducing costs.”
enhanced disaster recovery. The final phase, which is ongoing,
Bob Rudy, Avago Chief Information Officer
involves the implementation of standards and tools such as
monitoring, software and patch management, and database
consolidation. Skandia says the transformation has resulted in
80% of non-production environments being virtualized; 40% of
“ As a result of our partnership production environments virtualized; and high-density usage of
with HCL, we were able to server infrastructure, reducing power, cooling and use of space
achieve game-changing results in the data center.
quickly and effectively.” In addition, 20% of servers have been upgraded, and
Skandia now has the ability to provide seamless recovery of
Shreyas Shah, Avago Senior Director
Enterprise Infrastructure critical virtual hosts in its disaster recovery site. Another benefit
is reduced data center complexity, with the move from three
storage technologies to one.
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