MARKET: FINANCIAL SERVICES
NAME: PNC BANK

HEADQUARTERS: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
INDUSTRY: Financial
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Deposit, lending, cash management and investment services
REVENUE: $16 billion
EMPLOYEES: 51,000+
WEBSITE: www.pnc.com

With more than $250 billion in assets, PNC is one of the largest financial services firms in the country. But they were managing their infrastructure using spreadsheets and other inefficient, manual methods, leading to inaccurate asset tracking. With Nlyte, planning became proactive, and nearly 500 orphaned servers were identified and retired, resulting in rapid ROI. “With Nlyte, we not only freed up half a megawatt of power, but also extended the life of our data center from five to 15 years.”

MARKET: HEALTHCARE
NAME: SUTTER HEALTH

HEADQUARTERS: Sacramento, CA, USA
INDUSTRY: Healthcare
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Not-for-profit health system providing a variety of healthcare
REVENUE: $12 billion
EMPLOYEES: 51,000+
WEBSITE: www.sutterhealth.org

As a healthcare provider, Sutter Health strives for an excellent, positive patient experience. When they selected Nlyte as their DCIM provider, one of their goals was consolidation – six data centers into two. In order to accomplish this task, Sutter Health needed an accurate inventory of their assets – where they were, how they were interconnected, etc. Nlyte made it easy and quick for the company to track their assets and consolidate their facilities for better efficiency and cost savings. “No other company is capable of providing the broad capabilities…that Nlyte provides.”

MARKET: HIGH TECH
NAME: CISCO

HEADQUARTERS: San Jose, CA, USA
INDUSTRY: Networking Equipment
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Networking Device, Network Management, Teleconferencing
REVENUE: 48 billion
EMPLOYEES: 72,000+
WEBSITE: www.cisco.com

As the largest networking company in the world, Cisco’s highly distributed data centers support offices and operations in 90+ countries. They needed a centralized view of assets, power management and workflow. Nlyte delivered with asset lifecycle management, real-time power information, and the customer’s favorite – workflow management. “We used Nlyte…we actually deferred the build of a data center for $20 million…and also saved about 7% of our operating costs.”

MARKET: TELECOM
NAME: PROXIMUS

HEADQUARTERS: Brussels, BE
INDUSTRY: Telecommunications
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Internet, mobile, phone and TV services
REVENUE: 6 billion euro
EMPLOYEES: 14,000+
WEBSITE: www.proximus.be

Proximus is Belgium’s leading quadruple-play operator. Two of their key priorities are enhancing customer experience and becoming more efficient. Nlyte helped them accomplish both by providing a great view of the entire data center estate and making troubleshooting faster and more efficient. Full visibility makes for faster, better, more informed decision making, enabling cost savings. “Before Nlyte we were in the dark…there was little we could do to figure out where a problem might be coming from, or who would be affected. (Now) we know exactly what to do.”

MARKET: COLOCATION PROVIDERS
NAME: COMPUTACENTER

HEADQUARTERS: Hatfield, UK
INDUSTRY: Information Technology including data centre managed services
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Provider of IT infrastructure services
REVENUE: 3.8 billion GBP
EMPLOYEES: 10,000+
WEBSITE: www.computacenter.com

Computacenter provides computer services to both the private and public sectors. Their business needs were to integrate the data centres of a newly acquired company while delivering cost-effective services to their customers. Nlyte helped them with both these goals by giving them a central view of all data centre assets and capacity and providing added value to Computacenters tenants, such as more accurate billing and meeting their SLAs. “With Nlyte, and its advanced analytic capabilities, we have been able to gain control over our data centres.”

MARKET: CONSUMER
NAME: WALGREENS

HEADQUARTERS: Deerfield, IL, USA
INDUSTRY: Health and Well-Being Retail
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Global Pharmaceutical Wholesale and Distribution
REVENUE: 117 billion
EMPLOYEES: 235,000+
WEBSITE: www.walgreens.com

Walgreens, the largest drug retail chain with locations in 11 countries, boasts 13,100 stores. They came to Nlyte because they wanted to improve the tracking of assets in their data center, and reduce the time it took to deploy new assets. Nlyte helped them quickly move their asset data from home-grown and inefficient solutions to Nlyte’s easy to use solution, for real-time tracking of adds, moves and changes. Nlyte’s capacity dashboards make it simple and fast to see where new equipment can be added safely. “Nlyte is not just a product, but…a business partner.”