System Professional have helped deliver major cost-savings to SEGA Europe and enable a Greener IT infrastructure through VMware vSphere server virtualisation and the associated benefits of hardware consolidation, reduced power consumption and centralised management.

As the European distribution arm of its Japanese parent company – a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home – SEGA Europe is one of the world’s leading software publishers and developers.

With 200 staff at the UK Head Office in Brentford, Middlesex, SEGA Europe employs an additional 300 users at their nearby Quality Assurance site.

Following detailed planning and scoping sessions, System Professional worked closely with the SEGA Europe IT team to deliver the first phase of a robust VMware vSphere server virtualisation infrastructure.

As Francis Hart, Systems Engineer at SEGA Europe explained “VMware vSphere and HP ProLiant solutions were chosen as industry leading, best of breed products. VMware is the most mature server virtualisation product in the marketplace and System Professional had a proven track record in successfully delivering projects of this nature.”

Based in East Sussex, System Professional help businesses resolve technology challenges around server and desktop virtualisation planning, data growth and storage, high availability of key systems and disaster recovery. As a VMware Enterprise Partner, System Professional had the proven skills and experience to help The SEGA Europe team with the VMware vSphere design and installation.

Stuart Wright, IT and Network Director for SEGA Europe concluded that “The VMware vSphere server virtualisation project with System Professional has been a great success. They helped SEGA to deliver an industry leading server infrastructure which has improved service availability for all users across the business. SEGA Europe now benefit from a fully resilient infrastructure and centralised management that will be extended over time.”