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Sprint Nextel Corp. has cut about $20 million in information technology operating costs and trimmed its IT carbon footprint by 10,450 metric tons by managing data center growth and ending IT redundancies.
The Overland Park, Kan.-based wireless carrier (NYSE: S) said Monday that the gains came from an 11-month internal audit last year of IT operations, documented by Forrester Research in a case study.
To limit rising IT maintenance and support costs, the release said, Sprint phased out 127 nonessential and underused applications, disposed of servers or put them to different uses, and freed data center capacity, measures which also reduced carbon emissions and power use. That contributed to the $20 million IT savings.
Sprint said it reclaimed $28 million by retiring or redeploying 2,239 servers and reclaiming 291,042 gigabytes of storage, which meant less need for more storage space or servers and no need to build a new data center facility.
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