VMware Infrastructure 3 And VMware Site Recovery Manager Create An IT Environment That Is More Manageable, Available, And Recoverable
“VMware Site Recovery Manager makes managing and testing our recovery plans as easy as pushing a button. The fact that we can run tests as often as we want gives us a high degree of confidence in the recoverability of our systems.”
Centrally Manage Desktops And Provide Users With Desktop Access Anytime, Anywhere, On Demand
“AGAR prides itself on using the best technology available to service our customers as well as separate us from our competitors. VMware View has enabled us to improve user productivity by increasing the availability of our desktops. In addition, it has enhanced network security, simplified management and lowered costs. We are thrilled with the product and highly recommend VMware View to businesses of all sizes."
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)
Deploy VMware virtualization to allocate
server resources to applications and services
as required while lowering costs and
improving return on hardware investment.
“To support our team’s work
testing, developing and releasing
into production applications that
support our scientific and business
goals, we deployed a virtualized
infrastructure that removed the
need to wait weeks to acquire new
physical servers.”
Zimbra Collaboration Suite is used by over 3000 Agora users, employees mail boxes size increased 10x – at the same time, per mailbox maintenance and management costs decreased several times, optimized operation cost of the entire e-mail environment.
“Zimbra proved to be a very efficient system. The system is also very simple in operation – the number of helpdesk requests was decreased and we are able to solve reported problems very fast and very easily.”
— Krzysztof Madejski, Deputy Director, IT Division, Agora SA
“Using VMware and Intel technology to virtualize our data center
has been a huge success. We’re increasing our CPU utilization, decreasing our power and cooling costs, and using fewer staff hours to manage our IT infrastructure.”
Aledo ISD Controls Expansion Costs, Delivers High-Quality Education through Desktop, Datacenter Virtualization. Cost Savings Return Vital Funds to School Coffers
“The more money we can save on the IT side, the more money goes into educating these kids. That’s why we’re here. VMware datacenter and desktop virtualization solutions enable us to slash costs, accommodate district growth, and deliver outstanding customer service to students, faculty and administrators—all without increasing the size of our IT staff.”
Challenges: Multi-site private cloud for SAP systems and many other services. Expansion of an attractive cloud-based service portfolio. Solution: SAP systems running in vCloud. Managed Mail as SaaS. IaaS and SaaS on pay-per-use basis using Chargeback. Results: Higher availability and shorter maintenance windows on SAP systems. New flexible services such as Managed Mail. IaaS offers for customers. Further reduction in resource usage. Attractive pay-per-use billing models.
“For All for One Steeb, vCloud is the best way to continuously improve service quality while also offering attractive SaaS and IaaS plans to our medium-sized business customers. This led us to select an end-to-end private cloud infrastructure in our data centers.”
— Dr. Thorsten Hackfort, Head of Managed Services, All for One Steeb
“We did a proof-of-concept on
VMware View and it was very
well received. Our users said
VMware was much more user friendly
than other desktop
virtualization technologies,
and their positive feedback
was a key reason for choosing
VMware.” - Luc Derix
Chief Information Officer
Allianz Global Assistance
— Luc Derix , Chief Information Officer, Allianz Global Assistance
VMware Technology Creates A Virtual Infrastructure That Simplifies IT Administration And Increases Availability And Redundancy Of Core Applications
“Like most companies, we started with virtualization as a way to
eliminate server sprawl and get better utilization out of our servers. Now, our VMware and Intel based virtualization solution is playing a serious role in our disaster recovery discussions.”
The University of Bologna has chosen VMware to create state-of-the-art teaching laboratories equipped with Samsung ThinClient, with ThinApp and VMware View 5 based on Cloud infrastructure managed by vSphere 5
"At the software selection stage we looked at Citrix and other open-source offers, but the VMware solution turned out to be the best in terms of cost, efficiency and simplicity of infrastructure."
— Alessandro Cantelli, Manager of the University-CeSIA (SeRTA) Technical Relations Sector and Manager of the CESIA-Based Systems and Software Management Sector of the Alma Mater Studiorum Computer Services Center
VMware Professional Services Provided Product Expertise, Hands-On Assistance And Technical Knowledge To Help Alstom Upgrade To vSphere 4 Quickly, Around The Globe
“With VMware vSphere, our IT organization is now delivering a
much higher level of service to the entire global enterprise – and we wouldn’t have gotten to this point so quickly or efficiently if it hadn’t been for VMware Professional Services.”
— Rob Jones, Director of Technology for Northern Europe
Implemented VMware Virtualization To Enable The Business To Cut Costs, Improve Resource Usage, Reduce Provisioning Time, Lessen The Administration Load And Ensure Business Continuity For Critical Applications.
"VMware is the leader in the virtualization space today and that is one of the reasons why we decided to align ourselves with the company.”
Business Agility Becomes Reality at American Tire Distributors
With Help from House of Brick, Oracle E-Business Suite Application and Oracle RAC Now Run Under VMware for Dynamic Scaling of Enterprise Applications
“VMware technology helps us, as a business, support business growth. It has helped us evolve our IT infrastructure so that we can provide more dynamic computing. It has also enabled us to truly ‘think outside the box’ and find ways to deliver computing resources that drive the most value to our company’s bottom line.”
Amway Uses VMware Infrastructure To Consolidate Hosts While Improving The Reliability And Manageability Of Its Technology Infrastructure, Both At Its Headquarters And Remote Offices Worldwide
“Besides server consolidation, I think the biggest advantage we get from VMware technology is in the area of disaster recovery. About two years ago we made a strategic decision to virtualize everything on our disaster-recovery source list, for instance, Tier 1 applications like EMC Documentum. We’ve identified virtualization as the key enabler to protect our most important applications.”
VMware View with PCoIP Protocol Enables Amway to Aggregate Americas Operations for Economies of Scale
End Users in Costa Rica Gain High-Performance Access to Michigan Datacenter over WAN
“VMware View with PCoIP protocol delivers a LAN-like end-user experience to employees in Costa Rica accessing datacenter resources in Michigan.”
The financial services industry is a fast-moving and highly competitive market where
things can change in an instant and gaining ‘first-mover’ advantage can often be
crucial. Being aware of sudden movements in the market, and having the ability to
react accordingly are therefore two of the biggest challenges facing financial sector
organisations today. For this major multi-national financial services organisation dealing
with corporate, private and retail investments and holding many thousands of portfolios,
ensuring it has both access to real-time data and a scalable, flexible and reliable IT
infrastructure are paramount.
“VMware vFabric GemFire has dramatically improved the speed with which we can react to changing market conditions. We can now manage risk in real-time, and run calculations 60 times faster than ever before - all of which has made a major impact on our business.”
Government Organization Boosts Safety Development Efforts with Innovative Test and Development Datacenter
“The VMware vCloud Director infrastructure we’ve designed for our test and development datacenter lets us automate provisioning to create secure replicas of our production systems for use by our development engineers. It truly demonstrates that the future is today.”
Aprimo maintains competitive edge by providing
customers SaaS options.
Cloud platform enables right-sized environment to meet customer demand; flexibility offers first-to-market potential for products; delivering services to a larger customer base with relatively less substantial costs.
“VMware makes it incredibly easy to implement a cloud environment and gives us a competitive advantage.”
Area9, a vCloud Powered VSPP Partner, describes how VMware enables enterprise-class business solutions to their customers including CoreStaff and the remote-area Bawinanga Aboriginal Community.
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