An investment management firm needed a robust, energy-efficient and powerful IT architecture to support upgraded mission-critical research and analysis applications based on Sun Solaris 10 operating system.

The results were a significant performance increase over the previous server platform resulted in 80 percent energy savings while enabling consolidation of the Sun environment to fewer servers.

A more consolidated server environment increases resource availability and simplifies management, driving business performance. Improved control of CPU core use enables more effective management of energy usage, driving power and cost efficiency.