Have you gone through an audit of your data center? Trying to come up with cost saving ideas and sources of efficiency? Want to get the most out of your underutilized hardware? Are you thinking of virtualizing your data center? That is exactly the problem and solution chosen by many companies in the recent months. The question becomes, how do I go about it? Read about how one company did it, AXA Tech, and how they did it with ease with the help of VMware virtualization and PlateSpin PowerConvert.

Quoting from InformationWeek:

"Armed with a complete picture of the data center landscape, AXA Tech chose PlateSpin PowerConvert to automate the process. PowerConvert would remotely migrate the software layer on their dedicated physical servers in Shibuya to the VMware virtual infrastructure in Melbourne and Shirokane. PlateSpin leverages its patent pending OS Portability technology to decouple the software layer (data, applications, and operating systems) from the hardware and stream it over a network to the destination of choice - physical servers, virtual machines, blade servers, or image archives. With a simple drag-and-drop, AXA Tech was able to remotely stream the data, applications, and operating systems from the dedicated hardware in Shibuya, to multi-use VMware ESX servers in Melbourne and Shirokane. On-the-fly, PlateSpin PowerConvert was also used to remotely right-size the destination servers to match resources with the new workload needs."

Posted by David Marshall on April 13, 2006 04:55 AM