“The migration took one day and we have reduced costs dramatically. Each server would have cost $70,000.00 and we would have required a minimum of five core servers for the new environment. Conversely the cost to migrate was a fraction of the price at just $3000.00 a month.”

"Scalable and highly available cloud-based infrastructure is a necessity for our business to succeed. Partnering with VMware and Hosting.com to build and deploy solutions for our customers provides us with the flexibility we can rely on to meet rapidly changing infrastructure needs. With solutions designed for the VMware virtual platform …

"Following a number of assessments, the platform of choice became increasingly clear, and VMware was chosen as the virtualization platform for our business.”

"VMware virtual desktops are the answer to so many issues: supporting remote locations without adding IT staff, allowing faculty mobility and flexibility, and meeting all users’ need to run resource-heavy applications."

"Cloud computing was the exact solution we were looking for. Often times, you build an infrastructure and then find that your assessment of on-demand needs are way off."

"Our virtualized environment delivers significant cost savings and allows us to improve performance and service delivery at the same time. Normally, these two things don’t go together — service or performance generally take a hit when you’re trying to reduce costs. In our VMware environment, we’re able to do both, …

"Our relationship with SMP and the staff there has been critical from back in 2006-2007, when we began adopting server virtualization. With a new technology, you try to bring in a new environment. There are learning and assimilation curves. To get the value out of that, to get the bang …

"A marginal investment in VMware technology can result in huge gains in terms of productivity or competitive advantage—and having Intel technology helps ensure that you can get the most out of the investment you make."

"While most organizations were focusing on the recent economic crisis, Lone Star took calculated bold steps to build the technology infrastructure to support our vision of becoming the nation’s premier community college system. VMware provides flexibility and high availability while reducing operational costs."

"VMware vSphere technology not only enabled a highly reliable server infrastructure, it also allowed us to save enough money on our servers that we could move to the next step, a VMware View virtual desktop deployment. VMware virtualization therefore became a core technology that opened new doors, including opportunities to …

"There are so many over-hyped products out there that do their job but never really meet your expectations. VMware vSphere is one of those rare products that actually exceed expectations. It definitely delivers on the promise."

"This change has really improved the quality of education. It's been a wonderful experience, and I can't tell you how many times a week teacher’s tell me how much they enjoy the new system and all the capabilities they get, thanks to VMware."

"The vSphere upgrade was so smooth that the users had no idea it was being done. There were no outages, no problems at all. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from users since upgrading to vSphere. The most significant benefits include faster server provisioning and simplified IT management, such …

"We need to implement tools that allow us to provide a high level of service with a small IT staff. Desktop virtualization lets us push applications out quickly and efficiently to transform the way students and faculty access and share information."

"By rehearsing our SAP upgrade on a VMware private cloud hosted by Texperts, we eliminated the chance that the upgrade would put our business operations at risk. Virtualizing our SAP environment has also reduced our capital and operating costs, improved availability, and simplified disaster recovery."