Burges Salmon chooses HP Converged Infrastructure for low-risk move, improved resilience and Infrastructure upgrade


“We will save £30,000 a year in electricity costs alone. I am also looking at a reduction of approximately 50 per cent in our support costs, and management of the new servers will be a lot easier.” Andy Seaman, head of service delivery, Burges Salmon


Objective


To support the company’s consolidation and move to a new location, Burges Salmon wanted to upgrade its IT infrastructure to improve resilience and support business growth.


Approach


Burges Salmon selected the HP Converged Infrastructure to accelerate business transformation and drive IT simplicity, integration and automation for the future.


IT improvements


HP customer case study: Burges Salmon chooses HP Converged Infrastructure for low-risk move and improved resilience


Industry: Law


• Allows for faster and easier provisioning and management of servers.


• Near-instantaneous failover to Disaster Recovery site.


• Virtualisation technology allows IT support to be more responsive to end users


Business benefi ts


• Risks of relocation minimised with Disaster Recovery strategy.


• Reduced number of physical servers by 80 per cent saving £30,000 (€34,000) a year through lower electricity usage.


• Support costs reduced by 50 per cent.


• Resilience and uptime of IT infrastructure improved.


• Reduced spend on IT operations, increased spend on IT innovation.


Based in Bristol in the west of England, Burges Salmon is a commercial legal firm with around 650 employees. It provides national and international clients with full service across a range of practice areas and industry sectors, and aims to be the first choice alternative to London lawyers.


Recently, the firm decided to move its entire staff from three locations to a new single site in central Bristol, which will help improve its client service and expand the business. This move drove Burges Salmon to review its IT infrastructure, and it decided it was the right time to upgrade the entire system to support business growth, improve availability and reduce operating costs.


“Having looked at all the options out there, we decided to take a relatively risk-free approach, but at the same time use as much new technology as we could,” says Andy Seaman, head of service delivery at Burges Salmon.


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