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IBM Business Partner, System-x (xseries) server, System-p5 (pseries) servers, AMD Opteron, BladeServers, storage, software and IBM Linux solutions from Q Associates UK
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 VMware conducted a study of five different types of companies that have realized significant reductions in their TCO using VMware server software.
Using a server TCO model to categorize and measure costs, our analysis shows that VMware server software helped these companies realize:
- Hardware cost reductions ranging from 28 to 53%
- Operations cost reductions ranging from 72 to 79%
- Overall cost reductions ranging from 29 to 64%
Customer Value Proposition
- Consolidating idle server and storage resources and re-deploying those resources on new projects
- Increasing efficiency in operations
- Improving server management and mobility
- Improving service levels by providing zero-downtime maintenance
- Standardizing environments and improving security
- Decreasing recovery time in disaster situations
- Enabling high availability with less redundancy
- Adapting more efficiently to dynamic business requirements
- Advanced backup strategies
- Reducing costs in technical support and training
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