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7/30/2019 Accenture Helps Telstra significantly reduce IT Infrastructure Costs with High Performance Virtualization Platform

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Accenture Helps Telstra

significantly reduce IT Infrastructure

Costs with High Performance

Virtualization Platform


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Accenture completed the

implementation for Telstra in three

phases. First, an assessment of the

server estate was completed in order

to establish a clear cost baseline and

identify virtualization candidates. The

business case, which included detailed

cost estimates, implementation timeline

and Capex and Opex benefits, was

produced for endorsement by Telstras

IT leadership team. Performance criteria

and key performance indicators were

established to ensure business benefits

would be measured and enable targets

to be achieved.

Second, a Server Virtualization Shared

Service was designed, built and

deployed in four strategic data center

locations. A senior steering committee

of Telstra and Accenture representatives

was set up to guide the overall solution

and ensure that timelines were met. The

new capability was designed including

the technical platform and more

importantly organization, processesand system management tools.

Third, the Accenture team is conducting

the physical to virtual server migration

and the operation of the Shared

Service. To date, the platform is hosting

more than 1100 virtual servers which

have been generated from either

migrating existing virtual servers,

migrating legacy physical servers

into virtual servers or through new

provisioning. The migrations from

physical to virtual server are ongoing

until target completion in 2010. As

an additional benefit, a large number

of servers have been identified and

confirmed for decommissioning.

Finally, Accenture is operating the

Virtualization Shared Service.

High performance delivered

Telstras new virtualization shared

service platform has simplified its

IT management by centralizing

the application infrastructure. This

allows staff to deploy, manage

and operate server environments

more quickly, efficiently and cost-

effectively by not having to deal with

a physical legacy environment.

The new capability ensures high

availability as it better utilizes shared

infrastructure through the built-in HA

and load balancing capability of the

underlying virtualization software.

Telstra IT can now more easily overcome

outages due to unexpected physical

hardware failure.

The new capability has also helped

Telstra to make significant cost savings.

This includes a reduction in server

related capital investment by 70% and

a reduction in operational cost for thevirtual platform of 30 to 40% compared

to the operational cost of the equivalent

physical servers.

Through its work with Accenture on

this initiative and leveraging virtual

infrastructure, Telstra is able to

deliver faster and more cost effective

IT solutions and is on the path to

achieving high performance.


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About Accenture

Accenture is a global managementconsulting, technology services andoutsourcing company, with more than176,000 people serving clients inmore than 120 countries. Combiningunparalleled experience, comprehensivecapabilities across all industries andbusiness functions, and extensive researchon the worlds most successful companies,Accenture collaborates with clients tohelp them become high-performancebusinesses and governments. Thecompany generated net revenues ofUS$21.58 billion for the fiscal year endedAug. 31, 2009. Its home page iswww.accenture.com.

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