A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet one of our customers in the Boston Area - Henry Chace, the CIO of Burns & Levinson, a 260 employee law firm, which has recently replaced its outdated IT infrastructure with state of the art HP ProLiant Servers.

While passing by his data center it was obvious that floor space was at a premium, as it is for many midsize businesses in city locations that don’t have the luxury of large out-of-town facilities.

Of course, Henry was delighted with the new levels of efficiency, security and continuity he was getting to help run the business but a major benefit of the upgrade was the giving back of expensive floor space that could be used for billable personnel.

Henry was able to reduce server space to just a couple of racks and by using the latest and greatest when it come to power and cooling in our ProLiant Servers, he also no longer needs the big cooling devices he used to run. So his energy bills are lower too.

This wasn’t Henry’s first infrastructure refresh with HP – three years ago the firm’s legacy were experiencing two to three crashes a week, vexing not only to the harried IT staff but infuriating to attorneys whose work would be halted mid-stride and to legal staff racing against court deadlines.

Along with downed servers, billable time would stop, time that could not be reclaimed, time during which Burns & Levinson was essentially not accessible to its clients and unable to provide the very services that are its business.

The new HP ProLiant Server infrastructure proved to be a smart investment, delivering an RoI of 894% with payback of 11 months.
If you want to learn more about what Henry has experienced please have a look at the link below that has some more details: 
http://www.hp.com/sbso/serverstorage/article/burns-levinson.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN 

I wonder how many midsized companies like yourself consider space advantages when considering technology investments. Do you? Let us know.

Urs