Implementing a hosted disaster recovery service based
on VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager has enabled
Australian Hearing to avoid AUD$450,000 in costs, recover its
critical applications in three hours or less and test its business
continuity capabilities without disrupting the organisation.
“Our business continuity and
disaster recovery plans refer to
a 48-hour recovery time as an
absolute maximum. We can now
recover all our key applications
in no more than three hours.”
— Peter Gasparovic , Chief Information Officer, Australian Hearing
VMware Infrastructure 3 Provides A Platform For Creating A Scalable And Flexible Virtual Infrastructure That Reduces Costs And Eases Administration
“VMware technology has played a critical role in helping us modernize our central IT environment. VMware is creating a true partnership that isn’t just about selling licenses—it’s about giving us what we need to be successful in our goals.”
VMware Technology Creates A Virtual Platform That Allows More Efficient Delivery Of IT Services
“We now spend more time asking ourselves ‘What do our scientists need to be more effective at their jobs?’ and less
time worrying about keeping our infrastructure up and running.”
A Large Property & Casualty Insurance Organization
VMware Technology Provides Flexibility For Growth, Improves Business Responsiveness, And Strengthens Business Continuity
“Our VMware deployment has totally changed thinking within our organization on how to be more agile and deliver IT services more efficiently. That’s on top of just making things a whole lot easier.”
VMware vSphere 4 Creates An IT Environment That Is Easier To Manage, Easier To Keep Available, And Easier To Recover—All While Lowering Overall Costs
“VMware vSphere has been a huge benefit to us. It saves time, it saves money, and it makes our critical applications more available and recoverable. It’s hard to think of an aspect of IT where vSphere isn’t playing an important supporting role for us.”
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.”
By Adopting VMware Virtualization, ABB Grain Was Able To Meet Its DR Requirements While Rapidly Integrating New Acquirees Into Its Business. The Organization Saved A$60,000 In Server Maintenance Costs While Implementing A Dynamic Infrastructure.
“VMware has delivered a robust, scalable, dynamic infrastructure that allows us to quickly integrate newly-acquired businesses and implement a standard corporate environment without making huge investments in new hardware.”
— Tony Garland, Infrastructure Projects Supervisor
VMware vSphere enabled
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Singapore to consolidate 27
application environments, two
separate email systems and
two directory services, and
automate disaster recovery
processes between two
datacenters.
“By running VMware virtualization based on Intel processor-based servers, we have avoided adding about 150 new physical servers at a cost of more than USD$600,000 and created a resilient virtual datacenter environment where we can cater for new business requirements.”
— Dirk Sibiet, Executive Director, Country Technology Officer, SIngapore and United Arab Emirates
Learn how Acorda Therapeutics successfully implemented a strategic disaster recovery (DR) capability to protect its highly virtualized IT operations and data.
"One of the most prominent changes is recovery time, especially with this technology such as virtualization using VMware. You no longer need to restore from physical tape and see recovery times of upwards of 24 hours, something that we hadn’t seen until recently. We implemented Site Recovery Manager (SRM) from VMware and we can now do that same recovery in about four hours."
— Josh Bauer, Senior Manager of Network Operations
Acorda Therapeutics is a rapidly growing midsized Biotech company who recently implemented a new disaster recovery strategy – instead of restoring from physical tapes which took an upwards of 24 hours, now with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) they can do the same recovery in about four hours.
“We no longer have to go to a cold sight and recover everything from tape and spend literally our entire weekends, doing the disaster recovery to meet the FDA’s guidelines. Now with SRM we we can do it from our own homes and just really create a test right then and there, within hours it’s up and running. We’ve proven that we can recover in disaster”
Discover what led Acorda Therapeutics to move to a 100% virtualized environment and how they proved to Oracle consultants that their applications run better on VMware.
“At this point we’ve virtualized 100 percent of our infrastructure, and some of those applications that I’m referring to would be Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, more recently Oracle databases, and several custom applications that are specific to our industry”
Discover how Acorda Therapeutics adopted VMware® virtualization technology to ensure its IT infrastructure is scalable and poised to support potentially rapid future growth.
"Committing to VMware virtualization technology gives us tremendous elasticity as a business, without an enormous up-front capital investment in hardware. It is a perfect fit for us.”
Challenge was to have a reliable cloud solution as part of service-oriented offerings meeting the needs of small and medium sized customers. Data Center as a Service based on VMware vCloud was the best solution.
“VMware vCloud offers great added value, especially for our small and medium-sized customers. Virtualized data centers let our customers benefit from technologies and security standards that they would not be able to achieve on their own.”
— Peter Zach, Member of the Managing Board of ACP IT Solutions AG
VMware View Provides the Foundation for ACS
Work at Home Program.
Desktop Virtualization Solution Cuts Costs, Improves Productivity, and Speeds Server Deployments for Remote Users and Offshore Developers
“VMware View enables us to be quick to respond, quick to resolve, and quick to provision desktops to meet our clients’ urgent business needs.”
— Todd Coughlin, Vice President of End User Computing Strategy
See how Acxiom deployed VMware vShield to streamline its security architecture for a leading Fortune 20 financial services customer. The results include granular visibility and control.
“With vShield you can show the security blanket across systems. It makes it a lot easier for us to demonstrate that we are doing the things that are required legally and contractually.”
— Brandon Nelson, Team Leader and Systems Engineer
Germany’s ADAC e.V. is Europe’s largest automobile association with more than 18 million members using the company’s various services from roadside assistance to automobile insurance. ADAC decided to move several smaller offices into one main office location in Munich. This enabled them to introduce a new way for their employees to work. Employees now have the option to sit at any desk in any part of the building and can easily access their desktop wherever they are. VMware Mirage was selected as it was the only product with the ability to migrate all of the companies applications, application data, user data and operating system.
“We achieved a very smooth migration, 2.400 machines, 1,100 applications, we have the same look and feel as we did before and we did all this in only 3 weeks.”
ADAC e.V., Europe’s Largest Automobile Insurance Association Completes Desktop Migration. With VMware Mirage it migrated 2,400 existing desktop PCs, including user installed applications, files, and profiles to new laptops in a time constrained, three week timeframe.
“With Mirage we had exactly the same IT environment on the PC, but were able to migrate over everything that made that desktop personal to our users... IT was able to separate the IT images on the desktop PCs from the user space — applications, files, and personalization. ”
VMware Infrastructure Cut Costs and Reduced Hardware Upgrade Time
"With server sprawl pushing our data center to its limits, we needed to implement a scalable platform that would constrain hardware growth and reduce costs. VMware has provided this while enhancing our disaster recovery capabilities."
ADP Dealer Services needed a highly productive development environment that could spawn creativity amongst its two thousand software engineers, hardware engineers, and developers while providing a secure internal infrastructure. Using VMware server and desktop virtualization solutions, the company built a research and development environment using network segmentation, VMware vCenter: Lab Manager, and VMware View.
The company sought an end-user computing (EUC) solution from VMware to enable quick provisioning and de-provisioning of development environments. The ADP Dealer Services team chose VMware View for global deployment. With the View client, the developers access their remote workstations, either locally or remotely. The remote View workstation securely interacts with any ADP application from anywhere. The company has realized two great benefits – the ability for each administrator to manage 300-400 workstations, and the ability of the team to create and deploy workstations exceedingly fast, up to 50 or 60 a day.
"To give our team a space where they could be creative - where they could have a lot of flexibility in their personal compute - we started rolling out View.
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