Case Study: Fortune 500 Financial Services Giant achieves major CPU savings and faster capacity planning with Fortra Vityl Capacity Management

Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money

A Fortune 500 financial services company faced rapid growth, multiple acquisitions, and a chaotic IT environment that drove up hardware costs and caused project delays. Working with Fortra and its Vityl Capacity Management solution, the company needed better visibility into its newly virtualized AIX platform and a safer way to manage shared CPU pools without risking outages or overbuying capacity.

Fortra implemented Vityl Capacity Management to automate reporting, model capacity more accurately, and optimize CPU and memory allocation across the environment. The result was a more streamlined virtualized infrastructure: the company reduced its cost per unit of CPU by 25%, increased LPARs by 100 while cutting server administration staff from 10 to 8, and avoided costly CPU purchases, power, cooling, and maintenance expenses.