HSBC has 22 data centres in 10 countries, supporting 312,000 staff and 125 million customers. Implementation of VISTA 500 will begin this year and is expected to be complete worldwide by 2009.

Edward Case, a Senior Business Consultant with the Global Data Centre Services organisation at HSBC, said: “Having accurate, consistent and readily available knowledge of your data centre inventory and what you have running where, together with your power, cooling and space capacity is not easy to achieve. VISTA will provide a central repository, so we can see this information both on a data centre basis and globally. VISTA will also bring consistency to our processes for managing data centres. For anyone who needs to understand what is consuming resources in the data centre, VISTA is an important tool.”