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  Denizbank

  DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth—but data center costs were spiraling…

  DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth—but data center costs were spiraling upward. To reduce costs and speed the delivery of IT services to the business, DenizBank first virtualized its servers by using the Hyper-V technology in the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. It then configured its data centers as a private cloud environment by using Microsoft System Center 2012. Today, DenizBank runs its entire business from a private cloud infrastructure with 64 host servers that can scale to 1,500 virtual machines. DenizBank has been able to save US$7 million through server consolidation, avoid $12 million in data center costs, and anticipates a 20 percent reduction in IT staff costs. It can deploy IT services to the business faster and provide uninterrupted availability to critical financial applications.

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  Seven-Winds

  Seven-Winds has long depended on Microsoft System Center data center solutions to monitor and support more than 2,500 customer PCs…

  Seven-Winds has long depended on Microsoft System Center data center solutions to monitor and support more than 2,500 customer PCs. However, applying security updates, creating customer reports, and performing low-level IT tasks consumed time that could be spent on billable service. To automate these and other tasks, Seven-Winds decided to upgrade to System Center 2012. It uses System Center to automate up to a week’s worth of manual tasks each month. This frees technicians to focus on higher-value work and ensures that customer computers are updated more consistently and with fewer errors. Seven-Winds can now expand its business without adding staff and can produce reports that show customers what it is doing to keep their systems running. By upgrading to System Center 2012, Seven-Winds also plans to provide private cloud consulting to enterprise customers.

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  Walsh Group

  Although The Walsh Group specializes in building big things, it wanted to shrink its data center…

  Although The Walsh Group specializes in building big things, it wanted to shrink its data center. The Chicago, Illinois–based builder of highways, skyscrapers, and subways sought to reduce server costs and make IT more responsive to the business. To do both, the IT staff jettisoned VMware virtualization software and used the Hyper-V virtualization technology included in Windows Server 2008 R2 to virtualize not only servers but PCs. It is adding Microsoft System Center 2012 to create a private cloud computing structure that will enable it to deliver more reliable IT services on demand. With virtualized computer resources and automated efficiencies, Walsh reduces IT management costs by up to US$150,000 a year, frees its IT staff from repetitive work, and lowers hardware and energy costs by 20 percent. It can be greener with cloud computing and give employees easier access to applications.

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  Inovativ

  INOVATIV, an IT service provider in the Netherlands, already used Microsoft System Center data center solutions to automate many…

  INOVATIV, an IT service provider in the Netherlands, already used Microsoft System Center data center solutions to automate many IT tasks internally and for customers. But INOVATIV and customer IT staffs still had too many manual tasks to perform—from provisioning PCs to responding to server failures—which diverted IT resources from revenue-producing activities. To go further with IT automation, INOVATIV deployed Microsoft System Center 2012 and used it to set up customer training rooms eight times faster. By eliminating a day’s worth of setup time, INOVATIV is able to add an additional day of training each week and bring in an additional US$200,000 annually in revenue. INOVATIV also uses System Center to help customers speed the provisioning of IT resources, resolve IT problems faster, and better manage their IT assets.

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  Uni Micro

  Uni Micro, a Norway-based software development firm, needed to increase its capacity to respond to…

  Uni Micro, a Norway-based software development firm, needed to increase its capacity to respond to new market opportunities. After successfully using Microsoft virtualization tools to trim operating costs and reduce its IT staff’s workload, the company seized the opportunity to adopt Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. Now, Uni Micro can use dynamic resource pooling and unified cloud management capabilities to boost business agility.

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