VMware Helps Orthopedic Clinic Virtualize Applications, Reduce IT Overhead

Helping Campbell clinic save big on server-related expenses, VMware,  a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, has deployed VMware Infrastructure 3 at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics (Campbell Clinic), a center of orthopedic teaching and practice. The clinic will look to create a flexible, easily administered virtual infrastructure with this deployment.

 

Campbell Clinic was able to quickly deploy the VMware Infrastructure 3 solution in just three days with the help of VMware Partner Meridian IT, based in Deerfield, IL. This offers a seamless transition from a physical to a virtual infrastructure. With this, the company could immediately start virtualizing mission-critical Microsoft (News - Alert) applications like Exchange, Sharepoint, and SQL Server. As an independent solutions company, Meridian IT provides customers with an unparalleled range of choices and solution flexibility by bringing together the vast resources of the best manufacturers in the industry.

 

The Campbell Clinic is one of thousands of SMBs that utilize VMware’s proven and reliable cost-effective solutions to optimize their existing IT investments. VMware provides the scalability and flexibility for customers to evolve their virtualization solutions as their business needs grow and buy what they need.

 

Campbell Clinic had faced the dilemma of either replacing its servers entirely with physical boxes, or utilizing a combination of hardware and software to create a virtual infrastructure, when its server infrastructure was due for a technology refresh. Campbell Clinic decided that VMware Infrastructure 3 suite was the best in the lot and opted for the same.

 

With the Virtualization of its mission-critical applications, Campbell Clinic is able to reduce its physical server count by 58 percent and consolidate its servers onto a relatively small number of ESX hypervisors. This consolidation will help the clinic to save more than $100,000 in hardware purchases, power and cooling costs, and administration time over the next three years.

 

“We’re primarily a Microsoft environment and we knew that Windows and Microsoft apps have a proven track record of running on VMware,” said Justin Lauer, IT Manager, Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics. “That made the selection process rather simple — we really didn’t have to spend too much time evaluating different virtualization vendors because VMware is so far ahead of the competition, in terms of the maturity of their product.”