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whitepaper Kane County Streamlines IT With EqualLogic and VMware2008-01-18 Dell EqualLogic
  Kane County is the fourth-largest County in Illinois and one of the fastest growing in the United States. In budget-constrained environment, Kane County wanted to upgrade old technology; increase application and data availability; consolidate servers and reduce server headcount; cut costs on HVAC, power, space; and improve support without increasing staff. As a solution the county used PS300Es in primary and remote data centers and VMware ESX Server, consolidated 84 servers down to 6, saved over 50% in hardware, power, space, and HVAC costs.

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whitepaper Credit Card Firm Vastly Simplifies Deployment, Migration, and Removal of Virtual Machines2008-01-01 Microsoft
  In 2006, faced with rapid growth, Leumi Card needed to expand, optimize, and better manage its server computer resources. YSIDE, a Certified Microsoft service partner, recommended and helped the company implement Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to meet Leumi Card's goals of increasing hardware utilization and enabling IT to more rapidly configure new servers. While Leumi Card benefited greatly from better performance, server consolidation, easier setup of server resources, and cost savings from using Virtual Server - based Virtual Machines (VMs), it needed a more efficient and centralized way to provision and manage VMs. Leumi Card is using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to help centralize management of its entire VM infrastructure, and dramatically speed physical-to-virtual machine conversions and VM provisioning.

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whitepaper StoreVault With VMware Eradicates Corporate Development Systems' Storage Issues2007-12-01 Network Appliance (NetApp)
  As a business solutions provider, Corporate Development Systems (CDS) often tested a large number of different IT environments in-house before deploying these solutions to their customers. Testing scenarios demanded up to 12 physical servers, which were later replaced by a combination of 3 physical servers and virtual servers using VMware ESX server. Virtualization was used to reduce the number of physical servers and consequently reduce power and space utilization. Moreover, limited office space had forced CDS staff to share working space with hardware resulting in unmanageable noise levels. The Business owner and President of CDS, saw the need for a centralized storage solution with multi-protocol support, support for VMware with low noise - all in a limited budget of $20,000.

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whitepaper HypoVereinsbank Opts for Virtualization2007-11-01 Fujitsu
  The HypoVereinsbank wanted to reduce complexity and improve economy. The challenge was to increase flexibility. HypoVereinsbank Information Services GmbH (HVB IS) reorganized a major part of its data center operations with the help of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The project involved consolidation of some 650 physical servers with PRIMERGY Blade servers and VMware. HVB IS migrated groups of 15 to 30 old servers to the new system with impressive results.

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whitepaper Whitnall School District Goes Virtual With StoreVault to Deal With High Investment in Infrastructure2007-11-01 Network Appliance (NetApp)
  The Whitnall School District (WSD) is a consortium of educational institutions, based in Village of Hales Corners that is partly in Franklin city and partly in Greenfield. Storage needs kept expanding as backup data had to be retained for 7 years, instead of the previous 4 year time period. Virtual environments for server infrastructure became the new option because investing in new physical servers seemed expensive and time consuming. The virtual environment using VMWare ESX infrastructure was growing rapidly. However, the available disk space was limited, as it was based on the number of physical drives on the ESX server hardware. As ESX server capacity had already reached its limit, a SAN could help in expanding available storage space to store the virtual machines.

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whitepaper Case Study: Server Virtualization Solution Using VMware2007-10-26 Berbee Information Networks
  Lakeview Medical Center was faced with the challenge of managing a rapidly growing organization with a data center that was originally designed to handle a fraction of the actual workload. Lakeview Medical Center used VMware to consolidate servers and provide a more efficient environment. This reduced backup times, improved application response time and reduced cost of ownership.

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whitepaper Hosting Provider Saves Up to 85% of Power Consumption and Improves Server Management by Using Virtuozzo2007-10-16 Parallels
  ServInt specializes in full-service, high-bandwidth web hosting for business customers. ServInt also provides clients with high-speed Internet access through its Access Services group. ServInt built a successful dedicated hosting business, but wanted to reduce power consumption and better manage their servers. Virtuozzo provided a highly efficient solution for reducing power output through the consolidation of poorly utilized servers. The OS virtualization technology in Virtuozzo provides the lowest possible overhead and lowest possible power consumption of virtualization solutions in the market today. In addition, the management tools that accompany Virtuozzo reduce waste associated with management tasks such as server migration and backup.

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whitepaper Fast-Growing Hosting Service Provider Centralizes and Simplifies Server Management2007-10-01 Microsoft
  RackForce was the first hosting service provider to bring Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 technology to market. However, with hundreds of customers and an array of server nodes, managing the company's growing virtual environment was a challenge. Enterprise-ready and easy to administer, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager lets RackForce centralize and vastly improve virtual machine management. The company can streamline server management and maintain an average of four customers to each physical server, rather than the one-to-one ratio previously supported. System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables RackForce to easily identify which servers have capacity for additional workload, and it significantly simplifies physical to virtual machine migrations. RackForce expects to be able to cut maintenance and provisioning time in half with System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

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whitepaper Information Provider Cuts Costs and Improves Disaster Recovery With Virtual Machines2007-09-01 Microsoft
  Kroll Factual Data delivers Web-based business information to companies such as mortgage lenders and property management firms. In 2003, Kroll Factual Data acquired a company with only 98 hours left on its lease. To avoid paying for the leases on two data centers, Kroll Factual Data chose to migrate the acquired data center onto virtual servers. After an initial deployment of VMware ESX Server, Kroll Factual Data deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition. Today, the company hosts one of the largest known deployments of Virtual Server 2005 R2, with more than 1,400 virtual machines running on 345 physical server computers. As a result of deploying Virtual Server, Kroll Factual Data has reduced expenses and improved system stability and flexibility.

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whitepaper Automotive Services Retailer Shrinks Data Center by Half, Cuts Operational Costs2007-06-08 Microsoft
  Midas is one of the world's largest automotive service providers, including exhaust, brakes, steering, suspension, and maintenance services. There are more than 1,700 franchised and company-owned Midas locations in the United States and Canada. The Midas data center contained many older server computers running unsupported business software. Midas needed to consolidate its servers to create a more stable environment and reduce the size of the data center. It also wanted to minimize the costs in hardware, consulting fees, and rewriting software for the new environment. Midas migrated 16 older servers to 4 physical servers running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. The company reduced hardware migration costs by 53 percent and made the transition without consulting help.

Tags: Virtualization