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Anonymous Financial Institution UK
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.”
Case Study (PDF) EnglishAviva
Insurance Giant Discovers A Unique And Trusted Partnership With Their VMware Technical Account Manager (TAM)
“Our TAM is absolutely essential to our success. He constantly delivers technical expertise, experience we couldn’t get anywhere else and a long-term vision for our infrastructure. Those skills, along with empathy and honesty, make him a trusted and valuable part of our team.”
Bolton College
“VMware View and ThinApp virtual desktop infrastructure is not only easy to manage and cost-effective to scale, it has also freed up our IT team to focus its time on improving the end user experience rather than on constant firefighting. The opportunities View has opened up far more flexible ways of working not only improves the experience for staff and students, but also gives us a real competitive advantage in attracting new students to the College.”
Cats Protection
VMware vSphere 4 Enables IT Departments To Cut Down On Hardware Cost And Rack Space, Consolidate Server Estate And Provide High Availability For Applications; All While Providing A Future-Proof Environment For Cost Effective Business Growth
“Virtualizing our server environment has transformed the way we approach IT and given us a foundation on which we can continue to develop over the coming years. Virtualizing over 90% of our server estate has delivered cost savings and reduced carbon emissions, enhanced business continuity capabilities and much more. Perhaps most importantly of all, server virtualization has made the IT department more proactive, efficient and strategic. We spend less time on day to day maintenance tasks and more time working on projects that will help support the organisation as it continues to grow and develop.”
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.”
Intela
Intela Keeps Consumers Engaged by Ensuring Online Performance with VMware vFabric tc Server. Intela is a performance-based lead generation and email marketing company based in London with its operational center in Boulder, Colorado.
“Setting up and bringing down server instances is easier with tc Server … and that increases our productivity.”
J&H Bunn Ltd
VMware vSphere Dramatically Reduces Capital And Operating Costs And Maximizes IT Efficiency
“VMware has helped our organisation to leave our limited physical IT infrastructure behind and build a system which is over 80% virtualized, is almost infinitely scalable and to which we have trusted our most business critical applications. Our business continuity capabilities have improved, our power consumption has been dramatically reduced but, most satisfying of all, is the ease with which our IT environment can now be managed. Time has been freed up for me to concentrate on delivering new IT projects which will help our company grow.”
JSR
“Virtualizing all our applications has provided us with a great foundation to expand our operations into the cloud and has given us a competitive edge by being able to offer our farming software as-a-service to our customers. Our old infrastructure was creaking at the seams, but we have now built a stable, reliable and highly scalable infrastructure that will stand the test of time.”
Land Securities
“The savings we’ve made have been impressive and immediate, including over £200,000 in hardware in the first year alone. We’re able to provision extra capacity very quickly and we’ve doubled the lifespan of our existing hardware and achieved a major reduction in downtime. The transition to a virtual desktop model has not only reduced hardware and management costs, but we have delighted our users with the significantly improved quality of the IT service we now deliver to them.”
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust virtualized 90 percent of its IT estate within a year when it achieved a 12 to 1 server consolidation ratio, avoiding £300,000 in extra server investment.
“Virtualizing with VMware has made us far more agile as an organization. We’re able to develop and deliver new services more quickly than ever before, which ultimately makes a huge difference to our patient care. Virtualization has also been the foundation for our move to a new cloud infrastructure through which we will deliver IT services to our own users and have the capability to provide similar services to other NHS trusts. With cost savings the number one priority for the public sector today, VMware has already helped us achieve huge reductions across the board in our organisation including a 75 per cent savings in power costs.”
London Borough of Hillingdon
We chose VMware for the maturity and breadth of its products and its market leading position.
“Virtualizing with VMware has placed IT right at the forefront of driving the Council’s business transformation objectives. Not only do we have the flexibility to deploy new services more quickly and effectively than ever before, but IT is now seen as an enabler for delivering savings and efficiencies across the Council in line with the demands of the Comprehensive Spending Review. Thanks to VMware, the IT department now spends about 80% of its time on the innovative, strategic projects that help make a real difference to the Council, and 20% on the standard ‘keeping the lights on’ activity, a complete reversal of where we were on our old infrastructure.”
Major Telecommunications Provider
Major Telecom Provider Uses Virtualization To Give Customers Greater Flexibility And Lower Costs in Outsourced Datacenters
“Working with VMware Professional Services has definitely been one of the most rewarding projects I’ve completed in my 23 years in IT.”
New College Durham
VMware offers the most mature, easy-to-use and feature packed on the market and the best fit for our needs
“We did not really consider anyone else other than VMware. The benefits of a single, integrated virtualization platform from the datacenter to the desktop were compelling.”
Newcastle College Group
“VMware View has transformed our IT infrastructure and given us the control and centralized management capabilities we needed following a number of mergers and acquisitions. We now have a reliable, secure and resilient IT infrastructure in place which provides our end users with the flexibility they need to work wherever they work best. What could have been a time intensive, expensive, IT integration project has proved quick, pain free and, most importantly of all, has proved great value for money. Not only does our IT team now have a lot more time to concentrate on strategic projects to help drive the business forward, rather than worrying about maintenance issues, but we’ve actually saved ourselves over £7 million which is quite staggering.”
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.”
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)
With the aim of delivering a highly available, fully resilient infrastructure at the heart of its requirements, SEPA decided to virtualize their entire infrastructure along with VMware’s SRM to ensure 100% uptime.
”We simply can’t afford to have an IT system that could go down and leave the public exposed to natural disasters without warning. Virtualizing with VMware was the best way for us to ensure all our systems were kept up and running at all times. Since virtualizing, we’ve had 100% uptime across all our applications”
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.”
Threadneedle
“Working with VMware has made us a more agile business and given us the capability to react and adapt to our changing business needs. We have made huge savings across our IT estate in terms of cost avoidance and achieved ROI in a very short space of time. VMware’s server and desktop virtualization solutions have enhanced the performance and availability of our key business applications and our business continuity and disaster recovery plans and processes have been transformed. VMware will continue to play a crucial role in delivering strategic solutions to areas critical to the development of our business.”
