Del Monte Uses Virtualization to Save Power and Speed Software Deployment

Overview

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Del Monte Foods has been producing food since 1916. The company depends on accurate demand forecasting, which requires extensive collaboration and data-intensive analysis. The IT department is tasked with meeting these business demands while keeping costs low to reduce corporate overhead. Del Monte is using the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology to speed the testing process for product upgrades, allowing the IT department to deploy new technologies faster. Hyper-V will be used to facilitate server consolidation in the data center, saving on power costs and hardware maintenance, and resulting in potential savings of $430,000 per year over the next few years.