Success Stories

Large Paper Product Manufacturer Wins with Virtualization

Virtualization experts deliver server consolidation solution reducing physical server count from approximately 1500 Windows x86 servers to a server farm of 45 Dell 4 CPU servers.  This project provided the following benefits at just one data center:

• Reduced the physical server footprint by over 90%
• Lowered the data center electrical costs 85% -by removing server hardware, LAN infrastructure and hardware, and  allowing the shutdown of two heavy-duty AC units
• Saved customer approximately $1.1M in annual heating, cooling and electrical costs
• Eliminated the need and the cost of a planned hardware refresh for 1200+ servers saving $8.5M in budgeted IT spending
• Established server provisioning processes where IT provisions new application servers as virtual machines in less than 30 minutes.  The old process using physical servers took 6 weeks.
• Provided advanced high availability and failover options for increased server uptime
• Decreased data center business continuity failover time from 8 days to 8 hours, putting 1500 virtual machines with the most business critical servers back online in less than 20 minutes