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Royal Mail Group has announced an upgrade of its server system to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation infrastructure.

The company has predicted a return on its investment over the next 19 months and is hoping for a reduction in costs of £1.8 million through this switch to hardware virtualisation over the next four years, Computer Weekly reports.

Royal Mail Group will use the new system to enable it to run its legacy systems on state-of-the-art hardware, with the deployment allowing the group to set up a maximum of 720 RMG servers.

"Hyper-V allows us to consolidate all of our legacy servers into a data centre. We have 500 distributed offices, all quite large," said Adrian Steel, head of infrastructure management at Royal Mail Group.

Meanwhile, PC World recently reported research carried out by Molten Technologies showing that the uptake of virtual server technology has been boosted by the perceived additional business agility that this system allows, particularly in supporting flexible and contract workers.

Posted by Victoria Browne