White Papers

How Cisco IT Virtualizes Data Center Application Servers

Category: Data Management, Software and Web Development, Servers and Server OS

Tags: cost savings, server, applications, data

Overview Like many IT departments, Cisco IT historically dedicated a single server to each application or instance. However, this general approach has created an explosion in the number of servers to be purchased, deployed, and managed. By using Cisco technologies and other-vendor products, Cisco IT has created virtualized servers that run multiple applications on a single physical server. The change to virtualized servers is producing ongoing benefits for Cisco, including a cumulative US$10 million in cost savings and cost avoidance, lower demand for data center space and resources, and reduced server deployment effort and cycle time. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco IT's real-world experience in this area to help support similar enterprise needs.

By downloading you agree to our Terms and Conditions. These include information regarding use of your personal data.

Publisher: Cisco Systems
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Mar 5, 2008
Format: Case Studies
Topics: Virtualization, Data Center, Application Servers

Similiar White Papers

Westar Cuts Data Center Size by 50% and Power and Cooling Costs by 30% With a Server Virtualization Solution From Dell

Westar Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc. needed to streamline its data center to incorporate an acquisition approximately

Publisher: Dell | Tags: data, infrastructure, unified

Power Solutions Article: A Smart Path to Virtualization

As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How w

Publisher: Dell EqualLogic | Tags: data, infrastructure, server

Virtualization for Mission-Critical Applications White Paper: A Utility Approach to the Data Center

Today's server virtualization is only the first step in making IT less expensive, more flexible and more responsive to t

Publisher: Hewlett-Packard (HP) | Tags: database, infrastructure, server

Technical Report: Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V with PS Series Arrays

Server virtualization is a common practice is today's data centers for server consolidation, power reduction, rapid prov

Publisher: Dell EqualLogic | Tags: data, server, tco

VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking

VMware Infrastructure products provide the next generation virtual platform for the new data center, but they don't virt

Publisher: F5 Networks | Tags: data, network

Cisco Systems White Papers

Understanding Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s)

Featured white papers

The Value of Location Intelligence in the Communications Industry

Pitney Bowes

Public Services are under pressure, the challenge is to do more with less. How do you improve citizen satisfaction, increase cost efficiencies and improve service delivery? The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities...

Download now »
Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue

Citrix Online

Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language...

Download now »
HP print solutions and 3M

Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The objective for 3M was to optimize office printing infrastructure at 3M locations worldwide, reduce total cost and environmental footprint. Some of the business benefits acheived by switching to HP print solutions...

Download now »