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IWL ditches Sun and moves to IBM

27.02.2007
Wealth management technology firm IWL Limited has overhauled its Sun Microsystems server and storage environment and replaced it with IBM hardware, a move that has led to a six fold improvement in application performance and significantly reduced maintenance costs.

Executive general manager of infrastructure and services at IWL Limited, Phil Moore, estimates cost savings in the range of $300,000 per year (US$79,000).

The company replaced existing Sun Microsystems servers running Solaris with IBM System x3950 and System x 3550 servers, as well as IBM BladeCenter chassis and HS20 Blade Servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

It also replaced its existing storage with an 18TB IBM System Storage DS4800 storage area network and an IBM System Storage TS3500 tape library.

A phased rollout over six months was completed in January 2007.

Moore said the entire infrastructure was replaced and the total project cost was $1.7 million with $1.3 million going to IBM.