Despite the carefree, laid-back nature of a cruise, one leading cruise line company's inner workings require a cutting-edge and highly efficient IT infrastructure.

With each ship requiring between 13 and 22 physical servers with direct-attached storage, the already limited floor space was quickly filling up. The IT team had to reduce the physical, power and cooling footprint of each ship's IT infrastructure in order to remain efficient and afloat.

This case study breaks down this company's approach to cutting down their server footprint, increasing availability for shipboard virtual servers and making shore-side management of storage arrays at sea possible. Read on to learn more.