Further, VMware Capacity Planner’s agent-less feature and Web-based analysis capabilities helped us significantly reduce the time taken to complete the assessment.” It gave us information on capacity planning, performance metrics during peak hours and other key utilization statistics. “It helped us with ‘if/then’ modeling so we could come up with the optimal solution for Mechanics Bank. “VMware Capacity Planner aided us in our deployment strategy for Mechanics Bank,” said Steve Kaplan, president of AccessFlow. These services are based on the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Methodology, a methodology for producing, validating and improving a common approach for the successful adoption, operation and management of VMware virtual infrastructure products.ĪccessFlow, a VAC Partner, recently conducted a VMware server consolidation assessment service for Mechanics Bank, one of the largest banks headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with more than $2.5 billion in assets, in which AccessFlow thoroughly evaluated Mechanics Bank’s current server infrastructure in order to create a successful virtualization strategy. VMware server consolidation assessment services leverage VMware Capacity Planner, a hosted IT capacity analysis and planning tool that enables the delivery of accelerated, more accurate and benchmarked capacity planning and server consolidation assessments. “The VMware server consolidation assessment services encapsulate best practices developed during thousands of successful enterprise customer virtual infrastructure deployments.” “For organizations looking to increase productivity, reduce complexity and improve the predictability of their IT infrastructure, server consolidation through virtualization is a compelling solution that is rapidly becoming mainstream,” said Jason Martin, vice president of VMware Professional Services. PALO ALTO, Calif., Octo– VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced the availability of a set of focused server consolidation assessment services that assess the capacity utilization of an organization’s IT infrastructure, identify opportunities for consolidation and help deliver a virtualization roadmap for effective server containment and consolidation. VMware Introduces New Services for Server Capacity Planning and Consolidation New Services Available from VMware and Global VMware Authorized Consulting (VAC) Partners Help Customers Optimize IT Resources

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