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Company Background

Company Background. Established in 1977 80 Employees Directly & 1000 + in 55 dealerships Full range of Nissan passenger & commercial vehicles & Nissan Forklifts Consistently among top five in Irish market Highest Nissan Market share in Europe. Nissan’s IT Environment.

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Company Background

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  1. Company Background • Established in 1977 • 80 Employees Directly & 1000 + in 55 dealerships • Full range of Nissan passenger & commercial vehicles & Nissan Forklifts • Consistently among top five in Irish market • Highest Nissan Market share in Europe

  2. Nissan’s IT Environment • 2 devs, 1 network administrator, and me! • Many Microsoft Technologies in use • Main Technology challenges: • Enable communication • Reduce complexity • Increase productivity • Simplify workflow • Enhance reliability.

  3. Nissan’s IT Mission “To see the services we supply to users taken for granted.  We take water, power, and gas for granted, and they are critical.  IT services are as important.”

  4. Nissan’s and Virtualisation • Moving Premises • Opportunity to reduce costs • Server consolidation, • reduce power/cooling, • Simplified administration • Test and development • Perfect platform for R&D • Simple reconfiguration.  • Ideal way to test OS and application upgrades • Increased level of flexibility • Failover clustering

  5. Why Microsoft • Existing Microsoft skills • No steep learning curve, Familiar interface, terminology and functions.  • Rapid deployment with existing knowledge. • Integration of Hyper-V and VMM with existing environment • VMM not yet deployed but to be rolled out • Management through System Center

  6. Future IT Plans • Continue to Virtualise Servers & to utilise failover clustering • Unified Communications • Self service monitoring through System Center • Proactive IT Management

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