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Ontario Montclair School District
With Virtualization Plus Mobile, Every Ontario- Montclair Student Now has Access to Computers. Cost-Effectiveness, Manageability of VMware View Enables Sustainable Technology Foundation
“We selected VMware View technology because we believe it maximizes our ability to impact our students’ educational experience in several ways. It starts with our teachers. Our virtualized desktop environment gives our teachers a dependable, consistent technology so they can foster collaborative learning. VMware View also allowed us to get more laptops into children’s hands, and to give them more high-quality, instructional time with their computers. We know we are now doinga better job advancing our students andpreparing them for high school.”
Case Study (PDF)Orbis Financial
VMware Virtualization Provides A Robust, Highly Available, Secure Infrastructure That Ensures Orbis Financial’s Systems Meet Stringent Requirements For Reliability And Performance And Can Be Marketed As An Asset To Investors.
“Implementing an infrastructure based on VMware virtualization has enabled us to project ourselves as a competitive service provider in the custodial market in India, by allowing us to meet the desired expectations of our clients under dynamic market conditions.”
Ottawa International Airport
Ottawa International Blazes New Trails in Virtualization Journey New Technology for a New Airport
“VMware is the mission-critical system that runs our mission-critical systems.”
Overlake Hospital Medical Center
Overlake’s data center was old and in rough shape, with significant air-conditioning issues and even water leaks. Wolfgram used the data-center migration and upgrade as an opportunity to accelerate the hospital’s transition to virtualization
“Many of the users experienced a big increase in performance because their desktop workstations were so old—so a lot of administrative users are really happy with the virtual desktops. The other big satisfier is that the desktop is now available to them just like in the office wherever they are.”
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
VMware Professional Services and ISV Alliance teams help a healthcare technology leader virtualize to control datacenter growth, deliver $3+ million ROI in just 3 years, and deliver High Availability in Tier 1 clinical applications—without missing a beat.
“Application vendors understand that this has become a standard for datacenters and it’s in their best interests if they want to stay competitive to support virtualization.”
ParetoLogic Inc.
Robust Server Virtualization with VMware Allows ParetoLogic to Build a Sustainable Expansion Strategy, Deliver Seamless Service to Customers
“We need an infrastructure that is robust, cost-effective and error-proof. Virtualizing with VMware gives us all that, and allows us room to keep growing.”
PCMS
PCMS VISION BeanStore Delivers Retail Point-of- Sale Services Conveniently to Customers with VMware Virtualization
“PCMS chose VMware virtualization technologies as an optimal platform to make it easy and efficient to provide centralized POS services to retail customers conveniently in a manner that is agile, and one that can be managed effectively.”
Peninsula Regional Medical Center
Peninsula Regional Medical Center Achieves IT Innovation Through VMware Virtualization
“With VMware virtualization, we have better uptime, and our infrastructure is easier to maintain. And adopting a ‘virtualization first’ policy has allowed us to avoid having to expand our datacenter—an expansion that would have cost an unimaginable amount of money that we’d rather invest in our clinical systems and facilities.”
Penn Virginia Corporation
Mid-Cap Oil and Gas Company Leverages Cloud Technology to Enable SAP Upgrade
“The key advantages [to virtualization and cloud computing] are the ability to deploy computing environments quickly, at an overall lower server cost, and with reduced technical support spend. We were very happy that Texperts and VMware were able to combine their cloud technology and services solutions as a cost effective technology to meet our project upgrade needs. It was a key factor in the success of our project.”
Peoples Bancorp Inc.
Peoples Bancorp Virtualizes Business-Critical Systems to Improve Application Availability, Reduce IT Costs and Streamline Backup
“Virtualizing mission-critical applications has enabled our IT organization to become more responsive to all of our lines of business. Even more important, it has improved the uptime of applications that impact our customers.”
Perfetti Van Melle India
VMware server virtualization freed server capacity to support longer-term growth, minimized the maintenance task and enabled resources to be allocated to applications as needed.
“Implementing VMware has enabled us to move from running large, geographically-distributed, power-hungry servers that could not meet our longer-term business requirements to a centralized, scalable datacenter infrastructure that can easily be accommodated and maintained.”
PGNiG
“Na pewnym etapie rozwoju teleinformatycznego naszej firmy w serwerowniach zaczęło brakować miejsca. Coraz bardziej doskwierał nam również problem energetyczny, dlatego postanowiliśmy skorzystać z doświadczenia VMware i używając jego produktów przygotować środowisko wirtualne. Pomysł sprawdził się na tyle, że obecnie jesteśmy w trakcie kolejnego etapu, tym razem wirtualizacji desktopów.”
PGNiG
Working with a Technical Account Manager reduces turnaround times for virtualization projects and delivers cost savings by eliminating the risk of poor investment decisions.
“With the VMware TAM service, we have been able to streamline the operation of our virtual infrastructure, and establish long-term plans for its development. Our Technical Account Manager has expertise and experience which are difficult to find elsewhere, and has been a valuable and trusted partner to us.”
Pinellas County Utilities
Virtualizing critical Wonderware automation solutions with confidence
“Keeping the water on is a public health and safety issue. We can’t tolerate any downtime. ... Replacing clustered failover systems with ftServers saved us a lot of money and simplified the entire operation. I’ve never looked back.”
Powerhouse Museum
By Deploying Vmware Infrastructure 3 And Migrating To Vmware Vsphere 4 With A Higher-Capacity SAN, The Museum Has Enhanced The Recoverability Of Systems And Information, Optimized Server Hardware Utilization, Ensured Access To Resources To Support New Applications And Boosted Its Services.
“VMware vSphere 4 has enabled us to reduce our power requirements by 33 percent and provided us with a platform to extend our web services beyond the Powerhouse Museum, building on benefits such as the A$200,000 reduction in hardware procurement costs that we achieved with VMware Infrastructure 3.”
PowerSeraya
Powerseraya Turned To VMware To Deliver An Agile Data Center With A Reduced Green Footprint.
"We were able to achieve a similar outcome using VMware virtualization as we would had we deployed physical servers. As a result, we reduced our capital expenditure by more than half the level required had we implemented the same infrastructure using physical servers."
Prairie North Health Region
With Virtualization, Prairie North IT Delivers Cost Savings, Improved Services
“As Canada’s health regions seek to improve patient care while also controlling costs, virtualization technology is emerging as a critical IT strategy. Here at Prairie North, we’ve proven that VMware vSphere virtualization for servers, and now VMware View virtualization for desktops, can form the basis of a best-practices model to support a standardized and manageable IT infrastructure that is less costly to maintain, and improves the delivery of IT services to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff.”
Pronto Software
VMware Infrastructure Enables Physical Hardware Consolidation To Cut Power, Cooling And Real Estate Costs While Enhancing Manageability And Responsiveness To Business Unit Requirements
"We found that our infrastructure was coming under strain and if we did not virtualize, we would have had to upgrade power, airconditioning and rack space, and increase real estate at our primary datacenter. We issued a request for proposal and received a plan from RDA Group that leveraged the functionality and performance of VMware virtualization to deliver a scalable, fault-tolerant, dynamic infrastructure."
QUAD
QUAD’s Hyderabad datacentre now has two HP ProLiant 380 servers that host 10 virtual servers through VMware vSphere Advanced Edition. Storage is provided by an HP FC SAN with 3.2TB in RAID-5 configuration. Business critical SAP servers, Lotus Notes, file servers and in-house applications have been migrated to the virtual environment. Sunil notes that VMware’s vMotion, Fault Tolerance and High Availability features are invaluable in contributing to QUAD’s 100% uptime for their IT infrastructure. vMotion provides quick, seamless and efficient live migration for virtual servers. Fault Tolerance and HA minimize potential downtime from server and operating system failures. Additionally, VMware Consolidated Backup has enabled QUAD’s IT team to implement a centralized backup strategy with minimal impact on users or application availability.
“In the two years since virtualization we have not faced a single instance of unplanned downtime."
Quebecor
Printing Company Spreads the Word About Virtualization’s Merits
“Using VMware software on our Intel processors with Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled has allowed us to get excellent performance out of our virtual machines!”
