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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.”
Case Study (pdf)A Large American Retail Chain
VMware Technology Allows Companies To Transform Their Physical IT Assets Into A Virtual Infrastructure That Simplifies IT Administration
“Now that we have VMware technology, our servers pretty much manage themselves. That’s a far cry from how it was before.”
A Large American University
VMware Infrastructure 3 Provides A Platform For Creating A Scalable And Flexible Virtual Infrastructure That Reduces Costs And Eases Administration
“VMware technology has played a critical role in helping us modernize our central IT environment. VMware is creating a true partnership that isn’t just about selling licenses—it’s about giving us what we need to be successful in our goals.”
A Large Government Research Agency
VMware Technology Creates A Virtual Platform That Allows More Efficient Delivery Of IT Services
“We now spend more time asking ourselves ‘What do our scientists need to be more effective at their jobs?’ and less time worrying about keeping our infrastructure up and running.”
A Large Property & Casualty Insurance Organization
VMware Technology Provides Flexibility For Growth, Improves Business Responsiveness, And Strengthens Business Continuity
“Our VMware deployment has totally changed thinking within our organization on how to be more agile and deliver IT services more efficiently. That’s on top of just making things a whole lot easier.”
A Major Oil Sands Mining Company
And almost without exception, these analyses show that virtualizing with VMware technology is the smartest option.
“From our perspective, having a VMware environment as an IT standard delivers significant business value to our organization. VMware virtualization technology delivers excellent flexibility in meeting our customers’ needs as well as considerable cost savings, which helps us meet our overall company’s business objectives.”
Abacus International Pte Ltd
Abacus International Cuts Server Costs as First Singapore-Based Firm to Implement VMware Virtual Infrastructure Software
“As a forward-looking company, we constantly seek out innovative solutions and take bold steps to revolutionize the way we work. Innovation is VMware’s hallmark and their software gives us an added competitive edge. With a full VMware virtual infrastructure in place, we can now match the right virtualization tool to the required application performance. This flexible and nimble approach helps us maintain our leadership in a competitive marketplace and meet our present and future business needs. We view VMware as a long term strategic partner.”
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.”
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.”
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."
Adventist Health System Information Services
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.”
AGAR Supply
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.”
Agricultural Bank of China, Guizhou Branch
VMware's ESX Server Helped The Guizhou Branch Of Agricultural Bank Of China To Centralize Management And Provision Their Application Servers Without Increasing Capital Costs. Maintenance Of And Upgrades For The Front-Counter Systems Have Been Handed Over From Local Branches To The Guizhou Province Branch. The Results Are Improved Server Applications Integration And Increased Server Utilization, Reduced The Number Of Technical Supporting Staff, Saved Data Center Space, And Improved Customer Satisfaction.
"VMware's virtualization technology has enabled us to centralize the upgrading and maintenance of our front-counter systems from local branches to the province headquarters as well as consolidate our servers and significantly streamline management tasks. The result is quick system upgrades and maintenance, reduced data center space and substantial power and cooling cost reduction, all of which have helped us achieve our goals."
AICPA
The Numbers Look Good To AICPA
“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 Independent School District (ISD)
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.”
Allied Electronics
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.”
Alstom
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.”
Amadeus Asia Ltd
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.”
American Tire Distributors
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.”
