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ACP IT Solutions AG
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.”
Case Study (PDF) EnglishAnonymous Food Safety Agency
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.”
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.
Charles River Labs virtualized business critical help desk application that typically handles 100-200 tickets per day. First application to prove concept of public cloud deployment of business critical applications. Business impact was mainly for Capex reduction: capping internal datacenter spending and to deploy new systems on the public cloud & migrate others over the next few years. Able to co-exist with existing VMware environment and taking existing apps to public cloud without re-writing.
“I see Cloud being key to our overall strategy moving forward. The days of us investing heavily all of our capital into building hardware and infrastructure are past now. With the options that are available now from cloud partners, they bring agility, flexibility and in some case cost savings as well, for using that model.”
Dublin Bay Power
VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency while VMware Site Recover Manager improves business continuity. VMware vCloud Director enables the creation of secure private clouds
“Our plant produces 10% of the power in the Irish National Grid and it is therefore of utmost importance that we have a highly available IT infrastructure in place. Thanks to VMware we have now built a scalable, highly available and easy to manage IT environment that will stand the test of time and meet our business SLAs. Having used VMware vCloud Director to build our private cloud, we’re confident we are set to integrate public cloud services in the future and realise all the benefits the hybrid cloud model has to offer.”
Ducati
In this extended edition of their introduction video during the VMware 2011 keynote presentation in Copenhagen, Ducati provides additional description on how levering VMware technology has helped their IT out-perform their larger competitors.
“VMware has never failed us. We have grown in terms of demands and requirements, and VMware has grown in capabilities and ability to support us.”
Ducati
Ducati describes how levering VMware technology has helped their IT out-perform their larger competitors. Video from the 10/20/2011 Keynote at VMworld in Copenhagen.
“VMware has never failed us. We have grown in terms of demands and requirements, and VMware has grown in capabilities and ability to support us.”
Experian
Experian demands constant innovation and nimble response to markets to maintain its profi tability and competitive edge. Its IT infrastructure team must support its developers’ eff orts to meet the business’ aggressive time-to-market requirements. A cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service model for Experian’s test and development environments will allow developers to quickly and fl exibly self-provision IT resources when they need them. Business Impact were: Provisioning times, already slashed from weeks to days through virtualization, now further cut to minutes; Developers can more easily collaborate; business units can leverage IT builds from other lines of business; Private cloud and VMware vShield security functionality ensure IT resources are controlled
“VMware vCloud technology will allow Experian to offer an internal, selfservice cloud to our development organization, leading to faster project turnaround and better levels of IT service.”
Fortrust
Discover how FORTRUST’s search for a VMware-based cloud solution led to PeakColo whose White Label Infrastructure-as-a-Service is based on VMware vCloud™ Powered infrastructure.
“Many FORTRUST customers also have VMware-based virtual clusters on premise that they want to extend out into the cloud. From a hybrid-cloud/colocation perspective, VMware technology provides natural synergy.”
FRITZ & MACZIOL
Schnelle Bereitstellung und transparente Abrechnung der IT-Ressourcen in der Cloud
“Um von allen Vorteilen einer privaten Cloud-Umgebung zu profitieren, war eine Projektumsetzung mit dem VMware vCloud Director die erste Wahl. Damit sind wir in der Lage, den jeweiligen Unternehmensbereichen sehr schnell isolierte virtuelle Rechenzentren zur Verfügung zu stellen.”
Groupe Adeo - Adeo Services
VMware vCloud Director supporting the deployement of a private cloud infrastructure de Cloud offering IAAS services
“With VMware vCloud Director, we now have a private Cloud infrastructure which enables us to provide our developers with test environments and pre-equipped development much quicker than before. The provisioning time of our IaaS services has been reduced from 2 weeks to less than 1 hour!”
managedhosting.de GmbH
Challenge • Automate provisioning • Faster provisioning of infrastructure and platforms (PaaS/IaaS) at guaranteed service level Solution • vCloud Director
"It's critical that we provide our customers with complex virtualized infrastructures very quickly and with a guaranteed SLA. vCloud Director is an excellent tool for this."
National Democratic Institute
VMware vCloud Director Helps NDI Speed Technology Delivery Within Efforts that Support Democracy
“VMware vCloud Director helps us better serve our users, including those in developing countries. We can configure virtual servers, point to URLs, and fire up applications within a matter of minutes. It’s less costly for us and less time-consuming, and because it’s a virtualized deployment, the hosting costs are also low.”
NYSE Euronext
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, has launched a cloud services offering for the financial services industry, their Capital Markets Community Platform. Their industry-first community cloud platform is able to extend to clients of any size the opportunity to maximize their computing resources, while maintaining record low-latency transmissions and global market access with industry-standard security and platform reliability.
NYSE Euronext
From VMworld NYSE Euronext on hybrid cloud vision and strategy behind the capital markets community platform vertical cloud
NYSE Euronext
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext leveraged VMware virtualization technology to create the new Capital Markets Community Platform to respond to changes within the global capital markets industry.
“Today’s markets are both electronically fragmented and highly volatile. The stage is set for new, collaborative technologies that will allow our clients to achieve the business results they seek—whether that means capitalizing on current conditions or developing whole new products or markets.”
NYSE Technologies
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext leveraged VMware virtualization technology to create the new Capital Markets Community Platform to respond to changes within the global capital markets industry.
“Today’s markets are both electronically fragmented and highly volatile. The stage is set for new, collaborative technologies that will allow our clients to achieve the business results they seek—whether that means capitalizing on current conditions or developing whole new products or markets.”
Oxford University
Oxford University is one of the oldest universities in the world. Their Computing Service (OUCS) needed to administer a secure database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution to manage and share research data. VMware’s Hybrid Cloud has enabled OUCS to build a DBaaS that is shared by Oxford Colleges and other research universities. Hybrid Cloud was the only solution able to overcome security restrictions on datasets which require on-premise location. Increased data protection and improved service levels have enhanced their reputation in research excellence and now proven in production, DBaaS will now be offered as a service to all major UK research universities.
“Access to information is critical to maintain our position as the world’s top university and we needed a flexible, scalable infrastructure. After doing our own research, we decided a Hybrid Cloud as best suited to our requirements. The vCloud datacentre service combined with Colt’s pedigree in information delivery, was the natural choice for us.”
SEGA Europe Ltd.
Learn how SEGA Europe is standardizing its cloud infrastructure across its on-premises operations, as well as with a public cloud provider. The result is a managed and orchestrated hybrid environment to test and develop games, one that dynamically scales productively to the many performance requirements at hand.
"We're restructuring and redesigning the IT systems within SEGA to be more of a development operations team to provide a service to the developers and to the company."
SEGA Europe Ltd.
SEGA wanted to develop a secure on-line game delivery system to share game builds with external testing studios globally and ensure capacity to meet spikes in demand during game development lifecycle. VMware solution of hybrid cloud provided a secure environment to mirror builds from internal systems onto compatible external public cloud. The business impacts were: greater consistency and control of Q&A testing; and quicker time-to-market for new games & versions.
“We have large capacity fluctuation requirements to do our product testing. The Colt vCloud solution allows us to have a very flexible infrastructure, which scales with the up and down of our business without the CAPEX and management burdens we previously had.”
SEGA Europe Ltd.
Sega worked with VMware and COLT to create a hybrid cloud through which Sega could enjoy a secure environment to mirror builds from internal systems onto a compatible external public cloud. The business impacts were: greater consistency and control of Q&A testing; and quicker time-to-market for new games & versions.
“Moving to a VMware hybrid cloud infrastructure has enabled us to improve the efficiency of our testing processes, giving us more time to test our games and provide a higher quality product to our customers. The Colt vCloud solution allows us to manage our infrastructure availability and costs far more easily, allowing us to scale up capacity when needed and reduce when not, and operate in a far more cost efficient way.”
