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VMware Virtualization Delivered Nz$200,000 In Savings On An Infrastructure Refresh While Meeting Business Requirements And Reducing Environmental Impact
"We chose VMware because it offered a production-ready virtualization tool, whereas products from Xen and Microsoft had not been ‘real-world’ tested.”
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VMware Technology Creates A Virtual Environment That Maximizes CPU Utilization, Reverses Server Sprawl, Minimizes Energy Usage, And Reduces Carbon Footprint
“Perhaps the biggest thing VMware is allowing us to do is to extend the life of our data center by several years. The ability to increase server utilization, reclaim floor space, and decrease power usage has been immensely valuable.”
Revlon
In a short span of two years, the IT team had a profoundly positive effect on Revlon’s overall business picture, saving and avoiding more than $70.4 million dollars in expenditures. Revlon’s cloud today runs approximately 531 applications across the globe including Oracle in various flavors, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010, making more than 15,000 automated moves a month. This helps keep pace with Revlon’s ever-expanding and diversified business, which reaches markets across 100 countries and six continents.
Rockford Public Schools
RPS Engaged VMware And Data Strategy For Its IT Strategy And Realized Many Savings: Several Hours Each Time It Implemented New Applications, Physical Server Space By Consolidating Five Racks Of Servers To Two Racks, The Ability To Easily Monitor Their Systems And Remove Computer Viruses
“We used VMware on the server side and our experience with it was great – which persuaded us to try it for desktops. VMware partnered with us and met our most important consideration in choosing a partner - understanding our best interests as a school district. VMware has proven that it cares about the quality of its products and its implementation, which allows us to build a great working relationship.”
Saint Michael's College
Saint Michael’s College Deploys VMware vCenter SRM for Robust Recovery
“The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project is the most important thing we’ve done in technology in 10 years. In addition to providing the capability to run in the event of disaster, it’s moved us to a much more policy- and procedure driven technology environment.”
Santa Clara University School of Law
University Virtualizes to Simplify Server Management, Increase Agility in Offering New Services
“Our students need training that is not only academically rigorous, but also technologically advanced. Lawyers can’t practice today without using technology to research and manage their cases. With the virtual environment we’ve put in place using VMware, we can deliver a technology experience that truly helps prepare the future generation of lawyers.”
SAP Japan
SAP Japan Virtualized Its Internal Systems On VMware Infrastructure 3, With The Target Of Virtualizing 80 Percent Of All Servers Currently Operated By SAP Managed Services / Product System Services (PSS), Which Provides Demo Environments For Its Sales, Support, And Consulting Teams. The Virtualization Ratio Now Tops 50 Percent, And Key SAP Applications On The SAP Netweaver® Technology Platform, Such As SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP PLM, SAP SCM And SAP SRM, Are Operating On VMware Infrastructure And Utilized In Demos For Customer Support, Training, And Consultation Purposes.
“Before, it took anywhere from one day to one week to set up a new user environment. With the implementation of VMware Infrastructure, the setup now takes less than one hour, sometimes as little as 20 minutes. During weekends and nights when system traffic is limited, the VMware DPM is used to turn off the server power. This contributes to the promotion of ‘Green IT,’ one of our corporate management measures.”
School of Electronics and Info-Communications Technology - ITE College West
VMware virtualization has enabled the School of Electronics and Info-Communications Technology to deliver Microsoft SQL Server as the back end for several in-house applications, including the mission-critical student attendance system. It has also allowed students to learn about market-leading technologies and provided a platform to deliver virtual desktops.
“VMware has enabled us to achieve high availability for our operational servers such as SQL and web servers, and also allowed us to provision test environments at short notice.”
Seattle University
Learn how using VMware View allowed Seattle University to virtualize their legacy campus computer devices and provide remote desktop access to students, faculty, staff and alumni.
"We wanted to find a solution that didn't require us to stay on that three-year refresh cycle to keep up with student technologies and student application needs."
Servier Hungária Kft.
Az üzleti igények gyorsabb és rugalmasabb kiszolgálása, a szerverkörnyezet költséghatékonyabb működtetése, a hardver- és szoftverberuházási költségek csökkentése érdekében a Servier Hungária IT-menedzsere 2009-ben szervervirtualizációs és -konszolidációs projekt megvalósítását javasolta, amelyet a cég vezetői, az elérhető előnyöket értékelve, jóváhagytak.A VMware alapú virtualizált szerverkörnyezetben a Servier Hungária IT-csapata összehasonlíthatatlanul jobban gazdálkodhat az erőforrásokkal, dinamikusan és rugalmasan oszthatja el a terhelést, és a karbantartást is elvégezheti munkaidőben, a szolgáltatások szüneteltetése nélkül.
“Our VMware based virtual server environment is not just more flexible and cost-effective, but also a lot more reliable and stable than an infrastructure built on dedicated servers. For users who are not familiar with the concept of virtualization, this may sound like a contradition at first, but practice has clearly delivered proof of its viability.”
Shanghai Research Institute of China Telecom
VMware ESX Server's P2V, VMotion Tools And VirtualCenter Helped Shanghai Telecom Research Institute Speed Deployment Time And Improve Maintenance Of Their Testing Environment. Before Using VMware Building A Testing Environment For An Application System Used To Require Days, But Now It Takes Less Than An Hour, Significantly Reducing Labor Costs And Increasing Development Efficiency
"Through adopting this cutting-edge technology, we have now fully experienced the benefits of server virtualization. We now enjoy better server management, easier deployment of new applications, and higher work efficiency.”
Simplot Australia
The Answer Is Simple For Simplot Australia: Embrace Virtualization
"In some cases, we found that once we migrated machines to the VMware platform, they actually ran better virtually than they did on their old physical hardware platform. I think that says a lot about VMware solutions and their ability to really take advantage of Intel's latest processors."
SMOE
VMware vSphere 4 and VMware View 4 provide datacenter-to-the-desktop virtualization. This enables virtual machines to be provisioned quickly and cost-effectively to meet business needs and desktops to be hosted and managed in the datacenter.
“Deploying VMware View will enable us to reduce our desktop total cost of ownership by up to 50 per cent while enabling us to deliver and administer user standard operating environments from the datacenter and boost business continuity.”
Southeast Financial Credit Union
Southeast Financial Credit Union has a highly manageable, user-friendly desktop environment that delivers business critical applications to 170 branch employees. The VMware View platform is secure: If users make alterations to their desktops, or in the event of a virus infection, Southeast Financial can delete the compromised desktop and quickly provision a new virtual desktop.
“Our VMware desktop virtualization solution is more stable and easier to manage than our old virtualization environment—yet requires less RAM, which saved our firm $12,000.00. We’re also spending far less time diagnosing and troubleshooting our desktop systems, which means we have more time to deliver value to the business.”
Southwest Airlines
“Southwest Airlines is the customer service champ in the industry. Taking excellent care of our customers is just as important as filling our planes with fuel. It’s really what makes us go. So as we are taking a look and trying to be what travelers want in an airline, and we are constantly looking for ways to improve Southwest Airlines and make it better for our customers, that's really where virtualization and IT as a service comes into play.”
St. Francis Health–Mooresville Surgery Center
With VMware Private Cloud Hosted by Solutions Healthcare, St. Francis Mooresville Drives Cost Efficiencies of Business-Critical Billing Application
“A VMware virtual cloud was an easy decision. Not only did it eliminate any up-front hardware capital costs, it also gave us more horsepower, redundancy and data security.”
St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers
Use vSphere And VMware View As The Foundation For Two Internal Cloud Environments—One For Servers, The Other For PCs And Thin Clients—That Save Money, Time, Power, And Above All, Improve Patient Care
“VMware technology is one of the major ways that we’re achieving the cloud and the whole shared-services model. It lets us not only deliver IT service to clinicians and business units effectively and economically, but, as we mature in our cloud environment, we can potentially offer our services to other healthcare providers and hospitals.”
State of Ohio
Stewart McKelvey
Law Firm Stewart McKelvey Virtualizes to Cut Costs, Improve Service VMware Solution Raises Agility of Six Regional Offices
“Stewart McKelvey is an industry leader; ‘Virtualizing’ with VMware ensures the IT network infrastructure supports our Service First objectives.”
SunGard Technology Services
VMware Virtualization Enables SunGard Technology Services To Optimize Computing Resources For Testing And Development By Running Multiple Virtual Machines On A Single Server. Each Machine Can Be Configured Independently, Allowing SunGard To Test Application Behavior Across Several Environments
“VMware has enabled us to reduce the provisioning of new servers at a rapid speed to align IT with business objectives and meet our service level agreements.”
