EDS - VMWare Case Studies Success Story

Found a whole bunch of case study success stories for the implementation of VMWare ESX server and this particular one caught my eye as this company is quite big in Australia and manages many big international companies as well.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/apac_au_07Q4_cs_vmw_eds_english.pdf

Basically the company EDS is one of the world’s largest IT services businesses, with a global
client list that includes General Motors, UK Ministry of Defence and Kraft Foods. Australian customers include the Australian Taxation Office, Westpac Banking Corporation, Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The company maintains an Australian workforce of more than 6,000 and its portfolio of off erings includes business process outsourcing, information technology outsourcing and application services.

Why this particular case study is so interesting is how they are using server virtualisation to create virtual servers etc for there own customers needs, and on a huge scale with many benefits in cost reduction, speed to market, greenhouse gas emissions reduction etc in a small amount of time.

Desktop virtualisation

Well it seems like desktop virtualisation is becoming the new hottest IT trend at the moment for virtualisation. Basically IT administrators are turning to this technology to help simplify management, improve ROI, accelerate provisioning of new machines, and achieve better security and compliance.

According to an article on ZDNet 19 percent of business are planning at rolling out this technology in the next year or so 2011.

http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=2112035&promo=100303

Server virtualisation and the takeup of this technology

Seems like virtualisation especially server virtualisation is really becoming mainstream and pretty much all organisations are looking at implementing some type of virtualisation. Be it in development or full production virtual machines.

Here is an interesting article i found that looks at the stats of virtualisation

• 86 percent of respondents are involved in exploring, testing or usingvirtualization technology.
• The largest portion of respondents (40 percent) will approach server virtualization by implementing a standalone pilot, with success creating the case for the production environment.
• The most important criteria when selecting a server virtualization solution are hardware reduction and infrastructure manageability.
• The two biggest hurdles to overcome when implementing server virtualization are lack of staff expertise and identifying applications that are unaffected by virtualization. This latter hurdle is most problematic to large organizations.
• The top three objectives for implementing virtualization in the production environment are improving disaster recovery, lowering administrative costs and immediate hardware and software savings.

http://www.virtualiqsolutions.com/docs/INS%20WP.pdf