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Published on: March 01, 2009
Type of content: CASE STUDY
Format: Unknown
Length: 8 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
In Le Mars, Iowa, Wells' Dairy produces ice cream and frozen desserts under the Blue Bunny brand. As the company faces a challenging market, the IT department aims to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It turned to virtualization, but its original solution from Microsoft couldn't virtualize 64-bit operating systems, which capped server consolidation efforts and limited test environments. Wells' Dairy ultimately deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs. The IT staff is virtualizing critical applications in the production environment using clustering for high availability and is offering efficient, cost-effective virtualized test services.