RSSDoing the Math on Virtualization
One IT director breaks down the savings that he reaped from a server revamp and technology from VMware and Vizioncore.
Vizioncore cost $600 per server license, and Lextron uses it for 26 critical servers. "Twenty-six times $600 is less than $15,000," he says. "So it's another area where we just said, 'Why wouldn't we spend this money?'"
In the end, virtualization was just a no-brainer for Lextron. "I got more productivity from my staff, I got better utilization of the equipment that I had, I got a better return on the invested capital for equipment, and I reduced power and cooling costs," Hays says. He notes those benefits came on top of the savings he got in the first place, by buying the four servers and VI3 to replace 40 servers. "It was easy math."
Joanne Cummings is a freelance writer in North Andover, Mass. She can be reached at jocummings@comcast.net.
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