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Solutia Saves Big Bucks With WAN Optimization

Posted by James Rogers on July 29, 2008

Tags: Other,  Virtualization

Channel: Other, Virtualization

Rapidly expanding chemical manufacturer Solutia has shaved more than $130,000 off its annual IT costs by throwing its weight behind WAN optimization.

The company, which has 20 sites dotted across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, began its WAN optimization push in late 2004, according to Rahul Goturi, Solutias CIO.

Four years ago Solutia had just 5,000 employees, although this figure has now swelled to 6,000 thanks to Solutia’s 2007 acquisition of Flexsys, not to mention 1,500 contractors.

“As our company began to grow, we needed to figure out our additional bandwidth need,” says Goturi, explaining that the firm wanted to avoid placing additional expensive T1 links between each of its sites. “We either had to add more bandwidth to each site or look for an alternative.”