BladeCenter S helps New Orleans Saints get to the SuperBowl!

The New Orleans Saints became the National Football Leagues 16th franchise in 1966, and the team has been a major NFL player ever since. After their home city was struck by Hurricane Katrina, the team rebuilt their stadium, then went on to receive an ESPY award in 2007 for Best Moment in Sports when they played for a sold-out crowd after the restoration was completed.

Business need:
To reduce power and cooling costs while conserving data center space

Solution:
Consolidating the teams servers on an IBM BladeCenter® S and virtualizing applications with VMware

Benefits:
Enables lower power and cooling costs in the data center, improves business resiliency, and provides IT portability for a team on the go

Category:

Science & Technology

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• new orleans
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• NFL
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