予算の削減を迫られる現在の厳しい経済環境において、IT 部門は少ない投資で多くの効果をあげることを期待されています。 コスト、リソース、および時間の制約がある中、SLA （サービス レベル アグリーメント） の要件を満たしつつ変革を続けるには、どのような方法があるでしょうか。 仮想インフラストラクチャを構築して、IT とデータ センターを管理することが答えとなります。 VMware の仮想化によって、市場環境の変化に迅速に対応できる真のビジネス俊敏性を確保しつつ、短期間で明確なコスト削減を実現できます。 現在の経済状況では、VMware の仮想化ソリューションを導入すべきかという問題よりも、VMware の仮想化ソリューションを導入しない場合、何を実現できないかが問題になります。
- 統合による設備投資コストの削減
- 自動化による運用コストの削減
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コスト削減に関するお客様の成功事例
ABB
“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 capital investments in new hardware."
case study (pdf)Australian Bureau of Statistics
“We strive for simplicity and performance in our operation,” said Marion. “We have achieved this by reducing the numbers and types of physical servers in our datacenters and being able to manage our infrastructure as a single entity.”
Boise
“We can give our end users a virtual machine in half an hour, when it takes two to three weeks to spec out, order, and set up a physical one.”
CBH Group
“More importantly, our existing power supplies were reaching capacity and we would have needed to upgrade just to sustain the physical infrastructure we had. Now we have slightly lower electricity bills as we have fewer servers chewing power, the new environment is not adding to our datacenter heat and we’ve reduced the load on our uninterruptible power supply and generators.”
Dunedin Casino
“We have successfully brought our recovery time objective down from four hours to a few minutes, thanks to the ability to quickly bring up a new virtual machine in the event of a problem.”
Futurefuel Chemical Company
“Using VMware Infrastructure, we were able to save over a month’s time in getting our SAP infrastructure up and running,” he says. “That helped us save over $100,000 in costs associated with a service contract we had in place, so we got a return on our investment in VMware almost instantly.”
Interior Health Authority 社
“IHA has advocated green IT initiatives for many years, so it was very rewarding to see the reduction in energy and power that resulted from implementing VMware virtualization technology. We were able to reduce carbon emissions and save about $70,000 annually in energy costs alone. Add to that the cost savings from minimizing the purchase of new physical servers, and our ROI is outstanding , yet we are sacrificing nothing with regard to application performance. With VMware, green IT and enhanced application performance, availability, and reliability go hand in hand.”
National Trades Union Conference (NTUC)
“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 infrastructure provides the foundation for next-generation systems infrastructure, which will put us in a good place for future growth.”
Nuvasive 社
"It was great being able to add capacity on the fly. Once we’d built out a few templates with different configurations of processors and RAM, we could literally just right-click and deploy a VM fitting the template we wanted in minutes.”
Southwestern / Great American
“Now we can create temporary VMs for software testing,” Solima says. “That was something we could never do before, because we didn’t have hardware just lying around. And it’s fast: we can get a VM up and running within an hour. With physical equipment, that would have taken much longer. We would have had to make a requisition, get that signed off, place an order, wait two weeks for the equipment to come in, and then maybe spend half a day to a day to install the software.”
The University of Plymouth
Adrian Jane, the university’s infrastructure and operations manager, says that by using VMware templates, he and his team can provision a virtual machine in about twenty minutes--as opposed to the months-long process of getting a physical machine up and running. And those virtual machines are far easier to manage than their physical counterparts. “The ability to fine-tune, to increase and decrease the resources that you give to a virtual machine is of real benefit to us,” he says. “If you don’t have an idea of what the performance envelope is going to be on an application, you can start with a relatively lean VM and then, if necessary, push the resources up until you find the level that the application runs best at.”
Operating Cost Savings Customer Success Stories
Alstom
“It's not just about saving money on hardware, but also about simplifying things like application provisioning, maintenance, high availability, and disaster recovery. It's just easier to get things done with VMware. Thanks to VMware, my wife and kids see me more often.”
“As one of the largest global manufacturing companies, it is important for us to keep operational costs low. We have standardized on VMware and its comprehensive application management toolset to improve flexibility and maximize operational efficiency.”
Boise
“We use VMware software all over our company, and it has saved each individual area time, money and resources. We run our production system and key Microsoft applications like Exchange and SQL on virtual machines. Having seen other virtualization technologies, we know that no competitive product comes even close to the value that VMware delivers to our organization every day.”
Natixis
“The net impact of utility computing with VMware for the business is higher service levels, for IT - it is simplified and easier to manage infrastructure.”
Checkpoint
We spend far less time performing upgrades and maintenance tasks, and our service delivery processes are incredibly streamlined.”
The Cleveland Indians Company
“We're predominantly a Microsoft shop, and we run pretty much everything on VMware: Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and windows Server. Everything runs really well - in some cases, better than on physical boxes. And VMware gives us benefits in terms of manageability, availability and reliability. We depend on VMware software because it's proven technology - proven not only in the marketplace, but at our company.
When you talk about what our VMware architecture has done for us, things are just easier. It’s easier to put servers in production, it’s easier to manage those servers, it’s easier to upgrade them, and it also allows us to leverage our SAN across all of our servers versus just a few servers.”
Interfaith Medical Center
“With the majority of our environment now running on VMware, we have more resources to allocate to the tools that our doctors and nurses need to deliver efficient and effective healthcare. Additionally, thanks to the increased uptime, performance, and availability afforded by virtualization, our hospital staff can focus on patient care instead of dealing with technical issues.”
National Trades Union Conference (NTUC)
“Thanks to vCenter, management has been simplified so we do not need to continually hire more administrators. Using vCenter we can provision new virtual machines and monitor the performance of our physical servers and our virtual machines very easily.”
