Platform transformation assessment across 2,000 applications (Case Study)
2,000 applications assessed globally against consolidation and transformation objectives for a leading investment bank.

200 critical applications migrated to new DR facilities (Case Study)
Large-scale front office DR migration to comply with post 9/11 FED guidelines.

Zero business impact through aggressive data center migration (Case Study)
>200 hosts supporting a whole business unit for a leading asset management company were migrated over 7 weekends at short notice to support a building sale.

Data center strategy for leading investment bank (Case Study)
Defined and agreed UK data center strategy for a heavily space-constrained leading investment bank

Remediation of audit points across 7,000 servers (Case Study)
Rescue of remediation and transformation program in leading global investment bank, being delivered as part of a large-scale outsourcing contract.

Hosting architecture for eTrading application suite (Case Study)
Review of external market options for managed hosting of a critical eTrading application suite which lead to improved internal architecture.

Remote trader desktop solutions allows 20m GBP cost avoidance (Case Study)
Leading global bank avoided 20m GBP data center M&E upgrade by utilising remote desktop technology from another datacenter.

Not easy being green (Commentary)
Pragmatic steps towards lowering Data Center energy consumption.

IDC conference: Recouping costs in the data center (Presentation)
Examples of pragmatic cost savings opportunities in typical data centers.

Are Blade Servers really worth the price premium? (Commentary)
Blade servers are proposed by some as a panacea to management problems.  Do they really provide the value to justify their higher cost?

$30m DC cost avoidance for leading insurer
Power and cooling upgrades avoided through better demand planning and improved efficiencies.

£26m DC cost avoidance for Tier 1 bank
Citihub capacity planning and sourcing exercise resulted in right-sizing of new external facility acquisition - saving £26m.

IT Transformation - leading insurance company (Case Study)
20% headcount savings, 17% reduction in infrastructure costs, 50% reduction in server footprint through EMEA-wide transformation of IT estate including organisational change, financial transparency and chargeback improvements and introduction of new shared services.

Is your grid burning money?
Grid optimisation and enterprise grid considerations

Chasing Grid Efficiency (Waters special report)
Citihub sponsored report on Grid efficiency