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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Businesses using software from virtualization solutions developer VMware (www.vmware.com) are drastically lowering their operational expenditures by up to $1,000 per server, and letting them deploy applications faster, according to new, independent research.
"Reducing OpEx with Virtualization and Virtual Systems Management," a whitepaper prepared for VMware by ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (www.enterprisemanagement.com), quantifies how customers have been able to reduce service failures, improve staff efficiency, speed up service deployment and reduce facility operation costs using VMware solutions.
EMA found VMware virtualization reduces the prevalence of service failures, fixing problems up to 24 times faster, eliminating up to 43 hours of downtime a year, and keeping uptime as high as 99.999 percent. It also reduces the impact, frequency, duration, and cost of service issues, troubleshooting, out-of-hours support, and productivity loss.
"VMware's ability to help customers dramatically reduce CapEx in the data center is well understood, and has been leveraged by hundreds of thousands of customers," VMware Server Business Unit product marketing vice president Bogomil Balkansky said in a statement. "It is OpEx cost reductions that have been the unsung heroes of virtualization."
VMware vSphere and the VMware vCenter Product Family help lower the day-to-day costs of running IT, enabling IT resources and budgets to be shifted from tactical maintenance to strategic projects that can create value for businesses.
EMA research vice president Andi Mann said saving money on OpEx is one of the most strategic opportunities for customers because it offers the potential to re-balance the cost structure of IT, shifting budgets from ongoing maintenance to innovation and business value.
"VMware vSphere enables customers to drive OpEx down through its sophisticated platform, enabling high performance and increased virtual machine densities and advanced features enabling availability and enhanced management," Mann said in a statement. "In developing a model for identifying, capturing and measuring OpEx improvements, we hope to provide customers with a valuable tool in achieving this critical business improvement."
EMA research's research also found that VMware improved staff efficiency, increasing the administrator efficiency by an average of 10 per cent by letting a single administrator manage as many as 1,800 servers. VMware customers also experience faster service deployment and reduced facility operation costs, allowing approximately half of all organizations studied to reduce both floor space/rent costs, and power consumption by an average of 16 per cent -- around $700,000 per year for a five megawatt data center.
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