Customer Profile Mazda North American Operations oversees the sales, marketing, and parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles through nearly 900 dealers. www.mazdausa.com
Challenge The Mazda North American Operations IT group wanted to reduce data center complexity and simplify operations, and provide more services to the business without adding IT staff
Solution Dell provided guidance and best practices to consolidate the fast growing IT infrastructure; Dell PowerEdge™ servers running VMware® ESX Server software, Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant, and systems management software simplify the server environment and help streamline operations
Benefit • Virtualization delivers consolidation from 80 servers down to 5, a 33 percent infrastructure reduction • Simplified server environment reduces server administration time by 38 percent, giving IT staff more time to further business objectives • Planned use of virtualization tools within the business continuity strategy will reduce disaster recovery time from days to hours
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