Case Study

Case Study: The State Of Indiana Tunes Its I&O Department For Virtualization Success

Galen Schreck
Rachel A. Dines
 and  one contributors
Mar 20, 2009

Summary

Prior to 2005, the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT) was distributed over 100 agencies and four data centers. By mid-2006, on Governor Mitch Daniels' orders, IOT was completely centralized with only one data center and had dropped from 100 system administrators down to 48, saving them millions of dollars a year. How did they do it? Massive consolidation and virtualization efforts, and more importantly, an infrastructure and operations organization that is designed to achieve the maximum efficiencies virtualization can offer.

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