Data Center Strategies by Logicalis Contribute to Customer Savings of $4.5 Million in IT Infrastructure Costs, Information Week Reports
Logicalis' partnership with Valassis recognized in Information Week article on innovative IT infrastructures.


COLUMBUS, OH, August 10, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Logicalis, an international leader in high-performance technology solutions, highlighted its partnership with Valassis, a global media and marketing firm, for an article on innovative IT infrastructures. Logicalis and Valassis worked together to transform Valassis' data center, as well as the migration of server, storage and networking systems.

Valassis Chairman, President and CEO Alan F. Schultz, summed up the result of the migration in-sourcing in a quarterly statement, "We expect to begin realizing annualized cost savings of approximately $4.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2008."

Valassis IT, with the full support of senior corporate executives, decided the time had come to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of its overall data center needs and implement a strategy that would rein in the runaway operating costs, inefficiencies and risks associated with the patchwork configuration that its IT infrastructure had become over the years.

The project involved expanding Valassis' main data center near the Livonia, Michigan, headquarters. "Logicalis was a full-fledged partner. Their technical folks were working next to our technical folks. Their project management people were working next to our project management people," Valassis Chief Architect Bill Demsky said. "They were taking the good shifts and the bad shifts. In cases where we didn't have the experience, they were showing us how to do it," continued Demsky.

You can find more information about how Valassis and Logicais worked together to transform the data center at http://www.us.logicalis.com/custexp_valassis.htm.

The original article, "Amidst the Gloom, How CIOs are Driving IT Infrastructure Innovation," appeared August 1, 2009 in Information Week, http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/data_centers/showArticle ... =218900147.

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