MNYL installed a lot of servers to support the growing business, leading to a
highly de-centralized and inefficient IT infrastructure. This shot up
administrative overheads, with lots of underutilized servers sitting there and
adding to the company's energy bills and real-estate costs. The organization
decided to go for a centralized IT infrastructure, for which three milestones
were defined-consolidation of their Lotus Notes and Active Directory Servers and
roll out of NAP (Network Access Protection).
In Notes consolidation, a whopping 14,000 mailboxes were migrated into a single
server. With this, it became easier to administer the mail system, add new
features, and integrate it with other apps like unified communication and
collaboration. It saved bandwidth, which was otherwise wasted in over-the-WAN
mail replication, and lowered dependance on branch office network availability.
In AD consolidation, the company placed read-only domain controllers with
minimal OS core installation in branch offices with 100+ users. This also saved
bandwidth due to reduced replication traffic over the WAN. Lastly, for end point
protection and NAP, Symantec Endpoint Protection was deployed. NAP was used to
block systems that weren't updated from accessing the network. The benefit was
reduction of servers from 500 to just 25 and savings of a whopping 5.9 Crores!
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Implementation Partner Wipro, IBM, ACPL |