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whitepaper Case Study: The DCMA Improves Application Performance and Users' Satisfaction with WAN Optimization2008-01-31 Riverbed
  This report examines how the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) solved application performance issues resulting from server consolidation. As a result of implementing an IT consolidation solution that goes beyond costly bandwidth upgrades to WAN optimization, the DCMA was able to improve application performance and overall user satisfaction. Read this report today.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues, Infrastructure Management, Network Design, Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic2008-01-18 Dell EqualLogic
  Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than 338,000 people. Heavily timbered, the county's geographical features include Mt. Hood and numerous rivers - the Willamette, Clackamas, Sandy, Pudding, Molalla and Salmon. The Aging Fibre Channel SAN could not scale to meet growing demands. Clackamas County replaced old Fibre Channel SAN with modular PS Series SAN for central storage consolidation and data protection. It attached stray servers to the SAN, eliminating all direct attached storage.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Storage Consolidation		   
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.

Tags: Virtualization		   
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.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper University Simplifies Administration With Server Consolidation, Management Tools2008-01-01 Microsoft
  Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a research university in Germany with multiple disciplines and more than 35,000 students. The university community uses a variety of client software and has considerable freedom in implementing new solutions. To support this constantly changing environment, the central IT department at the university needs to adopt new server technology quickly. To simplify IT administration, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz implemented a solution based on Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. With improved management capabilities and enhanced services, the university can more easily support its decentralized IT environment. In addition, the university expects that server virtualization will help reduce hardware and management costs by reducing the number of physical systems it maintains by 80 percent.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper IT Consulting Firm Designs Disaster-Recovery System and Reduces Costs by 80 Percent2007-12-01 Microsoft
  CompuCom Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of IT infrastructures for thousands of midsize companies. In October 2005, LifeGift, a non-profit organ-procurement organization, hired CompuCom Systems to design an IT infrastructure that the company could use to save costs by consolidating physical servers, integrate the operations of its Houston and Fort Worth offices, and provide a reliable data-recovery environment. CompuCom Systems migrated all LifeGift software applications to a virtual server environment based on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Supports SQL Services Growth2007-12-01 Microsoft
  Specialists in proactive database administration SQL Services provide corporate customers with reliable, continuous support. With an ability to anticipate potential problems for its customers, the company foresaw its own increasing growth stretching the capacity of its systems. As a result, SQL Services used Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to consolidate its access to customers' server environments, improve productivity by 400%, decrease total cost of ownership by a factor of four and support more flexible resource allocation.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
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.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Sun Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Solution Boosts Performance, Lowers TCO2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  KnowledgeBase Marketing provides information and database marketing solutions that enable companies to acquire and manage profitable customer relationships across traditional and Web-based contact points. The company's challenge was to provide cost-effective storage for data growing at more than 35% per year to improve storage utilization and management. They wanted to reduce storage administration and maintenance costs and move data center from Houston to Dallas. Following a storage assessment performed by Sun Professional Services, KnowledgeBase Marketing consolidated multiple storage platforms and implemented an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)/storage virtualization strategy to improve its storage utilization and reduce TCO. As a follow-on project, Sun helped the customer move its data center from Houston to Dallas, Texas, and refresh its mainframe environment.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Major Media Company Saves Power Costs and Space While Improving Performance With Sun Fire T1000 Servers2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  PlanetOut Inc. is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender (LGBT) community. The company wanted refresh and consolidate application infrastructure to provide scalability strategy for growing enterprise. The company's challenge was to improve application performance and reduce server downtime. PlanetOut consolidated its Web and application tiers using Sun Fire T1000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System. The Containers feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System enables each server to handle the workload of up to 10 older machines.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   


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