Success Stories

Large Regional Bank Wins with VMware/Storage Virtualization

VMware implementation at a regional bank produces huge savings in hardware and energy costs.  Server environment with over 100 physical servers supporting dozens of locations and hundreds of users virtualized to eight (8) servers, six being repurposed two-ways, along with two new quad dual-core servers.  Other project benefits from virtualization include:

• Reduced physical server footprint by 90%
• Lowered data center energy consumption by an estimated 85%, or $400K over 5 year period
• Delivered ROI of 600% and payback in just 10 months with project investment of less than $300K  
• Eliminated the need and cost of planned data center hardware over 5 year period, saving approximately $1.5 million in budgeted IT spending
• Eliminated most SAN connectivity costs, as well as lowering recurring IT administration costs
• Reduced projected disaster recovery costs by over 50%
• Provided advanced high availability and failover options for increased server uptime