Elysium Solutions - VMware Customers

Green IT Customers

1800Radiator

“By virtualizing my servers using VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, I’ve got total redundancy, I don’t have to allocate a separate machine for every application, and I’m no longer facing $100,000 in new infrastructure costs just to keep up with business demands. We now have the infrastructure to provide the best business applications and services in the entire automotive aftermarket parts industry.”

—Mike Carvalho, CTO, 1800Radiator

Benefits in Detail

Reduced power and cooling consumption by 25% in the datacenter, saving $5,000 per year
Received a PG&E rebate of close to $6,000 for consolidation project
Avoided purchase of $100,000 worth of new hardware
Eliminated the “one app per server” rule, improving flexibility and availability
Primary and disaster recovery site both managed from single VirtualCenter console
Reduced downtime due to hardware failure and maintenance
Primary and secondary datacenters both run below 50% capacity, allowing instant failover support of entire computing load

drugstore.com, inc.

“The fact that VMware Infrastructure 3 allows us to aggregate multiple physical servers into one dynamic resource pool has been quite helpful. Through grouping servers with high hardware demands into defined resource pools, we are able to sustain higher numbers of virtual machines within the same cluster. This eliminates the need for additional infrastructure and helps drugstore.com, inc. save money.”

—Jeremiah Essig, UNIX System Engineer, drugstore.com, inc.

Benefits in Detail

Reduced power and cooling consumption by 85%
Achieved a server consolidation ratio of 25:1
Avoided hiring additional operational staff
Consolidated SAN and network infrastructure
Gained flexible environment that enhances agility
Reduced downtime due to hardware failure and maintenance
Added ability to spin up or down entire environments in minutes
Increased hardware utilization
Retired aging hardware

First American Corporation

“Using VMware technology to consolidate our servers and shrink our datacenter footprint has helped us significantly reduce our energy consumption. This practice is the primary driver behind a six-figure rebate check we will be receiving from Southern California Edison this year.”

“Once the server consolidation project was underway, we experienced the benefits of VMware Infrastructure 3 firsthand. It has greatly simplified IT management while significantly reducing the footprint of our datacenter. We’ll be taking a similar approach to our desktop infrastructure by using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to replace our existing desktops with thin clients. Every efficiency we capitalize on by using VMware technology helps make us a greener, more efficient organization.”

—Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architect

Benefits in Detail

Virtualize 20% of existing datacenter
“In our California datacenter, we have 3,500 individual operating systems running on 2,800 physical hosts,” says Seitz. “That translates into 700 physical machines that we didn’t have to purchase, refresh and maintain.”
Virtualize 9% of new servers
“We have a massive hardware refresh occurring this year,” says Seitz. “For 9% of the machines that we have identified for the refresh, we will be creating virtual machines rather than purchasing 1:1 hardware replacement.”
Reduce desktop power consumption by 93%
“As we roll out VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, we’re able to replace our existing desktops, which consume 118 watts of power per hour, with thin clients that only consume nine watts of power,” says Seitz.
Standardize on VMware technology
“We have a virtualization-first policy within our organization and we have standardized on VMware technology for that virtual infrastructure,” says Seitz. “All virtual machines from this point forward will be built on the VMware platform.”

HSBC

Benefits in Detail

141KW power saving from server demise and avoiding installing new servers
80KW in ESX infrastructure and new services
Farms provide capacity for 2,500 additional VMs
Alleviate critical issues and still able to deploy new services
51 racks worth of space

Indiana University, Kelly School of Business

“Stop living in the past and jump on board with the future. In 2001, we were testing applications with various browsers with VMware Workstation. It was an exceptional product in its infancy and, today, it’s the standard for long-term IT upgrades and infrastructure utilization.”

—Jared Beard, Associated Director of Information Technology Labs and Studies, Indiana University, Kelly School of Business

Benefits in Detail

Reduced power consumption by almost 70%
Reduced deployment time from up to 5 days to less than an hour
Increased CPU utilization from 1-3% up to 70%
Decreased physical server footprint by 85%
Drastically reduced the labor and hardware budget
Reduced debugging efforts
Increased customer service opportunities
Increased IT management flexibility
Saved money on additional hardware purchases

Interior Health

“Interior Health embarked on virtualizing applications as a reliability and space-saving strategy, but we subsequently discovered another huge advantage: energy savings. Virtualization is an excellent way to reduce energy consumption quickly, efficiently, and at a reasonable cost.”

—Mal Griffin, CIO, Interior Health

Benefits in Detail

Currently 160 physical servers virtualized on 6 VMware ESX Servers
By end of 2008 will have 250 servers on 7 new VMware ESX Server—this will equate to 76% power savings for servers and 84% reduction in cooling requirements, which is estimated to save some $70,000 per year.
Won VMware’s 2007 Virtual Vanguard Award for energy savings
Improved datacenter efficiency, which enables systems administrators to manage hundreds of virtual machines within one program (VirtualCenter), including CPU, RAM, network connections and storage resources
Maximized utilization of both physical hardware and software licenses
Simplified and hastened cloning and procurement of new servers

Purdue University

“VMware has worked incredibly well, providing the level of reliability that we need to ensure the smooth administration of this course.”

—Carlin Smith, Director of Information Technology, Purdue University

Purdue University won a 2007 InfoWorld 100 Award for “shining examples of IT projects undertaken by tech leaders committed to pushing their organizations forward.”

InfoWorld wrote:

       Purdue University
       Server Virtualization
       Project Lead: Mike Rubesch, Director of IT Infrastructure Systems
       Project Description: Facing a space and resource crisis, Purdue University virtualized 140 servers onto three HP DL-585
       physical machines, reducing overall power usage by 84 percent. Taking up a tenth of its previous footprint, the VMware-based
       environment is expected to reduce facilities costs by $75,000 per year and hardware costs by $250,000 annually.
       Industry:Education

Qualcomm

“We are a VMware-first company. Our internal customers receive virtual machines as the rule. Our allocation model is based on resource needs, not server needs, and provisioning a physical server is the exception. As resource needs change, we add capacity through just-in-time hardware provisioning and retirement of unused virtual machines. In three years, our admin count in the Windows server group has remained flat while the OS-instance count has more than doubled. The only explanation is virtualization.”

—Paul Poppleton, Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm

Benefits in Detail

Avoided at least 360KW of power demand within major datacenters – this equates to a savings of $757K of power expenses
Avoided nearly $20M in hardware and datacenter costs

WCM Investment Management

“We saw the ways that ESX Server could help us significantly consolidate our servers, and in doing so, reduce our power consumption and air-conditioning requirements. Really, it’s been our salvation.”

—Tom Rydzeski, System Administrator, WCM Investment Management

Benefits in Detail

Reduce utility costs by at least 10% “From our perspective, however,” says Rydzeski, “the ‘dollars and cents’ aspect is less important than the fact that it has kept us from maxing out the utility limitations at our datacenter.”
Achieved 6:1 server consolidation ratio
“Using VMware technology, we can place as many as 12 virtual machines on a single server and still have plenty of space and plenty of system resources,” says Rydzeski.
Save thousands of dollars in hardware costs
“Rather than buying new equipment, we can make better use of the hardware we already have by deploying virtual machines,” says Rydzeski. “That saves us thousands of dollars each year.”