AIC Reduces Costs and Boosts Productivity with VMware Infrastructure 3

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"As a CTO, I have to validate every IT dollar spent and demonstrate that our IT purchases are adding value to the business. That's the great thing about VMware technology: the cost savings and business-level benefits are so straightforward, that it's really a no-brainer." Sam StravatoCTO, AIC, Ltd.
K E Y H I G H L I G H T S AIC, Ltd.i n d u s t r y : f i n a n c e AIC, Ltd. (AIC) is Canada's largest privately held mutual fund company. Since its founding in 1985, the company has grown to manage approximately $10 billion in assets and features a growing portfolio of mutual funds, segregated funds and corporate class funds.From an IT perspective, AIC needed to bring in more and more hardware to support the increasing number of transactions that the C H A L L E N G E firm was handling as it expanded. This led to an ever-increasing data Shrink data center footprint and manage IT infra- center footprint, as well as the associated costs: power, cooling and structure more effectively. maintenance, to name a few areas.
S O L U T I O N With the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, AIC has been able to handily address its IT challenges and create a scalable, manageable IT infra-VMware technology enables enterprise-class per- structure. "With lots of technologies, you have to wait two or three formance while saving space, reducing costs and years after you've implemented it before you really see an ROI," says increasing productivity. Sam Stravato, CTO at AIC. "That's not the case with VMware technol-V M w a r e a t W o r k ogy. We were able to see savings right off the bat, by shrinking our . VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring: data center footprint from 175 boxes down to four boxes. And more o ESX Server 3 with VMFS importantly, it makes us better suited to future growth: we can scale easily and create virtual machines as needed, in a matter of minutes." o VirtualCenter 2 o VMotion o Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Results o High Availability (HA) . Save $400,000 per year. "If we had stayed with a physical server d e p l o y m e n t e n v i r o n m e n t environment instead of a virtual environment, the costs would easily run $400,000 per year-factoring in the hardware, the maintenance . IBM x366 servers with 4 dual-core processors and 24 Gigs of RAM, attached to IBM DS4400 SAN with 6 costs and the salaries for three additional full-time employees," says Terabytes of Disk space Stravato.. Guest operating systems: Windows Server 2003, . Reduce administrative work by 70 percent. "I'd rather have my Windows Server 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, employees spend their time on innovation than on procuring and Linux configuring servers," says Stravato. "Using VMware software to create . Applications: Great Plains, Exchange, Web servers, print servers, file servers, AWD imaging software, virtual machines on the fly has reduced that type of administrative Citrix, Remedy, Pivitol, SQL Servers work by 70 percent, freeing up my employees to concentrate on more value-driven areas.". Double IT productivity without increasing headcount. "We have less IT employees than we did five years ago, and yet we're managing twice as many applications," says Stravato. "That's thanks to VMware technology."
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