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whitepaper Novell Case Study: Stonebridge Bank0000-00-00 Novell
  With nearly $400 million in assets, Stonebridge Bank combines community banking with advanced online technology. Stonebridge wanted to replace its costly Windows systems and consolidate its data center. Faced with a large and expensive data center, Stonebridge Bank turned to Linux to consolidate its servers without sacrificing security or performance. With Novell Open Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and virtualization software, the bank consolidated its servers by 83 percent and reduced server ownership costs by nearly 90 percent.

Tags: Linux Server OS, Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper An IBM eServer i5 System Provides a Strong Return for the United States Tennis Association0000-00-00 IBM
  The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for American tennis. The challenge faced was to provide a simplified IT infrastructure for the US Open so tennis fans around the world can share the experience through the official US Open Web site. The solution to this was achieved by consolidating server and storage resources using the IBM eserver i5 system.

Tags: Linux Server OS, Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Server Consolidation With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server at First National Bank of Omaha0000-00-00 Novell
  First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO) is the heart of First National of Nebraska, one of the largest and most highly respected regional banking institutions west of the Mississippi. As the financial industry transitions from paper to electronic-based transactions, banks are tasked to handle enormous volumes of electronic data. This shift is requiring financial institutions to make significant investments in security, network capacity, system performance and storage, which can significantly impact IT budgets. FNBO was weighed down with the costs of managing 600 servers, including 40 Sun Solaris boxes with 80 processors, and multiple operating platforms. This was solved by replacing its UNIX environment as FNBO chose to partner with Novell and IBM for a solution consisting of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running on an IBM zSeries mainframe.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Nucleus Research Case Study: IRMC2007-04-01 Nucleus Research
  IRMC provides customer management solutions specializing in collections, accounts receivable management, and customer retention services through its global call center network of nearly 6,000 employees. IRMC needed greater speed and flexibility in meeting the needs of its collections and financial services industry clients, who often requested rapid rollout of additional agents or programs in different sites around the world. It needed to deliver personalized desktops to end users while managing the support costs of those desktops. The team explored a number of technology options including solutions from Citrix and VMware and selected VMware for a number of reasons. Because the technology team already had considerable experience with VMware, the team was able to build the environment on its own in two weeks.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper French Hospital Simplifies Workload Management for IT Team With Virtualisation Software0000-00-00 Microsoft
  The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Rennes is one of France's biggest and most prestigious teaching hospitals. To maintain its reputation for modern patient-centric services, the hospital needed to relocate its IT infrastructure to a new building, while continuing to support critical systems. Rennes CHU decided to virtualise part of its server farm to easily migrate and consolidate its infrastructure in a secure way. The IT team chose Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 over a rival offering from VMware. Consolidation of server workloads into fewer physical machines has produced lower hardware and administration costs for the hospital, while delivering greater server efficiency and flexibility.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper IT Infrastructure and Hosting Leader Cuts Costs With Server Consolidation0000-00-00 Microsoft
  TELUS, Canada's market leader for mission-critical IT infrastructure and application hosting, is constantly aiming to reduce technology costs for its customers. To meet that goal more effectively, TELUS will offer hosted environments using virtual machines running on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The company expects server consolidation and greater administrator productivity to cut IT infrastructure and hosting costs. TELUS envisions a self-serve Web interface that will make it possible for customers to provision additional servers, or additional resources on existing servers, at their convenience. Automated provisioning will even enable servers and resources to come online and offline according to preset schedules or as required based on demand for resources.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper ANICO Cuts Costs by $1.1 Million With Five-to-One Server Consolidation0000-00-00 Microsoft
  The American National Insurance COmpany (ANICO), one of the nation's largest life insurance companies, wanted to move its data center to a more secure location. But the U.S.$1.32 million cost of replicating 132 server computers in the new environment was prohibitive. By deciding to use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to make its data center move, the company achieved a more than five-to-one consolidation of servers down to just 24 servers and decreased its costs by $1.1 million. Beyond providing cost savings, Virtual Server decreases the time for server deployment and rollback from hours to minutes, making it possible for ANICO to expand its development and testing of new internal applications and to make those applications more effective.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper AXA Group Uses Virtual Machines to Curb IT Expenses and Modernize Data Centers0000-00-00 Microsoft
  AXA Group is an international financial protection company with 50 million clients and more than 117,000 employees. In 2003, AXA launched a companywide server consolidation program to lower data center costs. When Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 became available, the North American IT group at AXA evaluated it, and the chief information officer approved its use in global data centers. In addition to helping AXA dramatically streamline its Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 - based holdings, Virtual Server 2005 delivers savings from faster server provisioning and lower server management costs.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Bank Streamlines Data Center and Reduces Hardware Costs Using Virtual Machines0000-00-00 Microsoft
  National City has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. With nearly 100 new discretionary line-of-business projects each year - each effort requiring at least three servers, for test, quality verification, and production - the bank needed to address hardware acquisition, server management, and data center costs. To curb server proliferation, National City piloted Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, running in conjunction with Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Based on the results, National City expects to reduce server purchases by at least 90 servers, saving the company a significant amount of money over the next three years.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper TORN Enables On Demand Business With Linux on IBM System z0000-00-00 IBM
  TORN Sp. z o.o. provides strategic consulting services to a variety of companies in Poland. The company wanted to replace a mixed farm of physical servers, create a simpler, more flexible and more scalable infrastructure; increase the availability of systems while driving down costs. This was solved by implementing an IBM zSeries 890 server, running Linux under z/VM; migrated core portal creation system to Linux; now running customer systems as virtual servers on the z890.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   


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