IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

04.04.2012

How many servers did you end up with?

We generally don't publish that number, but a fair amount.

And do I understand you ended up with EMC on the storage side?

Yeah, EMC pairs pretty well with UCS. EMC put in a lot of effort helping us architect the right solution for VDI. With VDI it's not necessarily about how many spindles you have going, it's about how the data is cached in memory. So we did work with EMC, VMware, Cisco, Brocade, all these guys came together because we run a decent size VMware VDI desktop implementation, so they were very helpful in getting it right. And on top of that, we have encryption engines running across everything, so I'd say from a technology stack infrastructure perspective, it really was that kind of perfect blend of speed, virtualization, high up-time and high density.

So the data centers are finished, but how far along are you in the UCS build out?