Telefónica is one of the world’s leading telecom companies, with a significant presence in 23 countries across Europe, Africa, and Latin America. The Group has more than 1.5m direct shareholders and is listed on the main Spanish and foreign stock markets. Its activities are centred mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses with broadband as the key tool for the development of both.
Challenge
- Telefónica offers hosting services, including monitoring, back-up and administration services, to large corporate companies and public sector organisations across Spain.
- Traditionally, each customer has its own physical server housed within one of Telefónica’s four data centres sited in either Madrid or Barcelona.
- In line with the current trend towards virtualisation — most of Telefónica’s corporate customers are testing or have already virtualised part of the IT infrastructure — and in an effort to reduce costs even further for its customers.
- Telefónica was keen to launch the first virtual hosting service for corporate companies in Southern Europe.
Solution
- IBM 8-way (upgradable to 16-way) System x3950* servers running on the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7100 series were installed at its two data centres in Madrid.
- The Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7100 series delivers great performance together with the reliability and scalability Intel-based servers are known for throughout the industry.
- Customers can expect to see a TCO reduction of up to 40% over three years compared with standard physical hosting, and 20% compared to in-house virtual server projects. Other benefits include: greater speed of provision from weeks to days, improved flexibility, and higher availability.
- Thanks to the IBM / Intel solution, Telefónica is one of the first companies in Spain to offer a virtual hosting service, enabling it to stay one step ahead of the competition.
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