Fire and Rescue Team Cuts Electricity Costs by 77 Per Cent With Virtualised Servers

The IT team at Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service wanted to ensure continued compliance with the United Kingdom (U.K.) government's Civil Contingencies Act and roll out a new disaster recovery data centre. By deploying the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system and Hyper-V virtualisation technology, the team has not only achieved this goal, but it also expects to reduce hardware support costs by 80 per cent, cut server electricity costs by 77 per cent, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 36 tonnes. In addition, the team no longer needs to acquire specialist virtualisation software because all of the core functionality that it needs is supplied by Hyper-V.