Summer visitors flock to the beautiful Danish island of Bornholm, a Scandinavian Riviera on the Baltic, doubling its year-round population of 43,000.
Historically, Bornholm had six administrative regions of government, each with its own processes and IT infrastructure. The result? Too many employees, operational disconnect and decisions going in the wrong directions. More than 20 different data backup schemes and many separate networks made it chaotic and difficult to store, manage and access information. In 2003, the citizens spoke out in a public initiative to demand greater efficiency, lower costs and better service. In response Bornholm consolidated the six regions into one, Bornholms Regionskommune (BRK), precipitating many changes.
The IT group built a large data center in one of its facilities and consolidated 150 mixed-vendor servers with mostly direct-attached storage in six regions down to 80 HP ProLiant servers in one region connected to an HP SAN. This effort saved server administration time, improved efficiency and provided savings of approximately 30 percent. BRK also reduced its multi-networks to two—one for regional city administration and one for the island educational system, which together serve approximately 3,000 municipal employees. |
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