A leading U.S.-based insurance provider used Galileo to uncover significant inefficiencies in its database infrastructure and take action quickly. With clear visibility into actual resource utilization, the organization was able to consolidate servers, reduce licensing costs, and improve overall operational efficiency - achieving results in days instead of weeks.
The Challenge: Limited Visibility into Overprovisioned Infrastructure
The organization needed to assess utilization across more than 200 physical servers supporting its database environment. While each server was configured with 24 cores, actual usage was significantly lower, typically between two and four cores.
Seventy-five percent of these servers supported a single application, making this a high-impact opportunity for cost reduction. However, the team lacked a centralized way to analyze performance and utilization across the environment.
Without the right visibility, identifying consolidation opportunities would have required weeks of manual data collection and analysis.
ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT
Only 2–4 cores utilized per server
200 total physical servers / 24 cores per server
75% of servers supported a single application
The Solution: Use Galileo Data to Eliminate Waste
The insurance provider began using Galileo through a trial engagement. During a regular working session with a Galileo solutions expert, the team identified how Galileo could address its software licensing challenges.
With guidance from the solution expert, the organization deployed Galileo across its database hosts. They then used Virtual Frame Tagging to group and tag all relevant systems.
This provided complete visibility into aggregated CPU, memory, network, disk, and storage utilization. With a clear, data-backed view of usage, the team identified consolidation opportunities and created a roadmap to reduce infrastructure footprint and licensing costs.
The Results: Significant Cost and Efficiency Gains
Without Galileo, analyzing database utilization for consolidation would have been complex and time-consuming - requiring weeks of manual effort.
With Galileo, the organization completed the initiative in just a few days.
1. Server Consolidation
The organization reduced its physical server count by 87%, consolidating the database environment to just 25 servers.
2. Software Licensing Cost Savings
This consolidation resulted in millions of dollars in annual software licensing savings.
3. Operational Savings
By reducing infrastructure footprint, the organization also lowered data center costs, including power and cooling.
