Data Center White Papers
Microsoft Virtualization: Data Center to Desktop Customer Solution Case Study
Overview Based in Le Mars, Iowa, Wells' Dairy is largest family-owned and operated ice cream manufacturer in the United States. Wells' Dairy wanted to optimize its growing data center operations, improve business continuity, and build more agile IT infrastructure to support the company in challenging economic times. Wells' Dairy deployed a virtualization solution centered on Windows Server® 2008 Datacenter and Hyper-V™ to consolidate hardware, virtualize critical applications, and support a disaster recovery center. Learn more about the solution and benefits, including a building a "green" data center, savings on licensing costs, and enhanced business agility, manageability and continuity.
| Publisher | Microsoft | File Format | WORD |
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| Date Published | March 2009 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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