Microsoft Virtualization: Data Center to Desktop Customer Solution Case Study €1.5 Appliance Manufacturer Saves Million with Global Virtualization Solution “Even after five years of building up our VMware Overview Country or Region: Germany environment, the cost savings and integrated Industry: Manufacturing management tools inherent in a Microsoft solution Customer Profile justified a total migration to Hyper-V.” Headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany, Miele & Cie has manufactured household Egbert Fichtler, Head of IT Infrastructure, Miele appliances to a high standard since 1899. Miele & Cie is a manufacturer of premium household appliances It employs more than 16,000 people worldwide. that are distributed worldwide. To reduce server sprawl and data center costs, Miele had deployed a large virtualization solution Business Situation With more than 800 physical servers in its based on VMware. However, to expand its virtualized two data centers and global subsidiaries, environment, the company evaluated and then deployed a Miele turned to virtualization to help reduce costs and power consumption. Microsoft solution based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with Hyper-V technology and managed with Solution When Microsoft released Windows Microsoft System Center products. So far, Miele has migrated Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V 200 virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V, and plans to virtualization technology and Live Migration, Miele decided to migrate its migrate 350 more by mid 2011. To date, Miele estimates saving entire virtualized environment from €1.5 million (approximately U.S.$1.8 million) with global VMware to the Microsoft solution. virtualization on hardware by decreasing physical server needs Benefits by more than 50 percent and by improving administrators’ Saved 30 percent on licensing costs Reduced hardware costs by 50 percent productivity and reducing licensing costs. Improved data center management
Microsoft Virtualization: Data Center to Desktop Customer Solution Case Study Appliance Manufacturer Saves €1.5 Million with Global Virtualization Solution Overview Country or Region: Germany Industry: Manufacturing Customer Profile Headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany, Miele & Cie has manufactured household appliances to a high standard since 1899. It employs more than 16,000 people worldwide. Business Situation With more than 800 physical servers in its two data centers and global subsidiaries, Miele turned to virtualization to help reduce costs and power consumption. Solution When Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtualization technology and Live Migration, Miele decided to migrate its entire virtualized environment from VMware to the Microsoft solution. Benefits Saved 30 percent on licensing costs Reduced hardware costs by 50 percent Improved data center management “Even after five years of building up our VMware environment, the cost savings and integrated management tools inherent in a Microsoft solution justified a total migration to Hyper-V.” Egbert Fichtler, Head of IT Infrastructure, Miele Miele & Cie is a manufacturer of premium household appliances that are distributed worldwide. To reduce server sprawl and data center costs, Miele had deployed a large virtualization solution based on VMware. However, to expand its virtualized environment, the company evaluated and then deployed a Microsoft solution based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with Hyper-V technology and managed with Microsoft System Center products. So far, Miele has migrated 200 virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V, and plans to migrate 350 more by mid 2011. To date, Miele estimates saving €1.5 million (approximately U.S.$1.8 million) with global virtualization on hardware by decreasing physical server needs by more than 50 percent and by improving administrators’ productivity and reducing licensing costs.
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