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Success Stories
Target Corporation
“It’s not hyperbole to suggest that most of our guest shopping experiences are affected by our Microsoft Virtualization solution. That’s a good thing for Target, and it’s a good thing for our guests.”

- Brad Thompson, Director, Infrastructure Engineering, Target

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Union Pacific logo
“We would not have been able to proceed as aggressively with virtualizing our Windows production workloads without the move to Hyper-V.”

- Alan Fisher, General Director, Distributed Systems Engineering, Union Pacific

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Ford Motor Company logo
“We’ll be able to manage PC power consumption more efficiently while minimizing interruptions during the working day as a result of software updates.”

- Keith Forte, Project Supervisor, Client and Security Engineering, Ford Motor Company

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CH2M Hill logo “We can now afford to tackle our 600 field servers and are aiming to virtualize 20 percent of these computers each year. At $5,000 a server, that’s a savings of $3 million over the next three to five years.”

- Greg Barton, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Systems Group, CH2M HILL

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Kroll Factual Data logo
"Each time VMware comes out with a new virtualization product, I give it a very close look. And each time, I reach the same conclusion: there’s simply no better value on the market than Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager."

- Chris Steffen, Principal Technical Architect, Kroll Factual Data

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Hostway logo
"System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 is one place to go for everything we need. There’s no longer a need to run around to multiple tools to manage our cloud infrastructure."

- Grant Langhus, Senior Systems Administrator, Hostway

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Redynamics Asia logo
"We have just three staff members caring for our data center, whereas we would have required six to eight people without a private cloud environment, an annual cost avoidance of $150,000."

- Raymond Chou, Principal Consultant, Redynamics Asia

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Miele & Cie logo
“Even after five years of building up our VMware environment, the cost savings and integrated management tools inherent in a Microsoft solution justified a total migration to Hyper-V.”

- Egbert Fichtler, Head of IT Infrastructure, Miele

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Uni Micro logo
"Once we saw how System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 could help us increase data center automation and support a more agile development process, it was a simple decision to upgrade."

- Kristian Nese, Chief Information Officer, Uni Micro

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LINK Development logo
"Having the ability to manage all of our cloud environments—Hyper-V and VMware, Windows and Linux—from one console is very important. [It] leads to faster development and delivery of customer solutions."

- George Fouad, Infrastructure Services Manager, LINK Development

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