Founded in 1793, Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house and one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. Bonhams needed a scalable, cost-effective system for remote management and full disaster recovery between its data centers in New York and San Francisco.
At each site, the auction house deployed four IBM System x 3650 class servers with intelligent Intel Xeon processors running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1 with KVM and Acronis Backup & Recovery Virtual Edition for RHEV, an IBM System x 3550 class server running RHEV-M, and IBM System Storage DS3524. The upgrade has enabled Bonhams to reduce its number of servers by 75%, save 40% on project costs and ensure global business continuity. Read the case study here.