Corporate leaders share reasons for migrating to virtualized infrastructure.
- XP Power had a problem. The power supply manufacturer for the industrial, healthcare and technology industries was running out of data storage at its Sunnyvale, Calif., manufacturing and logistics facility. Matt King, senior IT systems analyst, was desperate for a solution that would enable the company’s engineers to share massive CAD drawings without affecting performance. “Our main production server had only 100 gigs of storage left,” he says. “I was freaking out.”
- For WCC Internet Technologies, a nine-person web design and IT services firm in Salina, Kan., the time to virtualize came when it couldn’t add enough employees or hardware to handle the growth of its business. With a data center featuring about 50 physical servers running several hundred virtual machines, WCCIT hosts hundreds of websites and serves as an offsite IT department for dozens of local businesses. The tipping point came when it began to attract high-end clients with greater demands for uptime, redundancy and clustering, Sadler says.
- For Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, a 150-person law firm with offices in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M., virtualization has provided amazing efficiencies and cost savings, says Information Systems Manager Jim McCue. But even more valuable is the peace of mind it has brought by modernizing the firm’s disaster recovery plans.
- Like XP Power, the Gynecologic Oncology Group, a national cancer research organization, was driven toward virtualization by the need for a shared storage environment, says Scott Gould, senior network and systems analyst at the group’s statistical data center in Buffalo, N.Y.
- If you need to replace aging physical servers, virtualizing them is a no-brainer, says Jerry Irvine, CIO of Prescient Solutions, an IT services firm in Chicago. Prescient deployed server virtualization about four years ago, says Irvine, and has never looked back.
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-by:Dan Tynan |
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