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VMware virtualization has allowed Corporate Express to improve the agility and flexibility of its IT systems, and align its technology closely with business needs. It has also provided a powerful reference for customers of its external IT service delivery business unit.
“We have built an agile, dynamic infrastructure platform that supports our IT team’s strategic approach to managing requests from our business units. We don’t have to go back and re-architect an environment every time because everything is virtualized.”
Case Study (pdf)A Large American Retail Chain
VMware Technology Allows Companies To Transform Their Physical IT Assets Into A Virtual Infrastructure That Simplifies IT Administration
“Now that we have VMware technology, our servers pretty much manage themselves. That’s a far cry from how it was before.”
A Large American University
VMware Infrastructure 3 Provides A Platform For Creating A Scalable And Flexible Virtual Infrastructure That Reduces Costs And Eases Administration
“VMware technology has played a critical role in helping us modernize our central IT environment. VMware is creating a true partnership that isn’t just about selling licenses—it’s about giving us what we need to be successful in our goals.”
A Large University in Texas
VMware vSphere 4 Creates An IT Environment That Is Easier To Manage, Easier To Keep Available, And Easier To Recover—All While Lowering Overall Costs
“VMware vSphere has been a huge benefit to us. It saves time, it saves money, and it makes our critical applications more available and recoverable. It’s hard to think of an aspect of IT where vSphere isn’t playing an important supporting role for us.”
ABB Grain Ltd
By Adopting VMware Virtualization, ABB Grain Was Able To Meet Its DR Requirements While Rapidly Integrating New Acquirees Into Its Business. The Organization Saved A$60,000 In Server Maintenance Costs While Implementing A Dynamic Infrastructure.
“VMware has delivered a robust, scalable, dynamic infrastructure that allows us to quickly integrate newly-acquired businesses and implement a standard corporate environment without making huge investments in new hardware.”
Adelaide Brighton Ltd.
VMware Infrastructure Cut Costs and Reduced Hardware Upgrade Time
"With server sprawl pushing our data center to its limits, we needed to implement a scalable platform that would constrain hardware growth and reduce costs. VMware has provided this while enhancing our disaster recovery capabilities."
Adventist Health System Information Services
VMware Infrastructure 3 And VMware Site Recovery Manager Create An IT Environment That Is More Manageable, Available, And Recoverable
“VMware Site Recovery Manager makes managing and testing our recovery plans as easy as pushing a button. The fact that we can run tests as often as we want gives us a high degree of confidence in the recoverability of our systems.”
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)
Deploy VMware virtualization to allocate server resources to applications and services as required while lowering costs and improving return on hardware investment.
“To support our team’s work testing, developing and releasing into production applications that support our scientific and business goals, we deployed a virtualized infrastructure that removed the need to wait weeks to acquire new physical servers.”
Agricultural Bank of China, Guizhou Branch
VMware's ESX Server Helped The Guizhou Branch Of Agricultural Bank Of China To Centralize Management And Provision Their Application Servers Without Increasing Capital Costs. Maintenance Of And Upgrades For The Front-Counter Systems Have Been Handed Over From Local Branches To The Guizhou Province Branch. The Results Are Improved Server Applications Integration And Increased Server Utilization, Reduced The Number Of Technical Supporting Staff, Saved Data Center Space, And Improved Customer Satisfaction.
"VMware's virtualization technology has enabled us to centralize the upgrading and maintenance of our front-counter systems from local branches to the province headquarters as well as consolidate our servers and significantly streamline management tasks. The result is quick system upgrades and maintenance, reduced data center space and substantial power and cooling cost reduction, all of which have helped us achieve our goals."
Allied Electronics
VMware Technology Creates A Virtual Infrastructure That Simplifies IT Administration And Increases Availability And Redundancy Of Core Applications
“Like most companies, we started with virtualization as a way to eliminate server sprawl and get better utilization out of our servers. Now, our VMware and Intel based virtualization solution is playing a serious role in our disaster recovery discussions.”
Amadeus Asia Ltd
Implemented VMware Virtualization To Enable The Business To Cut Costs, Improve Resource Usage, Reduce Provisioning Time, Lessen The Administration Load And Ensure Business Continuity For Critical Applications.
"VMware is the leader in the virtualization space today and that is one of the reasons why we decided to align ourselves with the company.”
Amway
Amway Uses VMware Infrastructure To Consolidate Hosts While Improving The Reliability And Manageability Of Its Technology Infrastructure, Both At Its Headquarters And Remote Offices Worldwide
“Besides server consolidation, I think the biggest advantage we get from VMware technology is in the area of disaster recovery. About two years ago we made a strategic decision to virtualize everything on our disaster-recovery source list, for instance, Tier 1 applications like EMC Documentum. We’ve identified virtualization as the key enabler to protect our most important applications.”
Amway
VMware View with PCoIP Protocol Enables Amway to Aggregate Americas Operations for Economies of Scale End Users in Costa Rica Gain High-Performance Access to Michigan Datacenter over WAN
“VMware View with PCoIP protocol delivers a LAN-like end-user experience to employees in Costa Rica accessing datacenter resources in Michigan.”
Anonymous Food Safety Agency
Government Organization Boosts Safety Development Efforts with Innovative Test and Development Datacenter
“The VMware vCloud Director infrastructure we’ve designed for our test and development datacenter lets us automate provisioning to create secure replicas of our production systems for use by our development engineers. It truly demonstrates that the future is today.”
Aprimo
Aprimo maintains competitive edge by providing customers SaaS options. Cloud platform enables right-sized environment to meet customer demand; flexibility offers first-to-market potential for products; delivering services to a larger customer base with relatively less substantial costs.
“VMware makes it incredibly easy to implement a cloud environment and gives us a competitive advantage.”
Arinso International
VMware Infrastructure Reduced Application Deployment Time, Improved Availability And Enabled Remote Management.
“Our mantra was flexibility, flexibility and flexibility. VMware virtual infrastructure allows us to rapidly deploy highly critical new services and applications while managing the entire infrastructure remotely. VMware was a perfect fit for us.”
Atlas Bank
VMware vSphere 4 Enables Consolidation Of Physical Hardware To Eradicate Server Sprawl And Lower Power And Cooling Costs While Offering Scalability, Performance And High Availability.
“Running VMware vSphere 4 on a powerful hardware platform gives us the scalability to support our ambitious growth plans and create a private cloud that enables us to deliver our infrastructure resources as services to the business as and when required.”
Australian Bureau of Statistics
VMware Virtualization Reduces Datacenter Costs While Enhancing Manageability And Performance.
“Deploying VMware has enabled us to eliminate the two-month delays that our business clients often experienced before gaining access to a piece of testing hardware, while ensuring we can optimize performance for databases and applications.”
Australian Catholic University
VMware virtualization has enabled ACU to consolidate its physical server fleet, reducing costs and improving manageability. ACU also gained a platform on which to build its cloud computing capability.
“VMware has given us a lot of flexibility and the confidence that we can move to our disaster recovery environment when we need to. We have also saved on time, effort, procurement and energy costs and can now quickly deploy new virtual servers to meet our business needs.”
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
VMware Infrastructure Delivers Cost-Effective Server Consolidation, Real-Time Backup, Strong Redundancy and High Availability
“This virtual environment has enabled us to constrain costs while delivering our applications reliably. We are now keen to explore the potential of desktop virtualization and plan to undertake some prototyping towards the end of the year.”
