Alstom
ALSTOM Powers IT Infrastructure with VMware Software
“Our ITIL based model of offering IT services to internal customers in a service catalogue means that we have a very accurate view of the cost to our business. Using VMware virtual infrastructure, we can offer the same levels of service and more flexibility for up to 40 percent lower server and operating system costs.”
Case Study (pdf)Alstom
VMware Infrastructure Enables The Fast Development Of A Dependable, Secure And Cost-Effective Infrastructure For BlackBerry Enterprise Server
“Our CEO wanted a robust BlackBerry Enterprise environment up and running within three months. We did it with VMware. It is in service around the clock and is never allowed to stop. Normally you’d call that ‘7 days and 24 hours availability,’ but with an application of this importance, we say ‘8 days and 25 hours.’ BES runs transparently on VMware virtual machines, with the same functionality and configuration as on physical servers. Actually, it’s even better than running BES on physical servers, because we have automatic high availability: if something goes wrong with one host, the VMs running on it automatically restart on other hosts in about a minute. We have very few support issues with our applications running on VMware–and I can’t remember any with BES. Plus, there have been no performance issues at all. In fact, a message generally gets to your BlackBerry before it arrives in Lotus Notes.”
AXA Technology Services
AXA Technology Services Uses VMware ESX Server to Meet Consolidation Goals Without Compromising Performance
"We wanted to gain the benefits of server consolidation, but we needed to guarantee that the performance of broker applications running on virtual machines would be as reliable as running them on physical servers. With VMware ESX Server, we were able to successfully migrate our applications to virtual machines, and the applications ran flawlessly."
Business Objects
Business Objects Streamlines Demo Development Cycle and Lightens Workloads for Hundreds with VMware Workstation
"For us, it’s pretty much VMware Workstation and VMware GSX Server all day every day. They’re core tools to doing our day-to-day jobs. We’ve seen huge productivity gains as of a result of our sales consultants no longer having to put together their own individual demos. In fact, we just came from a meeting of worldwide sales consultants where we continued to hear how much they appreciate the centralized demos. There’s no question we’re now providing our sales consultants with the best demos of our most recent products. Without VMware technology, this would not be possible.”
Nat IXIS
Natixis Chose to Upgrade Most of Its Servers to VMware Infrastructure 3 and Deploy Supporting Products to Maximize Server Utilization, Cut Costs and Improve Manageability
“Before VMware, it took almost three weeks to provision a machine. Now it takes a few hours from start to finish: deploying the virtual machine template, installing the application, testing and finally turning the virtual machine over to the end user. VMware Infrastructure 3 gives our engineers more time to focus on other projects, because we now have a fully automated data center, with Distributed Resource Scheduler and High Availability looking after our virtual infrastructure environment.”
Nexans Group
Nexans Benelux Relieves Tension with VMware Software
“We faced the challenge of finding a solution that was properly compatible with our heterogeneous environment. VMware virtual infrastructure has taken up the strain for us and we can continue using all of our existing software on the same hardware, without needing to worry about increasing user numbers. We can now provision a new virtual server in less than an hour. Application deployment is also now much quicker, and takes barely an hour, instead of the four or five hours per server previously.”