Learn how VMware vCloud customers like Columbia Sportswear, Catholic Health Initiatives, MicroStrategy and ABM Industries are using VMware cloud management solutions to efficiently provision virtual machines, improve performance and reliability within their IT environment, comply with industry-specific standards such as HIPAA, and report accurately the costs of processing IT requests within the organization.
Cloudera ensures data availability and reliability with VMware vFabric Hyperic
Cloudera is a technology start-up that provides enterprise-level products and services to users of Apache Hadoop, the popular open source implementation of MapReduce, a tool designed for in-depth analysis of very large data sets.
“If we didn’t have a monitoring tool like Hyperic, our engineers would most likely be the ones to tell us when a machine is down and that would mean significant changes to our uptime. We would go from the 4-9s that we get with Hyperic to 2-9s or even 1-9, depending on how long it took our engineers to tell us about issues.”
CloudOne delivers IBM Rational development tools in the cloud using an elastic, highly scalable, and economical SaaS model, powered by VMware.
"At McDonald's we focus on what we do best - we are not in the IT business. We needed a Rational solution for development that was flexible and elastic; on that could manage the peak times, and the valleys where we do little development. By using CloudOne's Rational SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, we were able to easily adjust to varying demands; we didn't need to buy additional expensive tooling."
VMware virtualization enabled CMI FPE to provide a robust, resilient infrastructure to run business-critical applications such as SAP ECC6 while lowering costs and supporting growth.
“VMware vSphere 4 has enabled us to almost triple the performance of our SAP application and eliminate the performance degradation we experienced when a physical server in our SAP cluster failed.”
— Vijay Karayi, Director–Management Assurance, Quality Management Systems and Chief Information Officer
VMware View provides a desktop virtualization solution that delivers applications more effectively while simplifying administration and reducing costs
“When I came on board as CIO, desktop virtualization was one of the major projects that we needed to implement—and so far our use of VMware View has been very, very successful within our organization.”
“We were quick to recognize that Medical Grade ftServer systems offered the reliability, simple operation and VMware support necessary to underpin a private cloud model for EHRs.”
Columbia Sportswear Embarks on Disaster Recovery and SAP Virtualization Journey: Columbia reduced costs right away by running and supporting less physical hardware. With fewer machines to power, run and cool, energy and operational costs declined, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings.
“It’s the inherent ability for us to scale resources rapidly, on-demand, that VMware provides us. We don’t have that any other way.”
— Michael Leeper, Senior Manager of IT Engineering
Columbia Sportswear discusses their VMware cloud journey highlighting their IT transformation to support their business needs.
“Columbia believes that VMware is the best technology for us and it will allow us to grow and scale our business at the speed that we determine we need to.”
— Michael Leeper, Director of Global Technology, Columbia Sportswear
Global CRM, ERP Software IT Department Supports R&D Teams, Delivers SaaS Through VMware Technology, BlueLock Virtual Datacenters
“Consona’s need to be flexible and nimble is immense. VMware technology and BlueLock Virtual Datacenters in the public cloud enable fast deployment, management ease, and the ability to expand and shrink capacity as needed.”
— Kristen Hayes, Director of Global Infrastructure
“With Hyperic, we expected to deploy a robust, easy to use management solution capable of scaling on demand. What we got was all that and more. When you are in as highly competitive a space as we are in, the ability to add additional value to your customers can make or break a company. Hyperic enables us to be smarter about how our customers are using their applications so that we can help them make smarter business decisions.”
Cooper Grace Ward Partners with VMware to Deliver Flexible Working
“VMware View underpins our new ‘flexible device policy’, which provides the
firm’s team members with more options when choosing when and where to
work.”
— Jason Mills, IT Manager, Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers
Cornerstone Community Bank chose VMware for its server virtualization and need for High Availability. Since using VMware the bank has experienced cost reduction in the purchase and maintenance of physical servers, and has implemented a disaster recovery plan that can be tailored to meet the ease-of-use but also scalability needs of a small IT staff.
“VMware is critical to our disaster recovery. It saves us many, many hours. At my previous place of employment, it took us about 12 to 14 hours to get a domain controller up in a disaster recovery test. With VMware, we're able to stand up our domain controller in about 4 hours.”
— Randy Dover, VP & Information Technology Officer
Corporate Express Improves
Availability and Manageability Using VMware ESX Server
“VMware virtual machines took the pain of managing hardware
off our hands; and virtual appliances can eliminate the pain of managing operating systems and application deployment.
Everyone is trying to do more with less and VMware software is helping us to do exactly that”
— Travers Nicholas , Infrastructure Services Manager
VMware virtualization has allowed
Corporate Express to improve the agility
and flexibility of its IT systems, and align
its technology closely with business
needs. It has also provided a powerful
reference for customers of its external IT
service delivery business unit.
“We have built an agile, dynamic infrastructure platform that supports our IT
team’s strategic approach to managing requests from our business units. We don’t have to go back and re-architect an environment every time because everything is virtualized.”
— Andrew Grech, Infrastructure and Operations Manager
VMware ESX and Virtual Center Infrastructure Enables Enterprise-Class Performance While Saving Space, Money, and Time
“The benefit to the
business is in the development and running of the systems. We can support our law enforcement agencies better and be more
agile in how we deliver our services.”
Deploying VMware Virtualization Has Enabled CS Energy To Achieve Near 100 Per Cent Availability, While The Additional Redundancy Provided By Tools That Move Running Virtual Machines Away From A Failing Host Provides Further Assurance To The Business.
“Implementing VMware virtualization has enabled us to deliver near 100 per cent availability and improved redundancy and performance of critical applications such as our SAP ECC6 enterprise resource planning system.”
VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3
Teaches Curtin University of Technology a Lesson in Data-Center Management
“The virtualized infrastructure
enabled by VMware Infrastructure 3 completely changes our approach to the data center, where we now see it as a pool of
resources that can be dynamically allocated according to the university’s needs. Near immediate server provisioning, support
for a range of operating systems and a smart DR plan has changed the nature of our data center.”
Cybage deployed a virtualized infrastructure in January 2011 leveraging VMware ESX running on IBM servers with NetApp FC SAN storage.
“The most important thing we’ve achieved through VMware is peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about provisioning new servers or making space for them in our datacenter, or worry about downtime when patching or
upgrading servers.”
Digital News Site Gains Uptime, Speed, Flexibility Through VMware-Based Cloud Solution from Virtacore
“We broke our application out into stacked vertical tiers and put it on the cloud platform for flexible allocation of resources that can scale quickly to meet user and business demands.”
Dalet Ensures Availability for Mission-Critical Customer Systems with VMware vFabric Hyperic.
Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media professionals to create, manage and distribute content to both traditional and new media channels, including interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks.
“The Dalet MAM is a mission-critical solution, and we need to monitor the entire system 24/7 … There is no way our customers can go off the air, so it is critical that we monitor all the components in real-time and use the information gained to react quickly when there are potential issues. Hyperic enables us to meet this requirement.”
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