Client

Perth and Kinross Council is a unitary local authority in central Scotland providing local government services to a population of 140,000 who live in both rural and urban communities.

The Council wanted to save money by halting server proliferation and reducing electricity consumption in its data centres while continuing to support e-government services delivery to citizens.

Solution

Charteris proposed that Perth and Kinross join the Microsoft Virtualisation Rapid Deployment Program using Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualisation technology.

Benefits

• £100,000 saved in first year
• Sustainability targets met
• E-government service delivery improved
• Efficient proactive IT management
• Disaster risk reduced 

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