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At First American, HP BladeSystem Makes One Out of Many

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Overview This Fortune 500 company, based in Santa Ana, California, is America's largest provider of business information, with 2007 revenues of approximately $8.2 billion. First American wanted to scale processing power to support growth and integrate acquired infrastructure while reducing complexity and total cost of ownership. First American consolidated and virtualized with VMware and HP BladeSystem.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard (HP)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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