A major financial services and insurance company needed greater data center capacity across multiple geographic locations. An "IT Optimization Planning data center assessment" provided a detailed blueprint for the future and saved approximately US$20 million in investment costs. "Server Consolidation" helped a German manufacturer reduce costs and increase performance and security. The IBM team reduced the number of data center servers from more than 40 to 3, which lowered long-term support and maintenance costs. A major energy and utilities client needed to reduce energy costs of an existing data center and be a custodian of energy conservation to their data center clients. They conducted a "Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment" and were able to identify 44% annual energy saving; with 19% savings possible with actions in less than a two-year payback. A large prestigious European bank reduced phone costs by 25% and boosted employee productivity by implementing IP telephony and converged network solutions. IBM helped a global electronics company redefine its IT infrastructure with "virtualization technology" to reduce server count by 80% and enable centralized server management. This saved US$322,000 in annual server support costs and set the stage for total cost reduction of approximately 43% over 3 years. An international travel and transportation company implemented IBM "Network Application Optimization Services" and yielded a 10-fold increase in link capacity, $1.3 million in first-year savings, and a one-month ROI. A leading financial services company has estimated a US$5 million annual reduction in telecom spending after engaging IBM to manage their telecom expense process. One of the top hospitals in the United States reduced in-house security costs by up to 55% when it engaged "IBM Internet Security Systems" to perform network security monitoring and management. A global automobile manufacturer wanted to optimize and virtualize its servers in order to reduce data center space, software licensing costs, and climbing operations and maintenance expenditures. IBM helped this client consolidate its 76 servers down to only 6, while also reducing complexity and total cost of ownership. IBM helped a leading provider of home security systems and monitoring services implement an innovative call center. Linking servers using and IBM "Grid Computing Solution" provided a multiple platform environment capable of handling substantial processing loads. Expected savings are more than US$1 million in the first 18 months of operation. | 
