A Win-Win Situation

"Hyper-V is an amazing technology that can help companies confront these issues, and Dell has done a good job of providing a very solid server platform to support it.”

- Roger Johnson, Enterprise Systems Group, team leader, Crutchfield Corp.

Fast growth had pushed Crutchfield’s data center to the maximum capacity of its cooling unit. The company wanted to reduce the number of physical machines to avoid buying a new air conditioner as well as streamline server management.

By implementing Microsoft^®  Windows Server^®  2008 Hyper-V^TM  on Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  servers, Crutchfield was able to shrink its server footprint, reduce power and cooling costs, and manage its environment more efficiently.

• Run IT Better: More efficient physical to virtual conversion (minutes vs. hours); 97% faster server deployment; failover in 5 minutes or less; saving 1 day per week of IT staff time; able to optimize CPU utilization
• Grow IT Smarter: 29% reduction in server footprint; approximately 50% less data center heat output (70,000 BTUs/hr vs. 150,000); $70,000 or greater cost avoidance on new air conditioner; $50,000 estimated combined savings on hardware, software licenses and energy costs