Embotics V-Commander Automates Aston University's Private Cloud
Aston University started working with virtualization in 2004, when it kicked off its server consolidation initiative with an initial set of ten finance applications. Growing organically, this initial small environment became the start of a full-fledged private cloud initiative that was ultimately branded as the ISA Cloud Computing Service; (for more info:http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/cloud/).
As their private cloud environment grew, the IT server team led by Steve Goodman, Senior Server Engineer under the oversight of Associate IT Director, Trevor Bayliss, started to experience problems with capacity, and with their manual chargeback system, that they decided they need to resolve in order to continue their expansion.
Computacenter plc identified over $250k in waste and improved efficiency by 20% in One day
This case study is essential reading for anyone involved in virtualization strategy, managing virtual environments or controlling the virtualization budget. As its virtualized environments grew, Computacenter PLC found that it needed better tools and automation to manage the environment effectively; Storage space was becoming more scarce, administrators didn’t have the time to continually police corporate policies, and capacity planning was challenging due to lack of effective baseline information.
