Merging two companies meant merging 2 IT platforms, which would deliver strategic value and cost savings. However, there were multiple single contracts for differing Cisco technologies, which covered both traditional and virtualised IT environments. The aim was to reduce complexity, reduce the time required to manage contracts and consolidate Cisco IT spend into one place.

The University of Wolverhampton (UoW) has over 23,000 students, 2,400 staff and four main campuses. They had come to rely on legacy IT systems and were unable to adequately respond to dynamic service requests. Logicalis worked with the University to set up a Hybrid IT platform using Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware technologies.