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A Major Oil Sands Mining Company
And almost without exception, these analyses show that virtualizing with VMware technology is the smartest option.
“From our perspective, having a VMware environment as an IT standard delivers significant business value to our organization. VMware virtualization technology delivers excellent flexibility in meeting our customers’ needs as well as considerable cost savings, which helps us meet our overall company’s business objectives.”
Case Study (pdf)BFL CANADA
BFL CANADA is a fast growing international insurance broker and financial firm. Discover how local solution and service provider Softchoice has helped them transform their business through VMware virtualization.
"When we met Softchoice, we started discussing what possible options we had to improve our IT infrastructure. Right from the start, I felt really comfortable with VMware and Softchoice.”
Centra Construction Group Ltd.
A Flexible And Powerful Virtual Infrastructure Based On VMware vSphere Essentials, That Is Cost-Efficient And Easy To Manage
“VMware vSphere Essentials will change the way you think about servers, infrastructure and what you can do with information technology. It allows you to save on hardware costs and serverdeployment time, and lets you set up test environments on the fly. Because it makes everything easier and cheaper, vSphere will definitely change your world.”
Christie
For Disaster Recovery, Christie Finds VMware Solution
“We started by virtualizing our enterprise applications, and now are implementing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager as our disaster recovery solution. VMware gives us a rock-solid IT infrastructure without the crippling costs of a traditional DR architecture.”
City of Pitt Meadows
City of Pitt Meadows Implements Disaster Recovery Strategy with Help from Local Systems Integrator Sudden Technologies
“The citizens of Pitt Meadows can sleep easy knowing that the City’s data holdings are robustand recoverable. It’s rewarding to show real, tangible value from our investment in VMware and NetApp technologies.”
Desire2Learn
VMware Technology Creates A Scalable Virtual Infrastructure That Increases Scalability And Flexibility While Reducing Provisioning Time And Capital Costs
“Using VMware Infrastructure 3 to create a nearly 100 percent virtual environment, lets us scale to meet our customers’ needs while providing them solid performance and availability.”
Earth Rangers
Environmentally-friendly Organization Achieves 90% Reduction In Power Usage With VMware
“ We required a data centre that was scalable, could give performance and energy efficiency that was in line with the Earth Rangers’ goal to become completely energy neutral, and would support our interactive, global scale business model that is data- and graphics-intensive. Meeting all these goals, plus a 90% reduction in power and cooling demands, is a huge success.”
Georgian College
Use VMware Software to Add Virtual Instead of Physical Machines, Processing the Workload of 25 Physical Servers with Less Than Half that Number
“The initial driver for virtualization was cost avoidance: we were able to do the work of 25 servers with just 12. Besides maximized hardware utilization, minimized disruptions, and the ability to consolidate and share resources, probably the biggest benefit I see from virtualization is saving a considerable amount of time, thanks to simplified management.”
LOGiQ3
LOGiQ3 Gets the Needed Scalability and Security Needed for Life Reinsurance in the Cloud with BlueLock
“With BlueLock, we went from zero to live in four months”
Manitoba Blue Cross
VMware vSphere Creates A Flexible, Portable Virtual Infrastructure That Increases Availability, While VMware Site Recovery Manager Automates Disaster Recovery Processes
“VMware Site Recovery Manager has turned disaster recovery from a manual process into a push-button operation. It’s hard to put a price tag on that kind of simplification.”
Manitoba Liquor Control Commission (MLCC)
Manitoba Liquor Control Commission Devises Agile Methodology, Wins Over Stakeholders to Virtualize JD Edwards
“Myth: No one else is doing ERP on VMware. Reality: We found many companies that have successfully virtualized ERP. The performance of our JD Edwards application on VMware vSphere is stellar.”
March Networks
VMware vSphere Provides the Foundation for New Managed Video Network Services Offerings
“What do I think of the VMware solution? It’s employee retention in a box. I honestly don’t know how I could do my job without it.”
McMaster University
McMaster University Engineers Virtualized Computer Lab
“The success of our virtualized engineering computer lab speaks for itself. Our VMware View 4 environment delivers the processing power we need to support our engineering students’ CAD and 3D simulation applications. As a virtualized environment, it is also sustainable, requiring 91 percent less power and cooling than our last traditional lab. We see VMware View 4 as an ideal model for any future computer labs.”
Meridian Credit Union
Meridian Credit Union Adopts Desktop Virtualization To Strengthen Sales And Service And Contribute To Its Corporate Social Responsibility Program
“Virtualization is one of the many ways IT is aligning our work with Meridian’s strategic initiatives. As we think ahead and implement this type of business-savvy technology, we provide our employees with the right tools they need to offer superior personalized service to our Members.”
Omni Companies
Financial Services Provider Target a Secure, PCI DSS-Compliant, Virtualized Environment for Online Services
“Our goal was to come up with a scalable foundation that was compliant with the standards required in the insurance and finance industries... The answer was a VMware cluster of servers hosted by a local datacenter service provider and protected with Trend Micro security.”
Ottawa International Airport
Ottawa International Blazes New Trails in Virtualization Journey New Technology for a New Airport
“VMware is the mission-critical system that runs our mission-critical systems.”
ParetoLogic Inc.
Robust Server Virtualization with VMware Allows ParetoLogic to Build a Sustainable Expansion Strategy, Deliver Seamless Service to Customers
“We need an infrastructure that is robust, cost-effective and error-proof. Virtualizing with VMware gives us all that, and allows us room to keep growing.”
Quebecor
Printing Company Spreads the Word About Virtualization’s Merits
“Using VMware software on our Intel processors with Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled has allowed us to get excellent performance out of our virtual machines!”
Red Deer College
VMware View Provides The Foundation For A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure That Makes Desktop Environments Easy To Deploy, Easy To Access, And Easy To Manage
“Since we were already using VMware technology to virtualize our servers, it just seemed like a natural progression for us to move to VMware View for our desktops. We’ve really done our due diligence, and we’re confident in our decision.”
Ryerson
With VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, 130 Servers Are Consolidated Onto 13 Physical Hosts—While Providing Faculty and Students With an Unprecedented Level of Service, Including Dramatically Fast and Inexpensive Server Provisioning, Better Backup and Comprehensive Disaster Protection
“It’s just amazing the kind of benefits—and even joy—my department is experiencing since converting our environment with VMware Infrastructure 3 a year ago. With cutting-edge VMware management tools like VirtualCenter, VMotion, High Availability and Consolidated Backup, our systems administrators’ roles have changed so much, they see their jobs differently. And providing clients with a whole new level of service puts them on a different level: They’ve become heroes.”
