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Midas Medici Announces $1.3 Million Virtualization Contract For Brazilian Military Police

By TechTaffy Desk

Midas Medici, a green IT company in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and data management, has been awarded a $1.3 million contract from the Military Police of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Midas Medici will be upgrading the Military Police’s server infrastructure and enhancing its virtualization environment.

The project is a major upgrade for the Military Police and will consist of eight brand new physical servers, provided by HP, to replace the old server cluster. These servers will be setup and run using virtualization software to provide anywhere from 400 to 500 virtual servers to run the entire intranet environment.

The Military Police of Sao Paulo is the largest state police force in the country of Brazil, with over 100,000 personnel in its ranks.

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