[May 10, 2010]

Telstra Taps IDEAS Server CAR to Help Plot Future Road Map

These days any expenditure on capital items is thoroughly and robustly examined. IT infrastructure decisions are no exception and are under continued close scrutiny. Telstra (News - Alert) has recently renewed its contract with Ideas International (ASX:IDE), for use of its Server CAR, Carbon Calculator and Competitive Profiles suite to assist in making informed and well-planned IT investment decisions.

The Telstra IT group uses IDEAS tools to help improve efficency in its server fleet. In particular the Server CAR is used by Telstra to model various server consolidation scenarios across different vendors or between different architectures (RISC or X86) before a hardware investment is undertaken. Server CAR's performance data adds granularity to the capacity planning and testing function and enables Telstra to make decisions based on independent metrics and tool-sets.

"We use the Server CAR tool from Ideas International to evaluate servers in terms of capacity and relative performance, and this inputs into our future technology road maps," said Carlo Bonato, Manager, Technology Planning, Telstra. "IDEAS tools also aid us in capacity management, which is how we ensure that IT capacity meets current and future business requirements in a cost-effective manner. We value the independent nature of IDEAS services and their services are quick and easy ready reference points around which we can formulate decisions."

Telstra has been a client of IDEAS for over five years and also uses the suite of Competitive Profiles services for cross-vendor comparisons of feature, function and price for enterprise systems, storage and warranty services. Telstra has recently upgraded the suite of services from IDEAS to include the new Smart Import tool.

"We are looking to further help Telstra with deploying the Carbon Calculator which will allow Telstra's IT decision makers to calculate the carbon savings resulting from any transition to a lower power machine from legacy ones," said Ideas International CEO, Stephen Bowhill. "IDEAS will continue to provide tools to help organizations like Telstra to ensure their sourcing processes are efficient and transparent whether a company is focused on reducing costs or becoming more energy efficient or, ideally, both."

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