IBM and AMD Selected by Move, Inc. to Power Datacenter

IBM and AMD Selected by Move, Inc. to Power Datacenter

At a press conference in New York City today, IBM announced that Move, Inc., the world’s largest moving community, will consolidate its existing infrastructure onto a virtualized IBM BladeCenter system based on the AMD Opteron (TM) processor to help dramatically increase computing performance and datacenter power efficiency.

IT managers at Move, Inc. witnessed skyrocketing energy prices at their Southern California datacenter over the past few years, where leased real estate averages above $30 annually per square foot and electricity costs are high. They also experienced a growing annual spend of over eighty percent of datacenter costs on maintenance fees, electricity consumption, system updates and management personnel. In an effort to streamline operations, Move is relocating its datacenter to Phoenix, Arizona, and consolidating its infrastructure to the IBM BladeCenter platform.

“We needed a more cost-effective location for our datacenter operations, as well as a computing infrastructure that would decrease our datacenter costs, footprint and power consumption, and enable us to scale rapidly as our business continues to grow ,” said Vincent Stephens, vice president of technology operations at Move, Inc. “IBM was the ideal provider for us. Not only do they offer superior technology, but they can also help minimize the impact such a large move could have on our business.”

Move, Inc. operates multiple websites, including Move.com (TM), REALTOR.com® and WelcomeWagon.com (TM) among others. The company has been a pioneer in moving the highly competitive real estate industry from a print to online environment, and continues to grow the business to serve nearly 11 million consumers each month. [1] Move’s new IBM BladeCenter environment will power its Web sites and mini-sites twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, and should provide a consolidated and flexible environment that can scale with the business and maintain top performance. Move also utilizes VMware ESX Server with BladeCenter to virtualize its systems into more than 700 Web, e-mail and application servers.

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