Describing the company as Australia's largest currency management organization, Chief Information Officer Jeremy Bates, said the server consolidation initiative is part of an expansive business re-engineering project.

Bates is betting the business on Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Integrity servers. He did not disclose details of which vendors were ditched as part of the move to standardize with HP.

By consolidating IT systems into a central location, he said the company can safely manage infrastructure and meet all its legislative requirements through well-managed growth.

Under the HP-architected model, Linfox Armaguard requires only two HP Integrity rx8620 servers to manage its new mission-critical platform.

"From a strategic perspective, we probably wouldn't have secured the contracts that we have now if we didn't have the capacity and scalability of these Integrity servers," Bates said.