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March 7, 2008
How Hobsons EMT Benefits from Server Virtualization

Hobsons EMT, which provides customizable, Web-based software solutions for higher education, is using server virtualization to enhance its data center efficiency and increase service levels while reducing power and cooling and cutting costs in the process. Patrick McFadin, director of engineering, spoke recently to InfoWorld about how Hobsons is using server virtualization, why they selected Virtual Iron over VMware and lessons learned about best practices for implementation. Links to the podcast are available here.

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March 19, 2008
Server Virtualization - 7 Mini Case Studies

SearchServerVirtualization posted a Podcast on their site highlighting how seven of Virtual Iron's rapidly growing family of customers are deploying Virtual Iron to reduce their capital and operating expenses and improve their ability to better align their IT operations with their business goals.

The customers featured in this podcast are a diverse group, representing a broad set of industries and business models, including professional services, health care delivery, retail, software as a service (SaaS), ecommerce, media and publishing and IT services. They can be found across the US, Canada and Europe. Some are well known, some are not. They range from one person, Windows–only IT shops running iSCSI SAN arrays and a limited number of workloads in test and staging environments to large, sophisticated IT departments running a variety of Windows Server and Linux OS guests and a broad range of demanding workloads in production environments with mixed Fiber Channel and iSCSI SAN arrays.

Despite the wide variances outlined above, these organizations all have something very fundamental in common – a strong desire to take full advantage of the well-documented operational and economic benefits of server virtualization in a way that is both affordable and easy to manage. The Podcast is available here. Please note that it sits on a third-party site and does require registration. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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