Real World Savings With Virtualization
Continue Reading February 13th, 2009 Jason Armstrong
During the course of a corporate portal upgrade project, we were able to reduce the new hardware budget by 50% of the original estimate. We were also able to reduce the customer’s original software licensing and support costs by 50% of their previous operating environment while creating four new additional operating environments — three of which were clustered. This was done by leveraging Solaris 10 zones and sub-capacity licensing.
This project was proof that virtualization is becoming more important, especially in tough economic times. People are being asked to do more with less, IT managers are being asked to cut budgets while at the same time delivering value to the organization. When people talk about virtualization these days, VMWare is what typically comes to mind first. Although, there are several other virtualization options available. Here’s a story about how we were able to achieve significant cost savings for one of our customers in 2008.
