ROME, Italy – Cisco today announced that Tele Sistemi Ferroviari (TSF) S.p.A., Italy’s leader in the development and management of ICT services for the transport and logistics sector, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System in its data center. Serving the national railways authorities, TSF has seen business activity double in the last few years due to increasing demand from its customers for more IT services. As a result it has had to cope with a corresponding increase in data storage capacity.

By deploying the Cisco Unified Computing System and basing its strategy on the Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture, TSF has consolidated its data storage, server storage and CPU resources so they are more effectively shared across the whole data center. This delivers a more flexible service for its customers, enabling near real-time provisioning of new services and scaling up existing applications as needed. TSF estimates that the total cost of ownership of its data centers will fall by as much as 40 per cent as a result of deploying the Cisco Unified Computing System.

The deployment of Cisco’s Unified Computing System forms part of TSF’s new business model, “Datacenter As-A-Service,” to shift the infrastructure from a cost-center to a revenue generating facility. Called “HyperCED”, this project has adopted key technologies such as Unified Fabric, Virtualization-Aware networks and Unified Computing to efficiently address the increasing demand for data storage and computing capacity seen by TSF and its customers.