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    Sometimes you just have to buy new servers. That's the conclusion Computer Science Corporation came to after repeated issues with its aging infrastructure. Replacing the servers became a real possibility after repeated problems with old servers that were causing numerous IT issues. CSC had to do something. The company, based in Barcelona, Spain, does strategic consulting work for industry and government with a focus on the use of advanced technologies to help make a profit. As a result, the issue with the old servers was not just a technological one but a strategic one, too.

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    Sometimes you just have to buy new servers. That's the conclusion Computer Science Corporation came to after repeated issues with its aging infrastructure. Replacing the servers became a real possibility after repeated problems with old servers that were causing numerous IT issues. CSC had to do something. The company, based in Barcelona, Spain, does strategic consulting work for industry and government with a focus on the use of advanced technologies to help make a profit. As a result, the issue with the old servers was not just a technological one but a strategic one, too.

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    Sometimes You Just Have To Buy New Servers

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    Sometimes you just have to buy new servers. That's the conclusion Computer Science Corporation came to after repeated issues with its aging infrastructure. Replacing the servers became a real possibility after repeated problems with old servers that were causing numerous IT issues. CSC had to do something. The company, based in Barcelona, Spain, does strategic consulting work for industry and government with a focus on the use of advanced technologies to help make a profit. As a result, the issue with the old servers was not just a technological one but a strategic one, too.

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    INDUSTRY High Tech

    I Customer Snapshot
    “Using Intel-based servers and the VMware
    Infrastructure 3 platform has helped us totally transform
    our client’s IT infrastructure. We’re very happy with the
    results, and needless to say, the client is as well.”

    Roberto Sainz Pando


    Wintel Systems Engineer,
    Computer Sciences Corporation
    HIGHLIGHTS
    CHALLENGE
     lobal Consulting Firm Relies on VMware and
    G
    Increase the reliability of a client’s aging
    physical IT infrastructure Intel to Overhaul IT for Fortune 500 Companies
    SOLUTION A leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company, Computer Sciences Corporation

    VMware® and Intel technology creates (CSC) provides customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their strategic goals that
    a virtual infrastructure that increases enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.
    performance, stability, and availability
    while simplifying administration From its offices in Barcelona, Spain, CSC was able to put these principles into practice when handling an IT
    consulting project for a well-known Fortune 500 manufacturing company. “The company had dozens of very
    VMWARE AND INTEL AT WORK
    old servers which were making IT administration a nightmare,” says Roberto Sainz Pando, a wintel systems
    VMware® Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring:
    • ESX Server 3
    engineer at CSC. “Every week we had an outage, a server that needed to be replaced, or complaints from the
    °° Dell
     PowerEdge 2950 servers with Intel users—all the problems that you can imagine from old hardware.”
    Xeon processors attached to IBM SAN
    • VirtualCenter 2 Rather than continue putting up with the headaches of this aging physical infrastructure, CSC decided
    • VMotion™ to purchase brand new servers with the latest Intel Xeon processors and run VMware Infrastructure 3 on top
    • Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
    of it, as a way to virtualize and consolidate servers. “We converted those old boxes into virtual machines,
    • High Availability (HA)
    and voila!—we have performance, stability, easy maintenance, and high availability,” says Pando. “Together,

    DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT VMware and Intel have made our lives much, much easier.”

    • Guest operating systems: Windows 2000,


    Windows 2003, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5

    • V irtualized Applications: Proprietary


    software applications with SQL and
    Oracle backends

    RESULTS
    Reduce hardware incidents by 89 Free up IT resources to focus on Save thousands of dollars in
    percent. “The difference between other areas. “The stability that our hardware costs. “The P2V project
    our old physical infrastructure combined VMware/Intel solution has already generated significant
    and our new virtual infrastructure provides gives our engineers time to hardware savings, and we estimate
    running on Intel-powered servers think strategically about developing that these savings will only grow
    is night and day,” says Pando. new projects and increasing global over the next three years, as we
    “Hardware incidents have dropped performance, rather than constantly add more virtual machines to the
    by 89 percent.” putting out fires and fixing broken cluster,” says Pando.
    servers,” says Pando.

    Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware
    products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents.

    VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein
    may be trademarks of their respective companies. The Foundation of Virtualization

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