Background
Home to approximately 475,000 residents, Tampa Bay-area Pasco County provides technical services and support to approximately 4,000 users ranging from emergency personnel to government officials. These services include enabling server functionality and meeting telephony/communication needs. Pasco County’s continued IT growth coupled with the budget constraints that come with being a taxpayer-funded entity required a cost-effective and highly available data center update.
Results
- Achieved savings of 60 percent over a traditional computer room by implementing the SmartRow™ offering
- Saved $80,000 in installation costs, completing the project within four months
- Reduced potential fire suppression system costs by $28,000
- Raised IT productivity with remote monitoring capabilities
- Created a data center where people could work safely and comfortably due to internal fire suppression system and low noise factor
| Case Summary | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Pasco County, Florida |
| Critical Need: | To properly support critical government services, Pasco County needed to update the data center environment to align with increasing IT needs and a limited budget, while maintaining safety and availability. |
| Vertiv Solution: |
Vertiv SmartRow infrastructure solution |
