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Australian Hearing
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.”
Case Study (PDF)ABB Grain Ltd
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.”
Adelaide Brighton Ltd.
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."
Allianz Global Assistance
Allianz Global Assistance
“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
Area9
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.
Ausclad Group
Less Servers Means More Room To Grow For Ausclad Group
“Our goal was to stick with best-of-breed wherever possible, and that’s why we wanted VMware Infrastructure 3 to run on top of an Intel architecture. Intel is very reliable, and reliability counts for a lot in the IT world.”
Austech Institute For Further Education (AIFE)
VMware Datacenter And Desktop Virtualization Enables Deployment Of Multiple Virtual Machines On Fewer Physical Servers While VMware View Enables Management Of Desktops From A Single Location Within The Datacenter.
"Deploying VMware has enabled us to extend our virtualized desktop environment to a new Brisbane campus with only a minimal increase in management load, while our datacenter infrastructure can now comfortably support our projected growth in demand."
Australian Bureau of Statistics
VMware Virtualization Reduces Datacenter Costs While Enhancing Manageability And Performance.
“Deploying VMware has enabled us to eliminate the two-month delays that our business clients often experienced before gaining access to a piece of testing hardware, while ensuring we can optimize performance for databases and applications.”
Australian Catholic University
VMware virtualization has enabled ACU to consolidate its physical server fleet, reducing costs and improving manageability. ACU also gained a platform on which to build its cloud computing capability.
“VMware has given us a lot of flexibility and the confidence that we can move to our disaster recovery environment when we need to. We have also saved on time, effort, procurement and energy costs and can now quickly deploy new virtual servers to meet our business needs.”
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
VMware Infrastructure Delivers Cost-Effective Server Consolidation, Real-Time Backup, Strong Redundancy and High Availability
“This virtual environment has enabled us to constrain costs while delivering our applications reliably. We are now keen to explore the potential of desktop virtualization and plan to undertake some prototyping towards the end of the year.”
Brisbane City
Server Consolidation Yields More Than Just Cost Savings for Growing Australian City
“We’re extremely happy with how VMware ESX Server performs. We’re now moving to a two-step process to put the consolidated servers into production.”
Camberwell Grammar School
VMware View enables Camberwell Grammar School to centralize its desktop management, reducing the time required to upgrade applications and deploy new ones
“VMware View has greatly reduced the time required to make new or upgraded applications accessible to students and staff.”
Care Connect
VMware Infrastructure 3 Reduces Hardware Costs, Eases The Management Task, Improves Hardware Resource Utilization And Ensures Availability.
“VMware Infrastructure 3 has really impressed our staff with its ability to deliver full availability and reduce our hardware and facilities requirements. As we are housed in a co-located datacenter in Melbourne, this keeps our costs low and enables us to direct our funds to helping our clients. We are now testing VMware vSphere 4 with a view to securing even greater benefits.”
CBH Group
VMware Infrastructure Delivers A Dynamic, Flexible, Cost-Effective Solution That Eliminates The Need For Costly Datacenter Upgrades And Scales To Support Growth
“If you are looking at virtualization, VMware is number one on the list of products you should consider. Our experience has been so positive we are looking at virtualizing other areas of our infrastructure. VMware has been a real success story at the CBH Group and there are no regrets about the path we have taken.”
Challenger
Implementing a dual-cluster VMware infrastructure at less than one-third the cost of a physical disaster recovery environment enabled Challenger Limited to cut recovery time objectives from 24 hours to less than 4 hours and recovery point objectives from 24 hours to less than 90 minutes.
"Implementing VMware has enabled us to slash our recovery time and recovery point objectives, ensuring core applications and critical information are quickly recoverable in the event of a datacenter disaster."
City of Boroondara
VMware Infrastructure Enabled The Council To Run Multiple Virtual Machines Across Fewer Physical Hosts, Reducing Hardware Requirements And Consequently Environmental Footprint And Maintenance Loads
"If we still had our complete physical infrastructure, the datacenter we are moving into would have been too small to cope. Now we can fit our infrastructure into a center half the size of our previous facility, with plenty of headroom for ourselves and enough capacity overall to enable us to host another council’s disaster recovery environment."
City of Cockburn
VMware virtualization enables the City of Cockburn to centralize management and administration while reducing capital and operating expenses and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
“Deploying VMware virtualization has enabled us to reduce our total cost of ownership and limit our desktop risks while maintaining user service levels within our buildings and improving remote access.”
City Of Marion
A VMware Virtualization Project Delivered Through Datacom Enabled The City Of Marion To Ensure ROI Within Four Years While Delivering A Manageable, Responsive Infrastructure.
"We are able to run the whole of our production environment on any of our three production and disaster recovery hosts, and VMotion allows us to migrate running virtual machines from one host to another without interrupting user service."
Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers
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.”
Corporate Express
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”
