Wells' Dairy Saves Money through Virtualization
The IT department at Wells' Dairy Inc., a family-owned and managed ice cream manufacturer in the United States, is using virtualization and systems management solutions from Microsoft Corp. to support the business. By deploying Microsoft virtualization and Microsoft System Center management software, Wells' Dairy has been able to save more than $500,000 on hardware and software licensing costs.
"Our goal is to not only support but grow the business through optimal IT infrastructure and services," says Mike Kooistra, director of information services at Wells' Dairy. "We believe that a long-term vision of efficient and consolidated technologies delivers better value than short-term fixes, and will allow us to lead our industry from a business and technical standpoint."
Wells' Dairy, founded in 1913, employs more than 2,500 personnel and is based in the heartland of America in Le Mars, Iowa, known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World." The company wanted to optimize its growing datacenter operations, improve business continuity and disaster recovery, and build a more agile IT infrastructure. To do that, the Wells' Dairy IT department turned to virtualization, a technology allowing several servers to exist on a single physical piece of hardware yet run independently.
"Our goal is to not only support but grow the business through optimal IT infrastructure and services," says Mike Kooistra, director of information services at Wells' Dairy. "We believe that a long-term vision of efficient and consolidated technologies delivers better value than short-term fixes, and will allow us to lead our industry from a business and technical standpoint."
Wells' Dairy, founded in 1913, employs more than 2,500 personnel and is based in the heartland of America in Le Mars, Iowa, known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World." The company wanted to optimize its growing datacenter operations, improve business continuity and disaster recovery, and build a more agile IT infrastructure. To do that, the Wells' Dairy IT department turned to virtualization, a technology allowing several servers to exist on a single physical piece of hardware yet run independently.
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