KL is a collaborative group consisting of 98 municipalities. It promotes the interests of these democratically elected and governed local authorities on a national level, and also manages their IT services, providing public sector workers with online access to essential documents and reports
Product evaluated
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series
Challenge
To improve the utilisation and energy efficiency of hardware in the KL data centre, thereby ensuring the IT infrastructure is future-proofed to process increasing volumes of data, as well as reducing costs
Results
The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series is expected to reduce CPU usage from 100% to 25%. Greater energy efficiency should lower power consumption by 25% and a standardised infrastructure is expected to reduce the number of administrative man hours by 33%
Impact
The Intel® platform could result in annual costs savings of at least USD 180,000 (DKK 880,000), improved CPU usage will enable KL to provide even more online services and reduced energy consumption will enable it to set an example in “green IT” for businesses across Denmark
Next steps
KL has committed to deploying the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series throughout its data centre, and is currently investigating the benefits of Intel® multiprocessor (MP) server technology for its next IT refresh.
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