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More than 4 million users and over 20,000 corporate customers of all types and sizes use VMware software, including 99 of the Fortune 100 companies. Deploying VMware software to meet complex business challenges such as resource utilization and availability, customers have realized significant benefits, including lower total cost of ownership, higher return on investment and improved service levels to their customers.

Accelerate your VMware implementation and mitigate risk with VMware Professional Services--VMware Consulting Services and VMware Education Services. VMware Professional Services and Pinnacle help you jumpstart your implementation, expand to new lines of business, and integrate VMware into your current processes and organizational structure. Whether you are looking to implement server consolidation, business continuity, or desktop virtualization, VMware Professional Services provides you with the on-site consulting and training courses to be successful.

Reduce Energy Costs and Go Green with VMware Virtualization

Reduce the energy demands of your datacenter by right-sizing your IT infrastructure through consolidation and dynamic management of computer capacity across a pool of servers. VMware virtualization delivers the resources your infrastructure needs and enables you to:

Reduce energy costs by 80-90%.
Power down servers without affecting applications or users.
Green your datacenter while decreasing costs and improving service levels.

Increasing Energy Efficiency with Virtualization

Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT organizations today, whether the goal is to reduce cost, save the environment or keep your datacenter running. In the United States alone, datacenters consumed $4.5 billion worth of electricity in 2006. Industry analyst Gartner¹ estimates that over the next 5 years, most enterprise data centers will spend as much on energy (power and cooling) as they do on hardware infrastructure.

Save Energy by Eliminating Underutilization and Server Sprawl

VMware customers reduce their energy costs and consumption by as much as 80-90% through virtualization. Most servers and desktops today are in use only 8-15% of the time they are powered on, yet most x86 hardware consumes 60-90% of the normal workload power even when idle. VMware virtualization has advanced resource and memory management features that enable consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more which increase hardware utilization to as much as 85%. Once virtualized, a new feature of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) called Distributed Power Management (DPM) monitors utilization across the datacenter and intelligently powers off unneeded physical servers without impacting applications and users. With VMware virtualization customers can dramatically reduce energy consumption without sacrificing reliability or service levels.

Reduce the Environmental Impact of IT

Beside the company bottom line effect, virtualization is positively impacting the environment. Gartner² estimates that 1.2 million workloads run in VMware virtual machines, which represents an aggregate power savings of about 8.5 billion kWh-more electricity than is consumed annually in all of New England for heating, ventilation and cooling.

While this is a good start, there are plenty of opportunities for saving even more energy, and money. Analyst firm IDC³ states that the un-utilized server capacity equates to approximately:

$140 billion
3 years supply of hardware
More than 20 million servers.

At 4 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually per server, these un-utilized servers produce a total of more than 80 million tons of CO2 per year. This is more than is emitted from the country of Thailand and more than half of ALL countries in South America.

Reduce Power Consumption on Corporate Desktops

Companies of all sizes are rapidly exploring and expanding their use of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which runs desktops as virtual machines in the datacenter. Customers use less energy with VMware VDI by replacing underutilized PC desktop hardware with thin clients that consume far less energy. VMware VDI also extends the expected lifespan of desktop hardware so you can replace your desktops less frequently.

VDI lets you take advantage of the high utilization and advanced capabilities of VMware's proven virtualization platform. Typically, desktop PCs are powered on for the full course of the day, whether users are computing or away from their PC. With VMware VDI, desktop computing resources are aggregated in the datacenter with much higher utilization. Virtual desktops can also take advantage of the dynamic workload balancing and distributed power management of a virtual infrastructure.

The intelligent datacenter and intelligent desktop design though virtualization delivers significant power savings to companies of all sizes. For example, Huntsville Hospital reduced energy consumption by 72% with VMware VDI. But energy savings is just one of many reasons to virtualize desktop PCs. The security, agility, and manageability that VMware VDI provides are also compelling reasons to re-think how you deploy and manage desktop PCs.

Reduce Energy Costs and Go Green with VMware Virtualization

Reduce energy costs by 80-90%.
Power down servers without affecting applications or users.
Green your datacenter while decreasing costs and improving service levels.

Join thousands of VMware customers who have reduced their energy costs while improving the flexibility and reliability of their IT infrastructure. Calculate your potential savings and environmental impact with our green calculator.

Help Pay for Virtualization with Energy Efficiency Incentives

Virtualization is a proven solution for increasing energy efficiency, and many major utility providers now offer financial incentives for virtualization projects that result in the reduction of physical servers in the datacenter. By participating in these incentive programs, you can achieve even greater financial savings with VMware virtualization solutions while significantly reducing the carbon footprint of your IT infrastructure.

Several major utility providers in the United States and Canada currently offer such incentives, including:

Dozens of other utility companies are investigating similar programs; contact your local utility provider for more information.

Energy efficiency incentives are typically paid following the completion of a qualifying server consolidation project and are based on the net reduction in kilowatt-hours that will result from the project at the rate of 8 cents per kilowatt-hour. These incentives cover direct energy savings (cooling costs are excluded) and can result in incentives as high as $300 per server.

VMware Virtualization Assessment

Learn which servers are good candidates for virtualization and see the expected return on your investment. Pinnacle can help you get a current inventory of your servers, their workloads, and utilization. We'll then identify opportunities for consolidation, model consolidation scenarios, and conduct a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis of up to 200 servers. If you require an analysis of more servers or an assessment of your business continuity, change control, service levels, security or other processes, we can tailor a virtualization assessment to meet your requirements.

As a VMware Authorized Consultant, Pinnacle has assisted a number of customers in developing a virtualization and consolidation plan. Call us today for your customized Virtualization Assessment at 1-800-311-0757.

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VMWare Product Summaries

VMware Infrastructure 3
Transform IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization

Start creating a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed virtual infrastructure suite. VMware Infrastructure 3, the InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year, virtualizes servers, storage and networks, to transform IT infrastructure into an automated, always-on computer "utility plant." More than 20,000 companies of all sizes have been able to slash the costs of IT infrastructure while streamlining the management of IT environments, and delivering better services levels to the business.

With VI3 you can:

Minimize your total cost of infrastructure ownership
Streamline IT infrastructure management
Provide mainframe class availability and reliability

What's with VMware Infrastructure:

VMware Lab Manager
Optimize your Development and Test Lab with Virtualization

Provision complex development and test environments in seconds, rather than days, with VMware Lab Manager. You'll be able to shave man-months off software development cycles through rapid, automated setup and teardown of even the most complex multi-machine environments.

With Lab Manager you can:

Rapidly set up multiple test and development environments
Provision any environment with a single click of the mouse
Reduce test lab capital and operating costs
Capture and reproduce software defects - every time
Ensure secure, flexible outsourcing

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VMware Desktop Infrastructure
Improve manageability and reduce security risks of desktop computing

With VMware Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI), companies can host individual desktops inside virtual machines that are running in their data center.applications are managed centrally at the corporate data center, organizations gain better control over their desktops.

With VDI you can:

Manage Desktops Centrally
Control Access to Sensitive Data and Intellectual Property
Provide Individual Isolated Desktops
Run Off-the-Shelf, Legacy or Custom Applications with No Modifications
Cut Desktop Deployment Time Down to Minutes Instead of Days
Deliver Full Virtual PC Experiences to End Users

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