Internationally Recognized Music and Entertainment Retailer Streamlines their Infrastructure

The client has been using IBM i as the cornerstone of their business since the 1990s. Consequently, they had a number of important development platforms on multiple IBM i systems.

Working with Covenco, we were able to reduce the footprint to just one system, with guest partitions hosting the individual workloads.

The client was able to remove more than a dozen system units and expansions, replacing them all with a single 4U CEC – and yet, each environment has more resources than the previous.

The space and power saving alone was justification for the project, with the reduction in SWMA by moving to a P05 band being the icing on the cake.