HP saves $1 billion in three-year IT revamp

IT vendors are historically inefficient users of IT gear, and it is not hard to imagine why. After all, they are able to get a fair chunk of their hardware at cost from within their own organization. Still, in these tough economic times, it appears that HP has managed to pull a coup by removing a staggering $1 billion in cost off its ledger as it concludes a three-year revamp of its IT operations.

According to The Register, the man at the helm of this operation is HP CIO Randy Mott, who was hired away from rival Dell in July 2005. Mott has managed to consolidate everything down from 85 data centers to just six redundant and highly virtualized data centers. In line with a recent focus to go green, the annual power consumption at HP's data centers is down 60 percent from where it was in mid-2005.

Perhaps now would be a good time to take a second look at what can be optimized in your organization's IT operations.

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