Case Study: Bankrate, Inc achieves rapid, low‑downtime data center consolidation and improved efficiency with US Signal

Why Bankrate chose OneNeck to help with their center consolidation and upgrades

Bankrate, Inc faced rapid growth from acquisitions and needed to consolidate servers and upgrade two Denver data centers to prevent downtime, data loss and budget overruns. US Signal was engaged to tackle this challenge, leveraging solutions such as Cisco Nexus 7010 switches and EMC VNX7500 unified storage to provide scalable bandwidth and large-capacity, high-performance storage.

US Signal handled procurement, installation, project management, staging, cut-over and post-installation support, completing the upgrade in just 12 hours on schedule and on budget with minimal downtime. As a result, Bankrate, Inc now uses about 60% of its UCS capacity, reduced its CPU footprint from 36 CPUs to 8, achieved better utilization and faster throughput, simplified management, and benefits from ongoing support from US Signal.

Bankrate, Inc

James Harvey

Vice President of Systems