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Hosting Company Expands Services and Reduces Costs With Server Virtualization

Category: Software and Web Development, Servers and Server OS

Tags: windows server 2008, windows server, server, management, applications

Overview Hostbasket is a Belgian hosting company that strives to keep its services fresh, innovative, and price-competitive. With success and growth, the company acquired a burgeoning number of servers, which required significant staff time to deploy and maintain. Hostbasket turned to virtualization to reduce its servers and server management workload. Using the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, Hostbasket plans to create 300 virtual machines and retire 60 physical servers. More importantly, Hostbasket can quickly create new offerings, giving customers more options and greater control over their hosted applications. Hostbasket uses Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to simplify server setup and management. Because Hostbasket can better utilize its servers, it earns higher margins from virtual machines and increases customer application uptime.

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Publisher: Microsoft
File Format: WORD
Date Published: Oct 11, 2008
Format: Case Studies
Topics: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Application Servers

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