Case Study - Telecommunications Company Reaps the Benefits of Refurbished Hardware with their Blade Server Upgrade Project

Overview

The Technical Project Manager of a Telecommunications company contacted Intelligent Servers when he was looking to upgrade their data centre infrastructure. The British telecommunications company specialises in international calls and has over 2.5 million customers. Like many communication businesses, they have seen a growing number of users during the covid pandemic. This led to an urgent requirement to upgrade parts of their infrastructure to keep up with demand.

Industry: Telecommunications 

Hardware: HPE ProLiant c7000 enclosure and BL460c Gen9 Blade Servers

Business Size: 500 employees

Location: London, UK

 

The Specification

HP ProLiant c7000 Enclosure

• 1x 681844-B21 - HP BLc7000 G3 Platinum Enclosure
• 2x 571956-B21 - HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port Module
• 1x 432461-001 - HP c7000 Enclosure Rack Rail Kit
• 1x 409496-001 - HP c7000 I/O SUV Diagnostics Cable

16x HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Blade Servers

• 1x 727021-B21 - HP BL460c Gen9 V3 SFF CTO Blade Server
• 2x SR1XS - Intel Xeon E5-2670v3 12-Core 2.30GHz Processor
• 6x 726719-B21 - HP 16GB (1x16GB) Registered Memory Kit
• 1x 749680-B21 - HPE Smart Array P244br/1GB FBWC 12Gb 2-ports Int SAS Controller
• 2x 781518-B21 - HP 1.2TB 12G 10K 2.5" Drive
• 1x 656590-B21 - HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB Adapter
• 1x 512485-B21 - HP iLO Advanced Including 1yr24x7 Technical Support

Savings of up to 80% with Refurbished

The total order came to £11,000 exc vat saving the company thousands of pounds compared to if they chose new equivalents of the hardware, which would have cost over £100,000. On average, our customers save 80% by choosing professionally refurbished hardware!

Fast Turnaround

Intelligent Servers was able to process the order, configure, test, pack and deliver the Servers in a ready to deploy condition within a week. The global supply chain constraints for new retail hardware that are currently burdening the IT industry are another reason why more and more businesses are choosing refurbished hardware over new.  You only need to google ‘HP Server Lead Time’ to see the countless forums discussing the frustrating leads times from HPE, such as 4 week delivery on servers, Intel shortages causing 60 day leads times and laptops taking 6 weeks to arrive. At refurbished hardware suppliers like Intelligent Servers, we stock over 250,000 IT parts, so the hardware is ready for immediate dispatch when you place an order.

Free Three Year Warranty and Remote Support

All of the refurbished hardware also came with our market leading free three year next business day hardware replacement warranty as well as our free 3 year remote hardware setup and support service.

Savings, fast turnaround and a 3 year warranty! What’s not to like about refurbished hardware?

Intelligent Servers is a leading refurbished server, storage, networking and components reseller. We specialise in HP, Dell and Cisco, supplying thousands of businesses across Europe. With over 10 years of experience refurbishing all aspects of used enterprise IT hardware, you can trust Intelligent Servers to deliver your IT hardware on time and a grade A refurbished standard.

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