BT Plans Virtualised Data Centres

BT is planning to deploy an entirely virtualised environment across its global data centres. According to the company's vice president of Web21C, Stefan Van Overtveldt, BT's presence across the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions consists of 3,500 internal and 1,400 customer platforms served between its data centres.

Virtualising the data centres has already helped with consolidating its servers and the eventual plan is to distribute work loads between the data centres irrespective of location.

The process will also assist the company plan and manage its disaster recovery strategy. Some of the centres are already prepared for load-balancing. BT started consolidating through virtualisation in May last year and plans to complete the migration over the next two years.

The virtualisation process, has apparently enabled the company to remove 1,800 racks. BT's plan with legacy applications is to delete them after there has been no activity for over six months. During this process, BT also plans to standardise the platforms it will be using inside its network.

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