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Global ConsultinG Firm relies on Vmware andintel to oVerhaul it For Fortune 500 Companies

A leadin lobal consultin , systems inte ration and outsourcin company, Computer Sciences Corpo

(CSC) provides customers in industry and overnment with solutions cra ted to meet their strate ic oa

enable them to proft rom the advanced use o technolo y.

From its o fces in Barcelona, Spain, CSC was able to put these principles into practice when handlin

consultin project or a well-known Fortune 500 manu acturin company. The company had dozens

old servers which were makin IT administration a ni htmare, says Roberto Sainz Pando, a wintel sys

en ineer at CSC. Every week we had an outa e, a server that needed to be replaced, or complaints rom

usersall the problems that you can ima ine rom old hardware.

Rather than continue puttin up with the headaches o this a in physical in rastructure, CSC de

to purchase brand new servers with the latest Intel Xeon processors and run VMware In rastructure 3 on

o it, as a way to virtualize and consolidate servers. We converted those old boxes into virtual machi

and voila!we have per ormance, stability, easy maintenance, and hi h availability, says Pando. To e

VMware and Intel have made our lives much, much easier.

ICustomer SnapshotUsing Intel-based servers and the VMware

Infrastructure 3 platform has helped us totally transformour clients IT infrastructure. Were very happy with the

results, and needless to say, the client is as well.

Roberto Sainz PandoWintel Systems Engineer,

Computer Sciences Corporation

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HIGHLIGHTS

CHALLENGE

Increase the reliability o a clients a inphysical IT in rastructure

SOLUTION

VMware and Intel technolo y createsa virtual in rastructure that increasesper ormance, stability, and availabilitywhile simpli yin administration

VMWARE AND INTEL AT WORK

VMware In rastructure 3 Enterprise, eaturin :ESX Server 3

Dell PowerEd e 2950 servers with IntelXeon processors attached to IBM SAN

VirtualCenter 2

VMotion

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Hi h Availability (HA)

DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT

guest operatin systems: Windows 2000,Windows 2003, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5

Virtualized Applications: Proprietaryso tware applications with SQL andOracle backends

RESULTS Reduce hardware incidents by 89percent. The di erence betweenour old physical in rastructureand our new virtual in rastructurerunnin on Intel-powered serversis ni ht and day, says Pando.Hardware incidents have droppedby 89 percent.

Free up IT resources to ocus onother areas. The stability that ourcombined VMware/Intel solutionprovides ives our en ineers time tothink strate ically about developinnew projects and increasin lobalper ormance, rather than constantlyputtin out fres and fxin brokenservers, says Pando.

Save thousands o dollars hardware costs. The P2V projhas already enerated si nifcahardware savin s, and we estimathat these savin s will only roover the next three years, as wadd more virtual machines to tcluster, says Pando.

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