Manor Bakeries
Manor Bakeries Cooks up Cost Savings and Efficiency Gains with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
“We wanted to control the proliferation of physical servers while we introduced Cognos, and to gain high availability without incurring high costs. By implementing IBM eServer xSeries and VMware software, we have avoided the cost of buying an additional 30 physical servers, and greatly increased our flexibility.”
case study (pdf)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 "
Markel
VMware Underwrites Business Continuity at Markel International
“We knew that VMware virtual infrastructure had huge potential for cost savings, increased flexibility and scalability and decided to rigorously test this with a proof of concept project. Within a month of setting up the test environment we had put 50 server images onto a single box and were convinced that VMware software was the way to go for our entire infrastructure.”
McHenry Savings Bank
The bank implemented VMware Infrastructure 3 to virtualize its servers, improving manageability, performance, utilization and the bottom line.
“The support is just phenomenal. With VMware support staff and one other call that we made to an outside company, we had one employee set up the whole thing on his own without training.”
Mechanics Bank
Mechanics Bank Plans for Scalable Virtual Infrastructure and High ROI Using VMware Virtualization Assessment and Capacity Planner
"The Virtualization Assessment helped us identify what needed to be done to achieve maximum results. The expertise of the consultants provided a full-blown assessment that we could not have done on our own. It was like a health check; it showed us where we are, where we want to be and how to get there ."
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.”
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
“Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is the largest school district in Florida, and the fourth largest in the United States, with more than 400,000 students. We have a similarly large number of desktop computers to control and service-easily greater than 100,000 individual machines.
As we look at the move to Vista, we see the ability to deploy Vista in a VM as a way we can make sure peripherals still work with the XP host OS, while at the same time allowing users the benefits of Vista's enhanced user interface.
Even before we take on this project, we see VMware ACE as a great way to cut down on the downtime associated with corrupted machines. With ACE, we can just take a machine back to its base state with a couple clicks, and that gets the teachers and students back to work quickly and easily.”
Moen
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Saves Moen From Hardware Flood
"Being able to set up a production server in hours translates into the developer being able to develop instead of waiting, the marketing manager being able to get feedback on marketing projects quickly. They don't have to wait for deployment or wait for things to be recovered. It greatly contributes to the company's agility."
Monroe Shine
Monroe Shine Credits VMware for Capitalizing IT Servers
"We’ve always been committed to proactively developing and following five-year business, marketing, succession, and staff plans, but our IT decisions were one-off and reactive. Our IT system was a liability, but with VMware virtual infrastructure now in place, it is an asset. Once we’ve upgraded all our servers to the same type of processors, we hope to have everything in all locations running on VMware virtual infrastructure."
Monster
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Saves Monster From Horrors of Server Sprawl
“Our company is dedicated to providing people with the resources, products and services to enable them to achieve their career goals. With a virtual infrastructure in place, we have the computing resources to fully test, develop and provide tools that will be valuable to our customers.”
Moser Holding
By using VDI, it is possible to dynamically assign users a virtual desktop. On this virtual desktop, the user can make use of full functionality of a workplace integrated into a domain – such as Roaming Profiles, etc. The only thing needed to utilize VDI is Internet Explorer.
“Using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI), we were able to create an easily expandable, stable and easy-to-use system where it makes no difference if the user is sitting at the central office, working from home or is reporting directly from a large international event. We were quite happy about the performance and stability of the solution.“
Mutual of Enumclaw
Mutual of Enumclaw Maximizes Return on IT Investments with VMware ESX
"VMware software lets us be more responsive to business needs with less hardware. When we marry our critical applications to virtual machines, we reduce our costs, maximize use of our server resources, and improve overall TCO. And we end up spending less on our IT budget-which makes everyone happy. I would recommend getting into server virtualization as soon as you can."
National Semiconductor
Less Is More: Server Consolidation Maximizes IT Optimization
“One of the main functions of IT at National is to enable the business to produce faster and more efficiently. The Dell/VMware combination is helping advance that goal by giving us tremendous on-demand capability to meet the needs of our business.”
Netic
Virtual appliances running on VMware® Infrastructure 3 offer rapid deployment, improved performance and reduce time spent on systems management.
“We feel very comfortable having a large ISV test, tune, optimize and be responsible for the interaction between the operating system, the core application, the database and other related systems. Moreover using virtual appliances gives us total freedom to install a Linux optimized application in a Windows environment and vice versa. When you look at it, what you really want is for the evaluation and deployment of the functionality you need to be as easy as possible – not preoccupying your team with optimizing the solution, fine tuning, and making difficult choices around hardware and OS”
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."
Nexans Group
Nexans Benelux Relieves Tension with VMware Software
“We faced the challenge of finding a solution that was properly compatible with our heterogeneous environment. VMware virtual infrastructure has taken up the strain for us and we can continue using all of our existing software on the same hardware, without needing to worry about increasing user numbers. We can now provision a new virtual server in less than an hour. Application deployment is also now much quicker, and takes barely an hour, instead of the four or five hours per server previously.”
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”
nworks
"Asking whether or not a small business should use virtualization is
like asking whether or not a small business should have voicemail—
of course they should. The decision is a no-brainer, as far as I’m
concerned."
Ohio State University
Ohio State Gets an Education about IT from VMware
"“The virtual machines running on VMware ESX worked great. They stayed up and worked well. Believe the hype about VMware virtualization. It works!”
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."