Virtualization Examples and Use Cases
Examples, insight and guidance from expert users who have implemented Virtualization. Benefit from these users' lessons learned, mistakes and tips while learning about Virtualization's costs, benefits and technical implementation details.
| Merrill Lynch Plans to Virtualize Half Its Desktops |
| An in-depth look at Merrill Lynch's aggressive adoption of virtualization. From the Resource: "Desktop virtualization is an emerging technology for which the practical options for large-scale adoption are just starting to take shape, so most IT leadership teams aren't sure how big a part it will play in their IT strategies. Merrill Lynch, however, is way past wait-and-see. According to [Merrill Lynch chief architect Jeff] Birnbaum, the firm plans to virtualize 10 percent of its 63,000 employees' desktops by [YE2008], and as many as half within five years, including those of many mobile workers. That's a huge bet that desktop virtualization is ready for massive scale and Wall Street's demanding performance standards." |
| J. Nicholas Hoover, Information Week |
| Insurers Seek Energy Efficiency Through Virtualization |
| "Since the overall virtualization effort began in 2005, Nationwide [Insurance] has reduced physical servers from more than 5,000 to about 3,500 [and] virtual servers have increased from 75 to more than 1,450, with a related 50 percent reduction in monthly Web hosting costs, an 80 percent reduction in data center floor space needs, a 20 percent to 50 percent reduction in hardware and operating system support costs, and an average increase of server utilization to about 65 percent from 10 percent." |
| Anthony O'Donnell, Insurance & Technology |
| Achieving EfficiencyGains Via Virtualization |
| US federal government agency usage of virtualization: - The U.S. House of Representatives is consolidating servers via a virtualization implementation that's expected to boost server utilization from under seven percent to more than 60 percent, and cut the number of servers as well as energy consumption costs, the latter by as much as 75 percent. - The U.S. Navy is consolidating 2,600 servers that support the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, which serves more than 700,000 users. Anticipated savings include a rdaddphp.6 million reduction in annual energy costs. - The Defense Information Systems Agency is using virtualization technologies to consolidate from 18 data centers to 13, primarily to reduce labor costs and boost management capability. - The Defense Contract Management Agency has simplified its server infrastructure by implementing [virtualization], eliminating 400 servers, reducing its data centers from 18 to five in the U.S., trimming an estimated rdaddphp.5 million in annual IT costs, and improving overall operational performance. - The Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., virtualized its servers, achieving a 5:1 server consolidation ratio, increasing uptime to 99.9%, cutting development time for new applications by 50%, and increasing processor utilization. - The National Labor Relations Board consolidated eight email servers to one clustered configuration and reduced 55 regional file and print servers to two network-attached storage devices using virtualization technologies. |
| Government Computer News |
