Aternity Streamlines Software Testing and Deployment with VMware

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"As a startup software company focused on meeting the broad needs of the Fortune 1000, it's important for us to maximize our hardware investments. VMware software allows us to get maximum productivity out of our IT infrastructure-and it lets us do so very easily. The software is incredibly straightforward." Eden ShochatCTO, VP Strategic Planning, Aternity, Inc.
K E Y H I G H L I G H T S Aternity, Inc.i n d u s t r y : t e c h n o l o g y Aternity, Inc. is the leader in Frontline Performance Intelligence for Global 1000 enterprises. Aternity arms business managers and IT departments with precise information on how Frontline users' experi-ences impact business results, and gives them a path to constant business improvement.Two of the biggest challenges Aternity faces as a software developer C H A L L E N G E are: 1) testing its software in different IT environments; and 2) deploy-Reduce time required for software development and ing its software at customer sites. "A lot of companies have rules solution deployment in diverse IT environments against outside hardware," says Eden Shochat, CTO and vice president of strategic planning at Aternity. "So, if we were planning to run our S O L U T I O N software on a server that we'd brought to the customer site, we could VMware Server and VMware Infrastructure 3 allow be out of luck-they might require us to go through a formal server software to be tested and deployed on ready-to-run acquisition process, which can take weeks."virtual machines, streamlining processes. Fortunately, VMware software was able to address both these chal-V M w a r e a t W o r k lenges. Using VMware Server, Aternity is able to streamline software VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring: development and testing at its overseas test lab in Israel. Being able .ESX Server 3 with VMFS to easily create multiple environments with different operating . High Availability systems on the same server saves them having to make a large invest-. Distributed Resource Scheduling ment in an overseas data center. Additionally, solution deployments . VirtualCenter 2 at customer sites are much quicker, thanks to VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware Server which allows Aternity to easily push out solutions to customers.
d e p l o y m e n t e n v i r o n m e n t Results. ESX Server running on IBM Dual Core, Dual Processor X3650. IBM Blade System, featuring 12 . Achieved 4-to-1 server consolidation. "We'd need 40 physical Blades and 3TB of SAN storage machines to accomplish what we're currently accomplishing with . Guest operating systems: Windows 2003 Server, 10 machines and VMware software," says Shochat. "Avoiding those Windows XP, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4 hardware costs allows us to focus more resources on our core . Applications: Aternity's Web-based applications, business."including its performance monitoring software . Reduced time required for solution deployments by days. "Rather than dragging a physical server to a customer site, I can produce a VMware image in our environment, hand it off to the customer and have our solution up and running in 25 minutes," says Shochat. "That streamlines the deployment process by many hours, if not days.". Chopped rack space costs in half. "When it comes to rack space, the goal is to keep only as much as you need, and no more," says Shochat. "If we didn't have VMware software, we'd need to double our rack space, at a cost of several thousand dollars per rack."
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