Enterprise Physical-to-Virtual Server Virtualization Project Saves Company over $10M Annually.
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This $13billion, multi-national business information company has over 55,000 employeesin more than 100 countries. In the last five years, revenues were increasing7 to 8% annually. While this is great news, the company was experiencing storage capacity doubling annually, servers crawling across the datacenter taking up space and an enormous power and cooling expense every month.
Headquartered in St. Michael, MN, J&B Group is a family-owned perishable production and distribution company. The company offers retail and food service customers a combination of wholesaling, branded products, customer food service cutting, cold storage, and transportation of meat, poultry, and deli food products. J&B Group’s premium offerings include No Name Steaks ® and Midwest Pride ® products. (
Organic Valley is a leading organic brand and America's largest organic farmers' cooperative. Organized in 1988, Organic Valley represents over 1,340 farmers in the United States and Canada. Independent and farmer-owned, Organic Valley achieved revenues of $526 million in 2008. Focused on its founding mission of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a variety of organic foods sold nationwide in supermarkets, natural foods stores, and food cooperatives. Organic Valley farmers also produce a full range of organic meat under the Organic Prairie Family of Farms label. (Source: www.organicvalley.coop)
The City of Eden Prarie, Minnesota, is home to more than 62,000 people and about 2,200 businesses, including the Minnesota Vikings National Football League franchise. Located just southwest of the Minneapolis‐St.Paul metro area, the city boasts 4,500 acres of open space, including parks, lakes, and 200 miles of trails. Recognized on Money magazine's list of America's "best Places to Live," Eden Prairie offers attractive neighborhoods, affordable housing, excellent schools, dozens of hotels and award winning restaurants, and a superregional shopping center. (www.edenprarie.org)
The City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota has much to brag about. In addition to its success in attracting new business to the area, Sioux Falls has been consistently ranked one of the most tax‐friendly U.S. cities to live in and retire to. Forbes Magazine also designated it one of the top cities in which to find a new job. Such accolades have led to major growth in the city's population, now over 154,000 people, as well as in the city services and infrastructure needed to support them. By default, the City of Sioux Falls Central Services Department—and its 20‐person IT staff—was forced to find more budget‐conscious, effi‐cient ways to support the growing data and application needs of the 22 departments and 1,100 city employees now under its care. "We're like a whole bunch of different com‐panies all in one," said Monte Watembach, the city's data center supervisor and one of the small IT staff that supports departments as diverse as the city clerk's office, library, health department, city parks, public works, and police and fire departments.