Virtualization Case Study

The Challenge

After a series of acquisitions, a commercial client with 300 employees across five locations nationwide found itself with redundant technology including hardware, software, and applications. The client needed to reduce their IT operating expense and improve system availability, security, flexibility and reliability.

The Haverstick Approach

Haverstick analyzed the current state of the infrastructure to identify the virtualization opportunities by assessing the performance of mission critical applications on existing hardware. Haverstick utilized server Virtualization to consolidate hardware and improve the scalability of applications.

The Results

The outcome of this Virtualization initiative allowed the client to drive more efficiency out of the resources they had and reducing capital costs and software costs, resulting in Increased response times to needs of the business.

Measurable improvements included:

• System availability increased from 98.5% to 99.9%
• Reduction in server count of 25%, which translated into a reduction of server administrative costs of approximately 31%
• Server build times reduced by 75%

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