Overview of v cloud case studies

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Overview of vCloud case studies
This document presents an overview of case studies published on www.vmware.com
Ashmi Chokshi. Product Marketing Team, VMware, Inc.
Date: Apr 2012

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Case study: Datacenter focus: Financial services-as-as-service
Customer: NYSE Euronext
Challenge:
• NYSE Euronext’s global
customers focusing on
infrastructure rather than
core business of analytics
• Lack of NYSE data feed
uptake due to challenge of
integrating it
VMware Solution:
• vCloud Director for
self-service access to
on-demand computing
and integrated market
data
• Delivered as a service
to global capital market
Benefits:
• Increased NYSE
revenue due to easy uptake
of its market data
• Improved end-customer
competitiveness due to
focus on core business
Before After

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Case Study: Datacenter focus – Database-as-a-Service cloud
Customer: Oxford University, UK (VIDaaS initiative)
VMware Solution:
• Shared, multi-tenant
infrastructure using vCloud
Director replaces desktops
under researchers’ desks
• Security with VMware
vShield
• Capacity expansion to
Colt for hybrid cloud
Before
Challenge:
• Delayed research
projects due to months
required to set up
databases
• High hardware costs
• Lack of data
management and
curation
Benefits:
• Accelerated startup of
research projects to
minutes
• Reduced hardware
costs
• Accelerated innovation
via controlled data
sharing
After
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Case study: Project focus – Self-service datacenter
Customer: Groupo Adeo – Adeo Services (European retailer)
VMware Solution:
• Shared self-service
test/dev infrastructure
using VMware
vSphere, vCloud
Director, vCenter
Capacity IQ
Challenge:
• Delays of as much as 2
weeks to get pre-configured
development and test
environments
• Capacity issues due to
long-lived resources
Before
Benefits:
• Preconfigured
development and test
environments available
in 15 minutes with self-
service
• Increased productivity
for system
administrators
After

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Case Study: Elastic Capacity Expansion
Customer: Intercontinental Hotels
VMware Solution:
• vCloud Director for on
premise infrastructure
• vCloud Datacenter
Services using Verizon
Before
Challenge:
• Holiday season
creates spike demand
for applications
• Average demand is
lower than maximum
during holidays
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Benefits:
• Meet SLA for max
demand without large
capital investment
• Application portability
for future flexibility
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Other examples
 Experian: Self-service provisioning for agile development environments
 Dublin Bay Power: Production private cloud with security and disaster
recovery
 And many others

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Case study: Project focus – Self-service datacenter
Customer: Siemens IT Solutions & Services
VMware Solution:
• Shared self-service
test/dev infrastructure
using vCloud Director
• (Ongoing) On-demand
secure, multi-tenant,
SLA-sensitive services
with vCloud Director,
vShield, Chargeback
Challenge:
• Local pools of
underutilized, custom
infrastructure
• Manual provisioning of
servers for software
testing and on-demand
applications
Before
Benefits:
• Reduction in hardware
purchasing
• Increased time-to-
market
After

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Case study: Interactive lab/demo
Customer: Airline software company
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Before
Challenge:
• Sales staff relied on
static PPT demos to
sell software products
• Only moderate sales
conversion
VMware Solution:
• Product demos
created as templates
in vCloud Director
• Salespeople could
deploy interactive
demos on-demand
Benefits:
• Time to demo & close
sales was accelerated
• Demo interactivity
enabled better
messaging &
increased sales
After

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Case Study: Datacenter Consolidation
Customer: Multinational Conglomerate
VMware Solution:
• Shared infrastructure
using vCloud Director
• Load balancing using
vSphere DRS
Before
Challenge:
• Multiple BUs with
underutilized
infrastructure
• Multiple IT teams
without coordination
Benefits:
• Reduction in hardware
purchasing needs
• Centralized,
coordinated shared IT
services team
After
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