Customers by Solution - Business Continuity
Aboriginal Medical Service Alliance NT
VMware Virtualization Software Delivered A Flexible, Highly Available Environment Able To Scale To Meet Demand
“VMware virtualization software has provided us with high availability and dynamic allocation of resources, ensuring critically important health records are managed securely."
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Association of Teachers and Lecturers Learns Value of VMware Virtual Infrastructure
"With VMware virtual infrastructure, provisioning new services and changing existing resources dedicated to our software services is extremely manageable. We’ve also been able to increase the continuity of services dramatically by allowing our software to be independent from physical hardware, avoiding the constant developing, updating and testing of expensive disaster recovery plans."
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."
Aveve Group
Aveve Weeds Out Server Sprawl with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
"In the long term, we needed a way of keeping server sprawl under control as the number of companies using the centralized system increased. However, in the short term, it was critically important that we were able to ensure high server performance and implement a reliable disaster recovery strategy. VMware virtual infrastructure has given us a highly flexible solution that we can easily grow when it’s needed."
Baptist Healthcare System
Baptist Healthcare System Uses Full Line of VMware Products for Cost Savings, Ease of Management and High Performance
“Ever since we first looked at VMware technology, each time a new product has come out, we've found a role for the software.”
Baytex Energy Trust
Oil and Gas Company Achieves Quick Server Deployment and Application Installation with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
“If you are considering VMware software, grab the bull by the horns. It's awesome. You can only get benefits. The benefits also grow the more you embrace the technology.”
Bobst Group
Bobst Group Stacks Up Savings with VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Scalability and Server Containment
"In 24-36 months, we plan to have all sites in Bobst Group use a virtual platform for core business functions."
Brisbane City
Server Consolidation Yields More Than Just Cost Savings for Growing Australian City
“We’re extremely happy with how VMware ESX performs. We’re now moving to a two-step process to put the consolidated servers into production.”
Chitale Dairy
Deploy A Highly Redundant, Dynamic And Scalable Virtualized Environment Based On VMware Technologies
“VMware has proven to be fantastic. It delivers a reliable, cost effective infrastructure that enables us to operate for 24 hours a day, seven days of the week, 365 days of the year.”
Cellcom
Cellcom Uses VMware Technology With Blade Servers to Create Virtual IT Infrastructure
"The VMotion technology lets us migrate a server from one hardware platform to another without any service interruption, allowing us to schedule maintenance of the hardware without notifying users or taking down the systems residing on the server."
Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Cures Anemic CPU Utilization and Heals Hardware for Duke Clinical Research Institute
"Almost all of our new application servers are now deployed as virtual machines. In the past 16 months, we've built two physical Windows boxes and more than 40 virtual ones!"
Energie AG
Energie AG Achieves 25:1 Server Consolidation Ratio Plus High Availability
"The need to save space was the immediate reason for our migration into a virtual infrastructure. In addition to a consolidation ratio of 25:1, we also somewhat incidentally acquired an elegant high-availability solution. The cost factor is the ‘dot on the i’ of the entire project."
Errebian
VMware 10:1 Server Consolidation Enables Increased Business for Italian Office Supplier Errebian S.p.A.
"Errebian is a leading company in the Italian office supply market, and our mission is to provide our customers with the best mix of high-availability and cutting-edge technology. This keeps us one step ahead of the competition by investing in the know-how to continually provide innovative new solutions. VMware software enables us to meet this mission, and it gives us the companywide feeling that we have enhanced our ability to provide solutions to our customers."
Five
VMware infrastructure supports extensive library of virtual machines for testing, while providing effective disaster recovery platform
“Virtualisation gives us a lot more flexibility from a disaster recovery standpoint compared to using physical hardware. In the event of an issue, we can bring up the services that we need to meet the organisation’s business requirements quickly. We also see virtualisation providing us with an opportunity to significantly reduce our power and cooling requirements.”
Helix Financials
VMware® Infrastructure Enables Cost-Effective Operation Of Multiple Virtual Machines On Consolidated Server Hardware
“VMware virtualization has enabled us to support a sharp rise in staff numbers without investing in several new physical servers or significantly upgrading our data center space, cooling and power."
IXIS Capital Markets
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Helps IXIS Maintain a Bull-Market Edge
“Using VMware VMotion, we completed a patch upgrade from ESX Server 2.5 to 2.5.1 during the week, while our traders were trading, with zero downtime. Try doing that in a physical world!”
Manukau Institute of Technology
VMware Aids New Zealand Education Institute in Reduction of Server Hardware, and Better Resource Management
“We used to associate a service with a server, now we have a pool of resources. If a server fails, the service isn’t compromised. So, you get a very, very efficient use of the hardware resource.”
Marine Corps Enterprise Network
VMware Enlisted to Serve Marine Corps Enterprise Networking Requirements
"The MCNOSC needed an affordable and easy-to-manage alternate site with real-time data transfer that would be reliable in the event of a catastrophe. The VMware virtual infrastructure so effectively met these requirements that it is being leveraged for regional server farm and deployed operations implementation "
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch's Investment in VMware Technology is a Win for Jacksonville Campus
“While we initially chose VMware virtual infrastructure to address development hardware problems by reducing hardware costs and decreasing server deployment time, we soon discovered additional benefits to adopting the technology, including server portability, protection, and availability. All the advantages provided by VMware software have created an ideal work environment for our developers, allowing them to develop applications more efficiently. With virtual machines, developers avoid downtime and bring products to the market faster. We also envision that the flexible and efficient virtual infrastructure will allow even greater disaster recovery options, virtual labs, training, and desktop portability.”
Neverfail Group
Neverfail Group Adopts Innovative and Cost-Effective Disaster-Recovery Solution
"VMware ESX is revolutionizing the way we do business. By allowing operating environments to reside in software, as opposed to physical servers, VMware ESX enables us to recover many failed servers onto just one machine. Overall, we are seeing a 70 percent reduction in costs using VMware ESX."
NTUC
NTUC Takes A First Step Towards Utility Computing Future With VMware Virtual Infrastructure, Saves Millions While Enhancing Service
“We eventually want to move to a utility-computing model with computing power and services on tap. That way, we pay for what we use rather than being hampered with underused resources that rapidly depreciates in value. VMware virtual infrastructure is a key step to reaching that goal. VMware virtual nfrastructure provides the foundation for next-generation systems nfrastructure, which will put us in a good place for future growth.”
Nufarm
Nufarm uses VMware to get business back online after a fire urns down their data centre
“When the fire wiped us out, VMware was the only thing that could get the business back online with the speed it did. When we really needed it VMware ESX enabled us to get the most out of our hardware – and continues to do so”
Nurses Board of Victoria
VMware® Infrastructure delivers cost-effective server consolidation, high availability and strong mission-critical registration system
“NBV has substantially enhanced its IT environment, culminating in a virtualized setup capable of supporting critical applications including a new nurse registration system”
Orica
Engaged VMware Premier Partner Data#3 To Deploy A Flexible, Dynamic And Scalable Virtualized Environment Based On Vmware Infrastructure
"Our virtualized server infrastructure has enabled us to quickly deploy applications in response to business demand, particularly from our mining services operation which is riding the wave of the resources boom."
Oxford University
Oxford University Computing Services Benefits from Using VMware Virtual Infrastructure
"We are constantly looking for ways to improve the flexibility and resilience of our infrastructure and have found that a VMware virtual infrastructure is the best way of achieving this. Not only does it mean we operate our core services more efficiently on fewer servers with higher utilization, but it also opens up more opportunities for the provision of specialist, revenue-generating services."
Ports Of Auckland
VMware Virtualization Infrastructure ensures replicated data can be restored quickly while reducing cost and environmental footprint.
"Deploying VMware virtualization infrastructure has enabled us to enhance our disaster recovery and redundancy capabilities and ensure we can continue to support the business in the event of an outage."
Republic Polytechnic
At the Forefront of Educational Excellence, Republic Polytechnic Uses VMware for Innovative Problem-Based Learning
"VMware Workstation and VMware ESX have given us a platform to build a much larger infrastructure when we move to our new campus. In addition, they helped us save money on hardware and real estate without compromising our ability to deliver a real-world experience to our students."
Subaru
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Keeps Production Line Going at Subaru of Indiana Automotive
“Our downtime number last year was under three hours. The year before, when we didn't have VMware software, it was 28 hours. We made other improvements to reduce the number, but I would say 40 percent is attributable to VMware software.”
Townsville City Council
VMware virtualization reduces cooling and power requirements, provides a robust, dynamic platform to support the new Townsville City Council and enhances server CPU utilization
"VMware has allowed us to stabilize our data center power requirements and provided a robust, scalable platform to support our merger with Thuringowa City Council."
VariQ
The agency turned to VariQ to implement VMware® Infrastructure 3 Enterprise with integrated disaster recovery functionality. The solution helped the agency to increase uptime, maintain high application availability and reduce recovery time.
"The VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise snapshot features combined with our shared SAN storage mesh are truly impressive. We have reduced application testing to production lifecycles by 300 percent."
WebCentral
VMware Virtualization Software Enabled The Company To Deliver True 'On Demand' Services And Achieve Greater Agility In Software Deployment.
“It very quickly became obvious that virtualization could deliver economies of scale and efficiencies while meeting the higher performance and availability requirements of our larger corporate customers."
WWF United Kingdom
VMware® Infrastructure 3 for 5:1 server consolidation and high availability of critical servers
"Virtualisation has allowed WWF to simply manage our IT infrastructure and create an effective disaster recovery practice. After experiencing these benefits in our UK office, my IT team has been urging all of our other offices to ‘go virtual.’ Our aim is for the entire global operation of WWF to run on VMware and dramatically reduce our carbon footprint through virtualisation."