Oil Company Improves Branch Office Infrastructure With Server Virtualization

Overview

Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) runs an oil pipeline system that extends between Kazakhstan and Russia's Black Sea coast. CPC is expanding rapidly and needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support business growth. Branch locations often managed their own servers, but space constraints and limited power supplies in remote areas restricted expansion. To ease management and improve scalability, CPC is deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on virtual servers running on Windows Server 2008. The company is also taking advantage of support for 64-bit processors to improve performance. CPC can easily add more servers without significantly increasing hardware and power consumption, and e-mail service to employees will be more reliable as well. With Windows Server 2008, CPC is implementing a solution that can grow with the company.