A major IT initiative is the utilisation of system virtualisation technologies to reduce the requirement for physical server hardware. Over the last three years, ROC has migrated the majority of its physical server infrastructure to a virtualised platform, allowing greater utilisation of existing and new server hardware.
This includes the server infrastructure across ROC’s offices in Sydney and Beijing, as well as smaller regional sites and production facilities. Overall, cooling and power consumption requirements for running ROC’s data centres has reduced by over 75% as a result of this initiative.