Case Study
Peoples Bancorp Virtualizes Business-Critical Systems to Improve Application Availability, Reduce IT Costs and Streamline Backup
Peoples Bancorp Virtualizes Business-Critical Systems to Improve Application Availability, Reduce IT Costs and Streamline Backup
TELECOMMUNICATION CUSTOMER Ca SE STUdy / 1 CUSTOMER Ca SE STUdy Peoples Bancorp Inc. Peoples Bancorp Virtualizes Business-Critical Systems to Improve Application Availability, Reduce IT Costs and Streamline Backup “Virtualizing mission-critical applications has enabled our IT organization to become more responsive to all of our lines of business. Even more important, it has improved the uptime of applications that impact our customers.” — Steve Nulter, Senior Vice President and IT director, Peoples Bancorp Inc. Objectives • Peoples Bancorp was running out of datacenter power and cooling capacity. • The bank was rebuilding one server per week on average to address hardware issues and failures; this was time-consuming and resource-intensive. • Backups were taking too long and becomi