The California Department of Water Resources with Hewlett Packard recently announced upgrades to department technology equipment in a move that will help the agency meet state environmental standards and save millions in operating costs, according to a release provided by HP.
The Department of Water Resources replaced old Sun and Dell servers with an HP Converged Infrastructure, reducing energy and cooling costs and improving efficiency and transaction speed, according to the press release.
The upgrade from the old servers to new HP BladeSystem technology moved the department to a 95 percent virtualized environment and reduced the number of physical servers from 600 to 160. Adding HP Insight Control enables the department to more effectively manage the new servers, reducing labor and saving $2 million in maintenance costs, according to the press release.
As part of the new system, the department has also utilized HP Thermal Logic technology and reduced energy and cooling costs in accordance with state environmental standards, the press release stated.
"We needed technology infrastructure that could enable us to meet regulatory demands as well as complete projects more quickly," the department’s Chief Information Officer Tim Garza said in a statement. "Migrating from our aging Sun Solaris systems to HP BladeSystem tripled performance and capacity and provided four times faster transaction speeds for management applications and critical government systems."
In addition to the financial benefits experienced within the California Department of Water Resources, which operates the largest state-built water and power development and conveyance system in the country, the updated technology has allowed for an deployment of a shared services platform utilized by various California Natural Resources agencies.
