City of Bunbury in Western Australia Selects IBM PureSystems

IBM Corporation
announced that the City of Bunbury,
one of the largest a regional local governments in Western Australia,
has selected IBM’s PureSystems technology to streamline and simplify their IT
infrastructure and provide a cloud-ready environment to deliver future
initiatives such as local Government private cloud computing.

Faced with exponential growth of data and
server sprawl, the City needed a scalable solution to address not only current
needs but to take them well into the future. Working closely with IBM Business
Partner Stott + Hoare, Bunbury
selected the IBM PureFlex System that integrates server, IBM Storwize V7000
storage, networking and software into an automated,
simple-to-manage system. Bunbury, along with Stott + Hoare, will virtualize
their desktops and mobile devices to reside on the IBM PureFlex system for
greater organisational flexibility and ongoing cost reductions.

"Our
end goal is to not only deliver exceptional 24/7 levels of service to Bunbury’s
residents, but establish the City as a technology leader whose IT systems can
become a template for other councils throughout the state and beyond; PureFlex
offers us this long-term technical solution," said City of Bunbury CEO,
Andrew Brien . "We are on the cusp
of significant reform where, for instance, the National Broadband Network is
only one of several macro changes which will shape governance in Bunbury and
Australia more broadly. Our primary goal has always been to make sure our IT
systems can handle whatever changes may occur while remaining cost-effective
and efficient. That way we know that when our own functions of government have
to adapt and expand, the technology we use will be able to match us at every
turn."

The City of Bunbury expects the
PureFlex-enabled virtual server environment to reduce hardware replacement
costs, power consumption and time spent maintaining the multiple platforms that
currently sustain the City’s IT operations. Another key factor in its selection
was the ease of managing mass storage and DR.

The PureSystems family offers clients
an alternative to current enterprise computing models, where multiple and
disparate systems require significant resources to set up and maintain.

The true value of PureSystems is the integrated and pre-tuned platforms. The PureFlex System enables organisations
to more efficiently create and manage an infrastructure. PureApplication System
helps organisations reduce the cost and complexity of rapidly deploying and
managing applications. PureData System is tuned for cloud computing and can
consolidate more than 100 databases on a single system. In addition to the
common web application patterns supported by PureApplication System, the
combination of both PureData and PureApplication Systems can be used for end to
end transaction workloads.