Growing Energy Utility Chooses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility and Cut Costs

Overview

Following a recent drive to acquire and build new facilities, Spanish utility Iberdrola reached its goal of becoming the world's top producer of wind-generated electricity. However, this period of rapid growth and expansion into global markets has put pressure on the company's IT department to more efficiently manage its server farms housed in data centers in Madrid and Bilbao. IT managers chose Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Iberdrola saved up to 80 percent in data center costs, reduced test and deployment cycles to bring applications more quickly into production, simplified the management of its virtualized environment, and improved disaster recovery.