Managed IT Services
Keeping Business on the Fast Track

INDUSTRY

Energy & Utilities

ORGANIZATION

ITC Holdings Corp is the United States’ first fully-independent for profit electric transmission company. Their business is transmitting high voltage electricity in bulk from power generating facilities across Michigan and other Midwestern regions. The three operating companies – ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC (METC), and ITC Midwest – serve an area of nearly 80,000 square miles in five states. Their service area has a population of more than 13 million people. They operate approximately 15,000 circuit miles of overhead and underground transmission lines, carrying more than 25,000 megawatts (or 25 billion watts) of electric power.

SITUATION

ITC Holdings was moving to a brand new $300 million corporate headquarters building as a result of the company’s explosive growth. The move offered a perfect opportunity to reduce hardware costs and improve availability.

SOLUTION

Logicorps proposed and implemented a virtualization solution utilizing VMware products which reduced the number of servers in the new headquarters facility while still allowing for rapid provisioning of new services and future growth.

TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTED

• Dell R900 server hardware
• Dell EqualLogic
• VMware ESX version 3.5 and Virtual Center Server
• VMware Converter for physical to virtual conversion
• Microsoft SQL back-end and all servers running Windows Datacenter 2003 or Redhat Linux