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Electricity, water and public transport for the Bavarian metropolis
Stadtwerke München (SWM) is a city-owned utility and service company.
As a service provider for the capital and its region, SWM plays
a central role in providing vital services of general interest to Munich’s
citizens. For decades, SWM has supplied the Bavarian metropolis
with energy (electricity, natural gas and district heating)
and fresh drinking water from the alpine uplands of Bavaria and
consistently assures the maximum safe and prudent use of resources.
In addition to energy production and water catchment, its services
comprise grid and network management, sales and distribution
– and with 18 indoor and outdoor swimming pools SWM operates
one of the most modern bathing environments in Germany.
The MVG transport subsidiary is responsible for the underground,
bus and tram systems and is therefore a significant pillar in Munich’s
public transport network. SWM has approximately 7,000 employees,
making it not only one of the major employers in Munich
but also one of the largest municipal utilities in Germany.
Two data centers for automated disaster recovery
In the same way that SWM spurs the implementation of innovative
and pioneering infrastructure measures in the Bavarian capital including,
for instance, fiberglass grid extensions or expanding district
heating, it also invests in state-of-the-art and future-proof IT
infrastructure for the company. SWM has been relying on virtualization
for some time. However, the new challenge was to create an
Stadtwerke München Blade Servers
automated disaster recovery concept for maximum security – and
the construction of a second data center opened up the possibility
of its implementation. “We use the second site as a failover data
center and are thus able to attain a higher level of availability,”
explains Pascal Fuckerieder, Team Leader Database Applications
at SWM. “At the same time we wanted to achieve convenient scalability
for our server landscape.” The ability to automatically recover
critical business applications is based on a concept that combines
easily scalable PRIMERGY Blade Servers with intelligent manageability
solutions by Fujitsu and VMware.
The Dynamic Cube
The PRIMERGY BX900 “Dynamic Cube” is a complete Dynamic
Server Infrastructure in a single blade cube. This blade server can
be dynamically adapted to different IT requirements, thereby reducing
costs while increasing your IT agility. For large enterprise
datacenter, the PRIMERGY BX900 can be equipped with up to 18
server blades in a 10U chassis, enabling to react to rapidly changing
needs. If you need maximum availability, particularly within
a virtualized environment, the PRIMERGY BX900 will meet all your
requirements, with the scalability to cope with peak workloads.
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