Case Study: Minnesota Wild achieves lower costs, power use, and storage footprint with Tegile

Minnesota Wild supports fast-changing entertainment services by deploying Tegile solutions. & Cisco Unied Computing System (UCS)

The Minnesota Wild, a professional sports and hospitality organization in St. Paul, needed to simplify IT management, plan for infrastructure growth, and support sustainability goals while serving fans and clients. To meet these challenges, The Minnesota Wild turned to Tegile and Cisco UCS to build a more flexible, scalable data center that could support virtual desktops and future cloud initiatives.

Tegile implemented multiprotocol storage arrays alongside Cisco UCS servers, creating a compact, high-performance virtualized environment for the finance department and other sites. As a result, The Minnesota Wild cut support costs by 43%, reduced power usage by 63%, lowered heat output by 68%, and shrank stored data from 42TB to 17TB, while giving IT more time to focus on customers.

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