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- Global Supplier Uses VMware ESX Server, VirtualCenter and VMotion to Simplify Application Deployment and Administration, Solidify Disaster Recovery and Reduce Server Numbers by Two-Thirds
- In 2001 Fjord Seafood Group acquired Fjord Pieters, formerly known as Pieters Visbedrijf, one of the largest seafood suppliers in Belgium. At the time of its acquisition, Fjord Pieters was in the middle of upgrading its IT systems to improve operational efficiency at its three locations. They initially evaluated a...
- Tags: Administration, Supplier, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., VMWare ESX, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware
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- AXA Technology Services Uses VMware ESX Server to Meet Consolidation Goals Without Compromising Performance
- AXA Technology Services, an AXA Group internal service provider organization, provides infrastructure services for AXA Financial. In early 2004, AXA Technology looked to leverage VMware ESX Server and P2V Assistant to consolidate 11 Wintel servers that provide key functionality for AXA Financial's Broker Dealer Infrastructure. With VMware ESX Server, they...
- Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Servers, Hardware
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- Broward Community College Uses VMware ESX Server to Meet the Needs of Faculty, Students and Staff
- With about 700,000 students, Broward is the sixth largest community college in the United States. To meet the needs of its students, faculty and staff, the college had accumulated 70 servers. Systems engineers wanted to consolidate the servers to cut costs and maximize efficiency. After seeing a VMware software demonstration...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
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- Thanks to VMware ESX Server, CESKY TELECOM Can Easily Enhance Performance and Maintain High Flexibility of Solutions
- CESKY TELECOM, a. s. is the biggest provider of telecommunications services in the Czech Republic and one of the top telecommunications companies in Central Europe. CESKY TELECOM, a. s. had to face the challenge of replacing the current mail system, for which support was discontinued by its manufacturer (Hewlett-Packard) and...
- Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., VMWare ESX, Groupware, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Storage, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Servers, Software, Networking, Hardware
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- VMware Virtual Infrastructure Quenches Welch's Thirst for Low-Cost Business Continuity and High Availability
- Welch's - the world's leading producer of juice, jam, and jelly products made from Concord and Niagara grapes - needs high performance, reliable servers to host its enterprise applications and data. The IT group evaluated server consolidation strategies to increase the efficiency and reliability of its IT infrastructure, while reducing...
- Tags: Information Technology, High Availability, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., Welch, Server Consolidation, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management
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- Surebridge Builds Better Customer Service With VMware ESX Server
- Surebridge is a Massachussetts-based application outsourcer of On-Demand solutions. With over 1,000 customers and a profitable track record, Surebridge has been leading the competition since 1997 - and plans to continue its success by building upon the economies of scale that server consolidation provides. By October 2003, Surebridge had deployed...
- Tags: Customer Service, Surebridge, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Server Consolidation, Servers, Storage, Hardware
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- Neverfail Group Builds Innovative and Cost-Effective Disaster-Recovery Solution
- U.K.-based Neverfail Group develops products and services that ensure "business continuity", a process that provides for the continuation of critical services regardless of any event, such as a fire or natural disaster. Business continuity seeks to reduce risk and protect information assets to keep businesses running. Harnessing the power and...
- Tags: Neverfail Group, VMWare ESX Server, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware
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- National Gypsum Company Builds e-Business Infrastructure on VMware ESX Server
- Best known for its Gold Bond brand gypsum wallboard products, National Gypsum Company operates more than 35 facilities throughout North America. National Gypsum sought to enhance its reputation for outstanding customer service by building a powerful business-to-business Web portal. With VMware ESX Server, National Gypsum consolidated the applications and infrastructure...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., E-business, VMWare ESX, Portals, Servers, Storage, Internet, Hardware
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- Mutual of Enumclaw Maximizes Return on IT Investments With VMware ESX Server
- Few companies know the value of efficiency like Mutual of Enumclaw. When its growing hardware base began exceeding space limits and outlasting maintenance warranties, the company investigated how to make IT more efficient through server consolidation. By enabling the team to run multiple applications and operating systems - each in...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, VMware Inc., TCO, VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., VMWare ESX, Roi/Tco, Server Consolidation, Storage, Servers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
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- VMware Helps Maxell Europe Simplify IT Architecture and Reduce Floorspace Requirements
- Since its formation in Japan in 1961, Hitachi Maxell has grown to become a worldwide leader in the development and supply of state-of-the-art energy, memory media and sound and vision products. Maxell Europe needed to regain control of its server estate. Following a successful trial of VMware ESX Server, conducted...
- Tags: Information Technology, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., Servers, Hardware
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- JanPak Delivers High Availability, Nimble Business Response Using VMware ESX Server and P2V Assistant
- JanPak has been dedicated to supplying customers with the highest-quality goods and services in the most efficient, timely manner. In December 2003, the company was motivated to find a more time- and cost-effective way to ensure high availability for a new Citrix- Oracle 9i based application - an enterprise routing...
- Tags: High Availability, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, JanPak, Servers, Hardware
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- Agilera Reduces Physical-Server Needs With the Help of IBM eSeries and VMware ESX Server
- Agilera, Inc., a full-service enterprise application service provider eASP based in Englewood, Colorado, knows what it takes to be on top. They needed to provide a powerful and stable hardware platform for lab and domain control environments on a minimal number of servers. The solution was IBM eSeries 340 servers...
- Tags: Agilera Inc., VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, Servers, Hardware
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- T-Systems Austria: Confident of VMware on Blades
- T-Systems Austria is one of the leading service providers of information and communications technology in Austria. The company wanted to achieve high resource utilization on x86 hardware. In order to provide the systems with the necessary performance capabilities, T-Systems chose the VMware ESX server as the virtualization solution. The T-Systems...
- Tags: T-Systems, Blade, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, T-Systems Austria, Virtualization, Mainframes, Servers, Utility Computing, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Community College of Baltimore County Budget Goes Further With VMware Software on Blades Servers
- The Community College of Baltimore County CCBC spans five campuses, offering a broad range of courses to a culturally diverse student body. The need for efficiency was the driving factor behind CCBC's recent implementation of VMware ESX Server software. CCBC is currently running ESX Server on three IBM HS20 blade...
- Tags: Software, Blade, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, CCBC, Servers, Storage, Hardware
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- How VMware ESX Server virtualizes HP ProLiant servers
- This guide is intended for Project Managers and corporate decision makers involved in the initial phases of enterprise virtualization. This document provides an overall understanding of how VMware ESX Server virtualization works, and should help the reader make informed decisions concerning the implementation of virtualization. This white paper contains functional...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Server, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, HP Compaq ProLiant, VMWare ESX, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
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- VMware ESX Server, VirtualCenter and Vmotion Transform System Management, Reduce Server Sprawl and Underpin Disaster Recovery Strategy
- Addleshaw Goddard is one of the UK's leading law firms. A core aspect of Addleshaw Goddard's business is document production and client communication. To support these activities, the firm requires a reliable IT system that performs well. However, the IT department faced a constant problem; each time a different application...
- Tags: Information Technology, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Addleshaw Goddard, Storage, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management
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- VMware ESX Server, VirtualCenter and VMotion Reduce Server Count by 85 Percent; Resolve Disaster Recovery Issues; and Significantly Reduce Management Workload
- The Aveve Group is Belgium's largest agricultural and horticultural supplier, with a diversified portfolio of 60 commercial and industrial companies and more than 600 franchise partners. The IT team evaluated various solutions to improve the predictability of server performance and overall manageability of the infrastructure. In the long term, they...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Disaster Recovery, VMWare ESX, Aveve Group, Servers, Hardware
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- Live Video - ScreenCam Demo of the VMware ESX Server SMP Capability in Action
- In this webcast, you will view a narrated, screen capture video of VMware ESX Server remote consoles showing the difference in performance of CPU-intensive applications (a media encoder, in this example) between a single virtual CPU and virtual SMP.
- Tags: Video, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, CPU, EMC Corp., VMWare ESX, Corporate Communications, Storage, Processors, Marketing, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
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- AIG Technologies Uses VMware ESX Server to Boost ROI, Enhance Business Response
- AIG Technologies AIGT is a leading supplier of information technology solutions, including applications geared to the insurance industry, managed IT infrastructure services and technology consulting services. As a managed services company, AIGT supports back office operations for AIG business units and third-party customers. They wanted to free up data center...
- Tags: Information Technology, ROI, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Virtual Machine, VMWare ESX, Servers, Hardware
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- QUALCOMM Lowers TCO Using VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter
- QUALCOMM Incorporated, a leader in the digital wireless communications field, is best known for pioneering and commercially developing Code Division Multiple Access CDMA digital wireless technology. The QUALCOMM IT team considered several approaches to lower costs as well as reduce power and space requirements. Server consolidation had much greater potential...
- Tags: Qualcomm Inc., VMware Inc., TCO, VMWare ESX Server, VMWare ESX, Server Consolidation, Team Management, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Management
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